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In Granger v. City of Anderson Transit System, No. 1:23-CV-01548-JPH-TAB, 2025 WL 3199889 (S.D. Ind. Nov. 17, 2025), the court, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment as to plaintiff’s sex- and race-based hostile work environment claims asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As to plaintiff’s sex-based claim, the…

Read More Despite Alleged “Bitch” Comment, Sex-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Insufficient
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In Weaver v. Shasta Servs., LLC, No. 2:25-CV-00910-MJH, 2025 WL 2977874 (W.D. Pa. Oct. 22, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s age discrimination claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). From the decision: Plaintiff brings age discrimination claims against Defendant under the ADEA and PHRA. Defendant argues that…

Read More ADEA Age Discrimination Claim Survives Dismissal; EEOC Administrative Remedy Exhausted
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In Montgomery v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers AFL-CIO (IBEW) Local 429 & Conti Corporation, No. 3:23-CV-01262, 2025 WL 3188737 (M.D. Tenn. Nov. 14, 2025), the court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s race-based hostile work environment claims asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. §…

Read More Race-Based Hostile Work Environment Claims Dismissed; Three Alleged Incidents Were Not “Severe or Pervasive”
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In Holloway v. Fort Bend Independent School District, No. 4:24-CV-2014, 2025 WL 3158133 (S.D. Tex. Nov. 12, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claim for discrimination, based on her reassignment, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the decision: To state a claim for…

Read More Title VII Race/Color Discrimination Claim, Based on Reassignment, Survives Dismissal
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In Scheppelman v. County of Berrien, No. 1:24-CV-1104, 2025 WL 3119191 (W.D. Mich. Nov. 7, 2025), the court granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim, due to the absence of vicarious liability. Initially, the court held that plaintiff sufficiently alleged a hostile work environment: Scheppelman argues that she was constructively discharged…

Read More Age-Based Hostile Work Environment Claims Dismissed; Vicarious Liability Not Sufficiently Alleged
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In Swanson v. Chapman, No. CV 24-1622, 2025 WL 3153389 (W.D. Pa. Nov. 12, 2025), the court denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s claim of retaliation asserted under Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the decision: To establish a prima facie case of retaliation under Title VII, a plaintiff must…

Read More Title VII Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment; Questioning Pace of Sexual Harassment Investigation Constituted “Protected Activity”
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In Coleman v. Telles, No. 2:24-CV-00930-APG-MDC, 2025 WL 2962786 (D. Nev. Oct. 16, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claim of age discrimination asserted under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). From the decision: The ADEA makes it unlawful to “discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation,…

Read More ADEA Age Discrimination Claim Survives Dismissal; Allegations Included “Old Timer” Comment
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In Einkorn v. UMortgage, No. CV 25-2546, 2025 WL 3023412 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 29, 2025), the court held that plaintiff did not allege a “sexual harassment dispute” within the meaning of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, 9 U.S.C. §§ 401-402 (EFAA), such that the arbitration agreement she signed precluded…

Read More Non-Sexual Conduct Was Not “Sexual Harassment”; Arbitration Agreement Enforced
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In Dranitca v. Allied Universal Sec. Services LLC, No. 150492/2025, 2025 WL 2814548 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Sep. 26, 2025), an employment discrimination case, the court discussed and applied New York Civil Practice Law and Rules 205, which governs the timeframe in which to recommence an action in one forum after being dismissed in another. Here,…

Read More Hostile Work Environment, Retaliation, Sex Discrimination Claims Not Timely Recommenced in State Court Following Federal Court Dismissal
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In Lia-Basile v. the County of Albany et al, No. 1:25-CV-0291 (GTS/MJK), 2025 WL 3019150 (N.D.N.Y. Oct. 29, 2025), the court, inter alia, granted defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claims of sex/gender discrimination asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, on the ground that she failed to exhaust her administrative remedies…

Read More Title VII Sex/Gender Discrimination Claims Dismissed For Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies at the EEOC
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