Microsoft is a defendant in a class-action suit brought by women who worked at the company between 2011 and 2016. The 8,630 female engineers and IT specialists are asking for between $100 million and $238 million in back pay as well as damages for 508...

T Some of the nation's largest companies do their advertising for jobs on Facebook with indications that they want to reach the 18-38 age group. T-Mobile stated so in its ads on Facebook. Amazon also placed ads and put numbers on the ads telling...

A man who is both deaf and blind wanted to see the movie Gone Girl which was playing at a theater near his house affiliated with Cinemark. That company owns 335 theaters in forty-one states. The man, Paul McGann, was able to experience movies with the...

The legal issue of access of the blind to websites has been percolating on a case-by-case basis since 2000. For example, the National Federation of the Blind sued Target in 2006 for the company’s failure to accommodate screen reading technology...

Two lesbian members of the Pepperdine University female basketball team who were in a romantic relationship sued the school in 2014. They claimed harassment, discrimination, and privacy infringement by the basketball coach and other staff of the Athletic...

p James Damore, a young engineer who worked for Google was fired for circulating a memo (which eventually went public and viral) that raised issues and questions regarding the reasons Google and the Silicon Valley were struggling with gender diversity...

The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari [authorization to argue a case before the high court] to a case that pits two constitutional rights against each other - religious freedom and equal protection of the law. For a case to get certiorari...

In Franciscan Alliance, Inc. v. Burwell, several religious health care organizations and eight state attorneys-general brought suit challenging the implementation of a new rule from the Department of Health and Human Services. Under the rule (45 C.F.R...

It is fair to say that Donald Trump is not a fan of Alec Baldwin’s Saturday Night Live parody of the President-Elect. On the November 19, 2016 show, Baldwin portrayed Trump as ill-prepared for his new job. In response, Trump tweeted, “I watched...

A McDonald’s franchisee in Bentonville, Arkansas has settled a lawsuit brought by an employee who claimed he was terminated because he was HIV-positive. The firing occurred just days after the worker informed his shift manager of his condition....

< p> What happens when technology for ad targeting bumps into federal housing laws? You get a letter from congress. Facebook responds that multicultural targeting of ads is something everyone in the industry does. Jessica Guynn, “Lawmakers...

Facebook has a policy on removing hate speech from its site. Over the past year, some Facebook employees have been arguing that Donald Trump’s posts about banning Muslims from entering the U.S. should be removed because they violate the site’s...

Two years ago, Facebook began offering its in-house recruiters 1.5 points for a diversity hiring in engineering. In-house recruiters got 1.5 points for hiring a black, Hispanic, or female engineer. The Wall Street Journal reported that the needle on diversity...

A committed Donald Trump fan claims she was ousted from a Mexican restaurant because of her presidential candidate preference. She entered the Cancun Inn Restaurant in Sugarloaf, NY, approximately 60 miles north of Manhattan, wearing a “Make America...

A couple seeking to marry must first obtain a marriage license. To get the document, the husband and wife to-be are required to establish that neither is married to someone else. The government offices that issues marriage licenses are the county clerk...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision, Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities, _____ S. Ct. _____, 2015 WL 2473449 (20 15), is an important real estate law case. The case changes the standards for housing discrimination cases...

The Florida Human Rights Commission (state agency charged with enforcing discrimination laws) has determined that the Walt Disney theme park is discriminating against children with disabilities. In October 2013 Disney changed its practices relating...

Abercrombie and Fitch (A&F) was sued for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a law that strives to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. The case [1] involves the porch-like structure that serves...

The New York State attorney general has sued Evans Bank, a regional lender in western NY, claiming it discriminated against African-Americans by denying them mortgage loans. This type of loan is given for the purpose of buying land, a house and/or other...

The pictures tell the story – a great many married couples met at work. From Barack and Michele Obama to Bill and Melinda Gates to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, romance befalls many at work, whether they are working at a software company, a law...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Xerox was basing its hiring decisions for its call centers on experience, but that hiring model resulted in high attrition rates. Often, the call center employees did not stay long enough for Xerox to recoup the $5...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (a federal law that outlaws many types of discrimination) requires places of public accommodation (establishments open to the public such as restaurants, hotels and stores) to treat customers equally regardless of race, color...

Dunkin’ Donuts, known for its Box o’ Joe and those yummy fried cakes, is being sued for discrimination against minority franchisees. Plaintiffs claim that the company assigns white franchise owners prime locations in upscale areas and allocates...

Microsoft just sent around a reminder in its quarterly ethics code update on employee drinking at Microsoft parties. The reminder about office-party behavior springs from a suit by a former Microsoft executive that is winding its way, embarrassingly,...

No one doubts that the use of the N-word (for purposes of clarification only, the N-word is “***”) by a white person towards a black person is a major insult and totally inappropriate. There has been some confusion about the propriety of the...