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In Ashraf Mustafa v. Ford Motor Company, No. 24-1763, 2025 WL 2720988 (6th Cir. Sept. 24, 2025), the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit considered how Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964’s statute of limitations and pleading standards apply to...
Can A Judge Really Say African American Does Not Mean Black—And That Calling Someone “Monkey” Is Not Racist? Some race discrimination cases are very clear. However, that does not stop some judges from messing it up. The District Court actually decided that when Thomas...
Yes. Winning in front of a jury does not always guarantee victory for an employee. Imagine the celebration when nine employees, who sued for race/color discrimination and retaliation, each received a jury award of $7 million in their workplace discrimination case—only...
Do Public Employees Have First Amendment Free Speech Rights At Work? Yes, public employees have free speech rights under the First Amendment. But those rights are not unlimited when it comes to workplace conduct. Courts apply a balancing test: does the speech address...
Let’s talk about race discrimination at work. Work rules should apply equally to Black and White employees. Rules and discipline should not change based on the color of an employee’s skin. Belinda Mann gave 35 years of her life to Koch Foods. She believed her...
If your boss does something inappropriate, unfair, or just downright disrespectful, it is natural to wonder whether you can sue. After all, employees should not have to put up with bad behavior at work. But here is the hard truth: just because your employer acts badly...
Let’s say you’re a tenured law professor at a prestigious law school. You’ve got the job security with tenure that most people only dream about. But then you disrupt a student conference, yell at the dean’s assistant, publicly blast your colleagues through a faculty...
Sometimes, your own words can come back to haunt you—especially if you say the wrong thing to the EEOC. Just ask Adam Gomez. When he filed an charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) against his employer, he checked the box that said he was not...
Some employees believe that once they report race/color discrimination, they have a shield against getting fired. And they do - but only from being retaliated against for reporting the racial discrimination. But that anti-retaliation protection can quickly crumble if...
“I would never hire a white person under my watch.” “A white girl ... would never get a position under her watch.” In most employment discrimination cases, there is no smoking gun. Most employers are smart enough to hide bias behind carefully worded evaluations or...