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of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. employees who accused the company of shorting their retirement benefits by using outdated mortality estimates can proceed with their suit as a class, a New York federal judge said, ruling the court doesn't need to verify the workers' calculations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