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A Georgia bank dodged a former compliance officer's suit claiming she was fired after more than three decades with the company because of her sex and age, with a federal judge finding that she failed to show she was treated differently from comparable male employees.

A New York federal judge on Friday dismissed a former human resources worker's claims that she was sexually harassed while working for a metaverse real estate company, but said he needs more information before deciding whether her pay discrimination and other claims belong in court.

An Illinois federal judge gave class status to a group of about 13,500 Black workers who say they were turned away from temporary jobs at a beauty product manufacturer by three staffing agencies because of their race, noting that testimony suggests the manufacturer had a common employment policy.

A New Jersey federal judge on Friday handed a partial win to Saint Peter's Healthcare System in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing it of underfunding its retirement plan and wrongly claiming a "church plan" exemption, finding Saint Peter's meets the standard for the exception.

A Ninth Circuit panel grappled Thursday with whether rap music played at an apparel manufacturer's Nevada warehouse created an illegally hostile work environment for both men and women, hinting the case may have been prematurely tossed.

A former attorney with O'Melveny & Myers LLP has resolved his suit accusing the firm of denying him work opportunities because of his race, gender and sexual orientation and wrongfully firing him for billing too many pro bono hours, according to a California state court filing.

A California federal judge tossed a Chinese American ex-audit director's race bias and retaliation suit claiming Oracle wrongfully fired her after raising concerns about company practices, with the judge ruling she can't undo a state court's decision to compel arbitration.

The University of Southern California tentatively agreed to end a suit from a massive class of workers claiming the school allowed their retirement accounts to be saddled with high-cost and poorly performing investments, according to a California federal court filing.

The Seventh Circuit won't reopen a Black nurse's lawsuit claiming she was given a lower-paying position because of her race, saying she failed to put forward enough evidence to show that bias, and not concerns about her performance, caused her to be transferred.

A California state judge tossed with leave to amend Tesla's attempt to thwart the California Civil Rights Department's lawsuit alleging widespread anti-Black harassment at a Fremont factory, saying Wednesday that Tesla's countersuit claiming "underground rulemaking" at the agency has a "significant line-drawing problem" regarding what may constitute agency decision-making discretion.