A full federal appeals court in New Orleans broadened the scope of negative employer actions that can trigger workplace discrimination lawsuits, reversing a nearly three-decade precedent that limited the requirement to only “ultimate employment decisions.”
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in an en banc opinion Friday vacated its 1995 ruling in Dollis v. Rubin, which blocks litigants from moving ahead with discrimination cases filed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 unless they’ve experienced an “ultimate employment decision” related to hiring, granting leave, terminations, promotions, or pay.
In a lawsuit challenging a ...
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