Patrick Dorrian

3 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Patrick Dorrian

A federal jury will decide whether Allied University Security Services discriminated against a security guard because he’s Kurdish, from Iraq, and wore a beard in compliance with his Muslim faith. The US District Court for the Southern District of Texas cited alleged comments by the former employee’s supervisor in ordering a trial in the case. The supervisor allegedly referred to the plaintiff using a racist epithet and told him “go back to where you came from,” the court said.

5 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Patrick Dorrian

Kirkland & Ellis LLP, four partners, and a female former attorney agreed to dismiss her lawsuit alleging sex bias, retaliation, defamation, and other claims. The “entire action as to all Defendants is voluntarily dismissed with prejudice,” the parties said Friday in a filing with the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

6 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Jennifer Bennett |Patrick Dorrian

A mortgage underwriter gets another chance to rely on a recent federal law barring forced arbitration of sexual harassment claims to keep her bias lawsuit in court, a split federal appeals panel said Friday.

6 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Patrick Dorrian

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6 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Patrick Dorrian

Allegion plc and four subsidiaries must face trial on a female executive’s claims that she was harassed and fired because of her sex and for complaining about it, a Kansas federal judge ruled. The evidence of the former channel marketing and analysis director includes that her male boss was treated more favorably under similar circumstances, the US District Court for the District of Kansas said.