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Nine service members slapped the U.S. Air Force with a proposed class action in Texas federal court, alleging that the government violated their constitutional rights by stripping their duties and denying them promotions because they refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds.

The U.S. Department of Justice told the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday that a recent Nebraska federal court ruling doesn't help Catholic organizations looking to uphold an injunction exempting religious employers from covering gender transition surgery because the trial court barred hypothetical enforcement actions and not actual policy.

General Motors told the Second Circuit not to revive a suit accusing the company of undermining a Black supervisor because of her gender and race, saying her reassignment upon returning from sick leave wasn't a demotion and couldn't be the basis for a discrimination suit.

Benefits boutique Wagner Law Group has brought back an attorney who spent the past several years working in-house for BNY Mellon Investment Management, adding his extensive experience dealing with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, securities law and banking regulations to its roster.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a former software programmer's challenge to a Ninth Circuit decision shutting down his suit accusing MetLife of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by denying him disability benefits.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Roosevelt Hotel can't stop New York City from enforcing a law requiring hotels to pay laid-off workers $500 per week while it sues to revoke the statute, saying the company has not shown its suit is likely to succeed.

A former Raytheon employee's proposed class action accuses the aerospace and defense company of misleading rehired employees about their retirement benefits and improperly reducing payments in violation of the plan terms, according to a complaint filed in Arizona federal court.

A Georgia federal judge tossed a suit Wednesday that accused American software and technology company NCR Corp. of illegally denying a retiree pension benefits, saying the former employee failed to show that the company was in charge of his retirement plan.

A former Amazon employee sued the company in Florida federal court, accusing the e-commerce giant of including "threatening language" in benefits notices to discourage ex-employees from seeking continuing health care coverage.

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