Benefits / Employment / Higher Education 

This is a blog devoted to information and developments in the areas of employee
benefits law (ERISA), employment law, and higher education law. The blog was created and
is maintained by the attorneys of the law firm of Ehrenberg Legal & Higher Ed Solutions PLLC.

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DOJ Says Title IX Should Apply to LGBTQ Rights in Education

The United States Department of Justice asserted in a memo published Monday that legal protections the Supreme Court guaranteed gay and transgender employees in the landmark Bostock decision last year extend to LGBTQ students, teachers and other education professionals.

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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Religious Bias Case

The Supreme Court refused today to review a Jehovah's Witness' unsuccessful religious bias case against a Memphis utility. Justice Neil Gorsuch lodged an inspired dissent, arguing that long-standing Supreme Court precedent on when employers may deny workplace religious accommodations should be struck down.

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McDonald’s Accused of Illegally Surveilling Employees’ Union Activities

A Service Employees International Union affiliated National Fast Food Workers Union filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board yesterday alleging that McDonald’s violated the National Labor Relations Act law by surveilling employees who participated in union-backed campaigns for higher wages.

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Court Allows Quinnipiac Lawsuit Over Shift to Remote Learning to Continue

The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut ruled earlier this week that students at Quinnipiac University can move forward with their lawsuit against the University for breach of contract and unjust enrichment over the University’s decision last spring to abandon in-person instruction because of COVID-19.

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Appellate Court Allows Professor’s Free Speech Case to Move Forward

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reinstated a free speech case lodged by an Ohio public university professor who refused to use feminine pronouns to refer to a transgender student, holding yesterday that a professor's lectures were protected by the First Amendment.

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NLRB Orders Tesla to Delete Anti-Union Tweet

The NLRB ordered yesterday that Elon Musk delete a tweet suggesting that Tesla workers would lose benefits if they unionized, finding Musk and his company illegally suppressed union organizing efforts at one of Tesla’s California plants.

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USC Settles Sexual Assault Lawsuit

The University of Southern California agreed to settle a lawsuit with 710 women who were former patients of gynecologist George Tyndall for $852 million. Tyndall was the only full-time gynecologist at the university’s student health clinic from 1989 to 2016, treating about 17,000 women. He was accused of touching students inappropriately and taking photos of students’ genitals.

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