A female bartender at Rocky Gap Casino Resort told management of being sexually harassed by a male colleague but was ignored and later reassigned to a less-trafficked bar, leaving her with no choice but to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment ...

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Catholic Relief Services withdrew health insurance coverage from a gay employee’s spouse despite having told the worker that the Baltimore-based agency’s insurance plan does not discriminate against same-sex marriages, the worker has alleged in a lawsuit filed in federal court. ...

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A fired customer service agent’s discrimination lawsuit against a Bethesda high-tech security products company might have been headed to trial if the black employee had sufficiently alleged that a supervisor’s belated Google search of a past gun incident was a ...

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A company cannot be held responsible for racist and sexist comments by co-workers so long as it takes steps “reasonably calculated” to stop the hateful banter, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in rejecting a black woman’s effort to hold ...

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A researcher’s claim of sexual harassment and retaliation by her University of Maryland supervisor will proceed toward trial against the school after a federal judge this week rejected the university’s argument that the alleged victim worked not for its medical ...

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A federal appeals court has revived a black woman’s claim the city of Laurel fired her from an administrative assistant position in retaliation for having complained of racial harassment on the job.

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Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh has joined more than a dozen other states and Washington, D.C., in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to read federal civil-rights law broadly to prohibit job discrimination on the basis on sexual orientation. “The ...

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A private security firm for the U.S. Social Security Administration in Woodlawn maintained a sexually hostile work environment and fired one of its guards who complained about it, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday. ...

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The National Institutes of Health’s security firm systematically harassed and discriminated against employees born in Africa, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. Since 2013, MVM Inc. has subjected ...

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Do any of you judges and lawyers out there have a favorite all-time oral argument?

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