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The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the defeat of a Black former state trooper's suit claiming the Georgia Department of Public Safety slow-walked a misconduct investigation and denied him a promotion because of his race, ruling Wednesday he failed to identify a comparable co-worker who was treated better.
The Ninth Circuit refused Monday to upend a trial court's decision allowing a former assistant principal's free speech claims against several Washington school district officials to go forward, ruling it doesn't have the power to determine whether he was demoted for posting a political opinion on Facebook.
Food and beverage packaging company Pactiv Evergreen can't avoid a proposed class action alleging it allowed its $879.2 million employee retirement plan to be saddled with excessive fees, an Illinois federal judge ruled Thursday, finding that an ex-employee's allegations are detailed enough to move forward.
Rudy Giuliani repeatedly sexually assaulted and refused to pay a former business development director during the two years she worked for his companies, causing her to live in constant fear of the former U.S. attorney, according to a complaint filed Monday in New York state court.
Two Kroger subsidiaries violated federal labor law when they barred employees from wearing Black Lives Matter buttons at work following the murder of George Floyd, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday, finding workers banded together after the company made social advocacy a workplace issue.