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Earlier today the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit against Walmart Inc. over allegations that the company forced pregnant employees at a “Wisconsin warehouse to go on unpaid leave and denied their requests to take on easier duties.” The EEOC is an agency responsible for enforcing laws meant to protect employees in the workplace from discrimination, including pregnancy discrimination. According to reports from the agency, a Walmart “distribution center in Menomonie, Wisconsin, has discriminated against pregnant employees since 2014.” As a result, the EEOC claims the company violated federal laws that “requires employers to accommodate workers’ pregnancies in the same way as physical disabilities.”

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A former Southwest Airlines employee is suing the regional carrier, saying his coworkers created a ‘whites-only’ breakroom at a Houston airport. The supposedly segregated breakroom—known by employees as the ‘W.B.’—had allegedly been around for years. Plaintiff Jamel Parker says the company knew about the room at William B. Hobby Airport and tolerated its existence. “Although

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Nashville’s Metro Council approved a $130,000 civil rights settlement on Tuesday, ending a lawsuit that began with a 2011 arrest. Andrea Miller’s settlement with former Metro Nashville police officer Woodston Maddox brings one of the city’s largest civil rights settlements in recent history. The agreement awards Miller $50,000 in damages and reimburses ‘reasonable’ attorneys’ fees

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Attorneys for the monthly magazine Prison Legal News have taken their First Amendment lawsuit to the Supreme Court, arguing that corrections officials are unfairly barring inmates from accessing the publication. The magazine filed a petition last week, asking the Supreme Court to hear its case against the Florida Department of Corrections. Florida, says Prison Legal

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Hurricane Florence tore through North Carolina last week and left everything in its wake in shambles. Unfortunately, the devastating flooding that the storm brought has placed a lot of strain on hog lagoons, causing some to “release pig waste into the environment,” while others are “at imminent risk of doing so,” according to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. So far an estimated 110 lagoons have leaked waster or are at risk of doing so soon.

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Michigan Supreme Court Won't Hear Appeal in Weekley Case

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Attorney Suspended After Placing a Tracking Mechanism in Ex-girlfriend's Car

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Remember the recall for Cargill ground beef last month? Well, earlier this week, Cargill Meat Solutions announced a new recall of 132,606 pounds of ground meat as a result of a deadly e.coli outbreak. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), an estimated 18 people have fallen ill as a result of the E.

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Ruling in on tips, a U.S. appeals court determined that restaurants must pay bartenders and waitstaff minimum wage when they’re doing work that’s not related to their primary positions. Exemptions to what would have been considered gratuity-based compensation include cleaning toilets and washing dishes. The decision, brought by an 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S.

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Despite the Trump administration’s insistence on an immigrant-driven crime wave, the government has been arresting many migrants with no criminal record at all. NBC News reports that the phenomenon has been picking up its pace in the past year. Even as the president draws attentions to atrocities like the killing of 20-year old Iowan Mollie

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