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Employment Law Update: Fourth Circuit Reinforces ADA’s “Qualified Individual” Requirement in Remote Work Dispute

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently issued a decision in Haggins v. Wilson Air Center, LLC that offers valuable guidance for employers navigating disability accommodation requests, particularly those...more

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Resort Employee Can Proceed with Disability Suit Over Service Dog in Housing: What Hospitality Employers Should Know

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A recent federal court ruling presents a cautionary tale for employers when handling employee disability-related requests. The US District Court for the District of Utah’s January 13 decision allows the employee to proceed...more

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As Flu Season Surges, Fourth Circuit Offers Guidance on Vaccine Mandate Litigation

May an employer ask an employee about his or her vaccination status? And may the employer then take an adverse employment action based on that status? ...more

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Reminder: Section 503 Self-ID Surveys Due Every Five Years

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Federal contractors and subcontractors that meet jurisdictional thresholds may be due to re-survey their active workforces for disability status to remain compliant with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section...more

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Florida Appeals Court Decisions Week of January 26 - 30, 2026

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U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - USA v. Rodgers - Fifth Amendment, right to silence - Hughes v. Locure - § 1983, qualified immunity - USA v. Ott - sentencing - Lewis v. Fulton Cnty Sheriff - blind inmate,...more

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OFCCP Actively Investigating Complaints

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Following a temporary period of administrative abeyance in 2025 after the revocation of Executive Order 11246, DCI can confirm that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has resumed processing and...more

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Disability Accommodations and Premises Liability Claims in California

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In California, businesses need to have accommodations for people with disabilities. Businesses with five or more employees are held to a higher standard regarding disability accommodations. A disability accommodation can...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Withdrawing a Certified Medical Marijuana User’s Job Offer After a Positive Drug Test: A Cautionary Tale for Employers

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Though it has been around for nearly a decade, the Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Act continues to cause considerable confusion for employers. A recent decision helps to provide some guidance to employers about how the law...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Addressing Serial ADA Litigation Abuse in Florida and Federal Courts

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) has served as a significant achievement in civil rights law since its passage in 1990, guaranteeing individuals with disabilities equal access to public accommodations, state and...more

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EntertainHR: Sherrone Moore and the Mental Health Obligations of Employers

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I am an alumnus of the University of Michigan.  My son is a junior there.  My closest friends went to school in Ann Arbor.  So did my father-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law.  Like all who bleed maize and...more

Secretariat

The Class Action Implications of AI-Driven Decisions

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On May 16, 2025, United States District Judge Rita Lin granted a Motion for Conditional Certification of Collective Action in Mobley v. Workday, Inc. The Plaintiff alleges age, race, and disability discrimination from...more

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Fourth Circuit Continues to Define Limits of “Qualified Individual” Status Under ADA

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects “qualified individuals” with a disability from job discrimination, and imposes upon employers the duty to reasonably accommodate such individuals. But what happens when, even...more

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Fiscal Year 2025 Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Annual Report: What Employers Need to Know

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The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (“MCAD” or “Commission”) has released its Fiscal Year 2025 (“FY25”) Annual Report, covering July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025. The report reflects a year of transition for the...more

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Indefinite Leave and Remote Work? When Accommodations Are Not Reasonable

Navigating reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related state laws can be challenging for employers—particularly on the thorny issues of leave and remote work. The U.S. Court of...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

A loser of an ADA argument

Are you kidding me? Dear Readers, here is an ADA quiz. I’m not sure you’ll be able to handle it. It’s really, really hard. Your employee discloses that she has ovarian cancer that has metastasized to her liver. She...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

Motion to Compel Arbitration Was Improperly Denied

Talia Shayla Alexis Wise sued her former employer (Tesla) for disability discrimination and related claims. In response, Tesla filed a motion to compel arbitration, which the trial court denied after determining that the...more

Offit Kurman

2025 Fair Housing Trends Report: What We’re Seeing and Why It Matters

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The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) is the nation’s largest nonprofit fair housing organization, leading investigations, enforcement, advocacy, and research to advance equal housing opportunity....more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Fourth Circuit Says Refusal to Work Hybrid Schedule Dooms ADA Claim

The Americans with Disabilities Act is not an entitlement statute. This means that in order to be a qualified protected individual under the law, an employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the job, with or...more

Maynard Nexsen

Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Service Animals, the ADA, and Workplace Rights

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On this episode of Work This Way, Tina chats with fellow hosts and Maynard Nexsen attorneys Jennie Cluverius and Fay Edwards, along with a very special guest, Bing the pomsky, a service dog in training. Together, they break...more

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Service Animals in Arkansas Schools: What Every Administrator Should Know - Part Two

In a prior installment of this blog post we outlined the law that all Arkansas school administrators should know about service animals. Now we turn to a slightly less clear issue that comes up quite frequently: the...more

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German Employment Law - Top 9 Developments in 2025

The year 2025 brought a wide range of employment law decisions with major practical impact. Both the Federal Labor Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) addressed key issues on protection against...more

Bricker Graydon Wyatt LLP

[Webinar] K-12 Athletic Symposium: 2026 NIL Updates & More! - January 23rd, 9:00 am - 11:30 am ET

Join Bricker Graydon Wyatt’s K–12 Athletics Team for an Athletics Symposium! Spend more than two hours with leading school law and athletics experts—including special guest Ron Sayers from OHSAA—as we take a deep dive into...more

TNG Consulting

Practical Strategies for Expanding Civil Rights Compliance Beyond Title IX

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As the civil rights landscape evolves, many Title IX Coordinators now oversee broader areas of compliance, including Title VI (race, color, or national origin), Title VII (employment discrimination), Section 504 and the ADA...more

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New York Federal Court Says Denial of Remote Work Not Equivalent to Disability Discrimination

On January 2, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the denial of an employee’s request to continue working from home as a disability accommodation was not enough to constitute...more

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Mitchell Williams - Service Animals in Arkansas Schools: What Every Administrator Should Know (Part 1)

If you’ve ever had a parent or visitor arrive at your school event with a dog, you’ve probably found yourself asking: What are my legal responsibilities? What questions am I allowed to ask? How do I balance access, safety,...more

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