Town agrees to $150,000 gender discrimination settlement 
Published: April 19, 2012
Tags: Alabama, gender discrimination, police, sexual discrimination
An Alabama city has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by a former police sergeant who claims she’s been excluded from the department’s “good-old-boy network.”
Grad student can sue for Title IX retaliation
Published: March 23, 2012
Tags: civil rights, gender discrimination, retaliation, Title IX, Title VII
A graduate student could sue a state university for retaliating against her for complaining about gender discrimination in her doctoral program, the 9th Circuit has ruled in reversing a summary judgment.
City to settle gender discrimination suit
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: gender discrimination, New York, police, sexual harassment
The Syracuse Common Council has approved paying $375,000 to settle a federal gender-discrimination lawsuit filed in 2009 by a female officer of the Police Department.
City must pay $375,000 to settle gender-bias suit by police sergeant
Published: February 7, 2012
Tags: gender discrimination, New York, police
The city of Syracuse, N.Y. has agreed to pay $375,000 to settle a gender-discrimination lawsuit filed in 2009 by a female officer of the Syracuse Police Department.
County told to pay $7.6 million for hospital retaliation
Published: December 15, 2011
Tags: gender discrimination, hospital, Illinois, racial discrimination, retaliation
Cook County, Ill. and its former chairman of pathology have been told to pay a physician $7.6 million for retaliating against her after she filed a federal lawsuit claiming racial and gender discrimination.
Employer liable for firing transgender worker
Published: December 8, 2011
Tags: civil rights, equal protection, gender discrimination, transgender, §1983
A government employer violated a transgender employee’s equal protection rights when it fired her upon learning that she would go forward with a sex change, the 11th Circuit has ruled.
California enacts slew of employment-related laws
Published: October 27, 2011
Tags: background checks, credit checks, E-verify, family leave, gender discrimination, Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act, health insurance. GINA
California recently enacted a number of employment-related laws, including a requirement to provide health insurance during family leave and adding gender identification and genetic information as protected categories from discrimination.
Company to pay $550,000 in discrimination claim
Published: October 17, 2011
Tags: EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, gender discrimination
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Western Sugar Cooperative has agreed to pay $550,000 to settle a complaint that it discriminated against women.
Jury awards detectives $2.5 million
Published: October 6, 2011
Tags: California, gender discrimination, police, retaliation
A jury has awarded three veteran Los Angeles police detectives $2.5 million in a gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against their supervisors.
Food company to pay $2.25 million to settle sex discrimination suit
Published: September 21, 2011
Tags: gender discrimination, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, sex discrimination
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has said that Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle sex discrimination allegations at four of its plants.
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