Amanda Ottaway

President Donald Trump's pick to fill an empty seat on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Senate committee she'll take up his mantle opposing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, while the Wisconsin Bar reached a deal with a Badger State lawyer who sued over its diversity programs and a California community college professor who is opposed to DEI counted a First Amendment win. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments from the past week.

New York this year became the first state in the nation to mandate paid prenatal leave for pregnancy-related work absences, and New York City went a step further by imposing additional administrative requirements for employers in the Big Apple. Here are three things to know about the NYC regulations.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed 20 fewer lawsuits in the five months since the second Trump administration began than it did during the same time period in 2024. Here’s a look at the cases filed so far by Trump's EEOC.

A Black fired FedEx driver may not have laid out sufficient evidence to get his race discrimination and retaliation suit revived, a Second Circuit panel indicated Tuesday, with one judge saying she wasn't sure how the facts he had presented would be enough for an initial case.

The U.S. Supreme Court vacated and remanded a case from a Roman Catholic diocese in New York on Monday, bypassing for now the chance to overturn a landmark ruling that restricts First Amendment religious freedom challenges.

A recent Third Circuit decision in favor of a Christian fire department worker who wanted to grow facial hair despite the department's no-beard policy holds lessons for employers about handling religious accommodation requests. Here, Law360 looks at three of those lessons.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday reviving a straight woman's workplace discrimination suit doesn't mark a huge precedent shift, but along with other recent changes in the employment law arena, it may help set the stage for a surge in bias cases from so-called majority groups, experts say.

A federal judge struck down a presidential executive order against the law firm WilmerHale in a forceful decision, the state of Missouri fought to keep its anti-DEI lawsuit against Starbucks alive and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management laid out a blueprint for steering the federal hiring system away from what it called bureaucratic "'equity' quotas." ​​​​​​​Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments over the past week.

BG SLOTTING -- A federal judge struck down a presidential executive order against the law firm WilmerHale in a forceful decision, the state of Missouri fought to keep its anti-DEI lawsuit against Starbucks alive and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management laid out a blueprint for steering the federal hiring system away from what it called bureaucratic "'equity' quotas." ​​​​​​​Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments over the past week.

Studies show that many U.S. physicians are burned out and depressed but avoid asking for help for fear their high-stakes careers might be affected.