Case: Discrimination/Hostile Work Environment (N.D. Ind.)

An Indiana federal district court granted summary judgment to Northern Indiana Public Service Company on hostile work environment claims, finding that a coworker’s comments weren’t severe or pervasive ...
HR Dive

Same-race bias, unbalanced DEI training: 4 lessons from recent Title VII cases

During last week’s National Employment Law Institute briefing, attorneys touched on how employers have messed up — or been saved — by their understanding of the law.
Law

Misconduct Watchdog Says Judge's Disparaging Remarks Created Hostile Work Environment

A judge in south central New York should be censured on a charge that he fostered a hostile work environment, the state judicial misconduct watchdog said on Tuesday. Binghamton City Court Judge Daniel ...
Law

Who Knew—and When? $1.6M Hostile-Work Environment Verdict Tossed

The Appellate Division overturned a municipality's $1.6 million verdict against a municipality. Claims based on a mental health-related disability were improperly awarded based on events occurring ...
JD Supra

Can DEI Training Create a Hostile Environment?

The Second Circuit’s recent reversal of summary judgment, reviving a claim by a Caucasian educator that mandatory DEI training created a hostile work environment at the New York City Department of ...
Reason

First Amendment Limits on Workplace Harassment Liability, in Claim of Anti-Semitic Harassment at CUNY Hunter College Following October 7 Attacks

I've long been interested in what limits the First Amendment imposes on "hostile work environment harassment" law (as well as the similar rules as to education, public accommodation, and housing); I ...
JD Supra

Employers See Wins in Title VII Suits Over DEI Trainings

Employers have recently prevailed in several cases across the country in which plaintiffs attacked diversity training and other DEI-related initiatives in the workplace. Decisions have indicated that ...
Inside Higher Ed

DOJ Sues UC System, Alleging ‘Hostile Work Environment’ for Jews at UCLA

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The Justice Department sued the University of California system Tuesday, alleging it has tolerated ...
VTDigger

Lawsuit accuses a Putney therapeutic school of creating hostile work environment

A former employee is suing The Greenwood School in Putney for allegedly permitting sexual harassment and discrimination and breaching an implied contract. The trial date has been set for March 1, 2026 ...
Reason

Title VI Hostile Environment Law in the Shadow of Antisemitic Violence

My latest article, Title VI Hostile Environment Law in the Shadow of Antisemitic Violence, forthcoming in the Journal of Free Speech Law, is now available to download. The article is forty pages long, ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

BUSINESS LAW: Hostile work environment

In order to establish her claims of a sexual based hostile work environment by non-supervisory co-workers, a female employee needs to show that she was subjected to unwelcome sexual harassment and ...

Case: Discrimination/Hostile Work Environment (D. Conn.)

A Connecticut federal court denied the Town of Newington’s motion to dismiss Title VII and state law hostile work environment claims by a female firefighter who plausibly alleged sex discrimination ...