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The Fourth Circuit won't revive a former clinical manager's lawsuit alleging a home healthcare company refused to let her skip fieldwork because of arthritis in her knees, ruling Wednesday she'd failed to show that eliminating that job duty was reasonable amid a pandemic-fueled staffing crisis.

Tesla can't pause the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's suit alleging the carmaker allowed a California factory to be overrun with racist remarks and graffiti, the agency told a federal court, saying Tesla is trying to deflect by asserting that the EEOC's action is duplicative of two other lawsuits.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation must face a former employee's lawsuit claiming she was denied adequate space to pump breast milk after returning from maternity leave, as a federal judge rejected the state agency's assertion that her allegations were too thin to stay in court.

General Electric Co. can't avoid a suit claiming it violated federal benefits law by reneging on severance agreements signed by two wind farm workers, a Kansas federal judge said, rejecting the company's assertion that the ex-employees should've internally appealed the severance pay denial before filing suit.

West Point Academy urged a New York federal court not to bar it from considering race in its admissions process, arguing its guidelines are intertwined with the country's military readiness and distinct from civilian university policies struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year.

The Eleventh Circuit refused on Wednesday to reopen a Black former Alabama librarian's lawsuit alleging she was denied promotion and fired for complaining to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about a Confederate celebration, ruling she provided no evidence that bias affected her termination.

A deal ending a class action led by a transgender University of Arizona professor who claimed that Arizona's state employee health plan unlawfully denied coverage for transition-related surgery has been approved, with a federal judge ignoring objections from Republican leaders of the state Legislature.

A group of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. employees who accused the company of shorting their retirement benefits by using outdated mortality estimates can proceed with their suit as a class, a New York federal judge said, ruling the court doesn't need to verify the workers' calculations to grant class certification.

A participant in a $26 billion American Airlines 401(k) plan told a Texas federal court the airline violated federal benefits law by offering funds managed by BlackRock, arguing in a proposed class action that the investment management giant puts more emphasis on environmental, social and governance factors than financial performance.

Hilton Worldwide Inc. asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a D.C. Circuit decision reopening a class certification bid from workers alleging the hotelier's retirement plan unlawfully denied them benefits, arguing the appellate court blew past a strict time limit for challenging class certification decisions.