The Ninth Circuit reverses an ERISA denial of a disc replacement surgery, holding that Cigna abused its discretion by relying on its own internal policy rather than the governing plan document, and that the district court improperly affirmed using rationales never raised during the administrative pr
The Ninth Circuit denied California’s petition for review of the FMCSA’s determination that California’s meal and rest break rules are preempted as applied to drivers of passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles, extending the preemption previously upheld for property-carrying v
The Ninth Circuit revived an asthma-based ADA accommodation claim that a California federal court had dismissed as time-barred, holding that the district court erred by failing to consider whether California’s worksharing agreement with the EEOC extended the charge-filing deadline to 300 days.
The Ninth Circuit held that a public university violated a professor’s First Amendment rights by investigating and reprimanding him for inserting a counter-statement to a recommended land acknowledgment in his syllabus.
The Ninth Circuit affirms a Central District of California grant of summary judgment to the Secretary of the Air Force on a federal civilian employee’s discrimination and hostile work environment claims, restating the demanding ‘specific and substantial’ pretext standard on circums
The Ninth Circuit applies the Groff undue-hardship test and affirms summary judgment for a regional healthcare system that denied COVID-19 vaccination religious exemptions to nine clinical employees during the Delta-variant surge.
The Ninth Circuit reverses key rulings in a long-running Jack in the Box wage-and-hour class action, restoring class claims for shortened meal breaks under Oregon law and for non-slip shoe deductions, and ordering a trial on whether overdeductions for the Oregon Workers’ Benefit Fund were will
The Ninth Circuit holds that a federal contractor’s revocation of a Security Police Officer’s Part 1046 fitness-for-duty certification is reviewable under the ADA and is not the kind of national-security clearance decision insulated from review under Department of Navy v. Egan.