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PHILADELPHIA – A class action lawsuit over a profit-sharing plan between employees and American Airlines Group is heading to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, after the plaintiffs’ case was dismissed by a federal judge last month.
In February of 2021, we published an Alert on the Seventh Circuit’s groundbreaking decision in White v. United Airlines, Inc., et al., in which it became the first federal appellate...
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday allowed a pilot to sue on behalf of a class of fellow American Airlines pilots over its policy of neither crediting short-term military leave in its profit-sharing plan nor paying for that leave, but limited the class to pilots.
Perspectives By James Scanlan | April 4, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT James ScanlanThere exists an essentially universal belief that generally reducing adverse criminal justice outcomes will tend to reduce (a) relative racial differences in rates of experiencing the outcomes (as commonly presented in terms of the ratio of the rate for Black individuals to that of white individuals) and (b) the proportion Black individuals make up of persons experiencing the outcomes (compared with the proportion they make up of the population). The belief underlies the calls for defunding the police that were ...