May 8, 2023
A federal judge in California has tossed out a lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc. of discriminating against workers with disabilities by requiring employees to report to the office and put in long hours working at high intensity. U.S. District Judge Haywood …
November 4, 2022
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The family of a Black fifth grader in Utah who died by suicide last year plans to file a $14 million lawsuit against her school, arguing that an inadequate response to reports of her being …
July 26, 2022
A federal judge said Uber Technologies Inc. did not violate a federal law protecting people with disabilities by not offering wheelchair-accessible vehicles in every market the ride-sharing company serves. In a decision on Monday, Chief Judge Richard Seeborg of the …
February 20, 2020
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has agreed to provide captions for more of its publicly available online videos as part of a settlement announced Tuesday in a case that accused the school of discriminating against people who are …
December 6, 2012
Attorneys for Texaco Inc. argued Monday that no evidence showed the oil company was responsible for ailments of children born to five women who claimed they were exposed to leaded gasoline fumes. Texaco, now part of Chevron, asked the Mississippi …
November 18, 2011
San Bernardino County has reached a $770,000 settlement with four plaintiffs and attorneys who filed a federal lawsuit claiming its 13 courthouses were inaccessible to disabled people. A five-year rehabilitation schedule for each courthouse will provide access improvements to public …