His doctors cleared him to return to work. The railroad kept him away from moving trains for five years. TL;DR: A federal appeals court upheld summary judgment for an employer that barred a railroad conductor from returning after a stroke because of the risk of a future seizure. Although the

The employee asked for help completing his work. Months later, the unfinished work became the reason for firing him. TL;DR: A federal appeals court rejected an employee’s intentional disability discrimination claim because the decisionmaker did not know about his disabilities. But it revived his failure-to-accommodate claim because HR and the

Browse the headlines about DEI-training backlash lawsuits and they usually go one way: a white employee gets offended and sues over it. This one, initiated by the EEOC, ain’t that at all. TL;DR: The EEOC has sued a St. Louis university, alleging it retaliated against a Black senior program manager