Since 1973, federal courts reviewing claims of employment discrimination have used a framework first established by the U.S. Supreme Court’s McDonnell Douglas decision. Under this framework, ...

Last July, former General Electric Co. engineer Hemant K. Mody convinced a federal jury that the Fairfield, Conn.-based conglomerate was engaging in illegal age, race and national origin ...

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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation launched a class-wide discrimination challenge on Thursday to a new Office of Personnel Management (OPM) policy that eliminates health-insurance coverage for most ...

The time for employers to consider their options is now: The day of weight discrimination as a legal matter is only dawning. Within 5-7 years, it will likely have grown to a meaningful number of ...

Four years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled narrowly in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, the justices are preparing to take up a potentially more ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today affirmed the rights of students with disabilities to access their education, ruling that they do not need to prove “bad faith or gross misjudgment” to pursue ...

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