Democrats in the Missouri House want to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, but their proposals have yet to be assigned to a committee for a hearing. The sponsor of the Missouri Nondiscrimination Act, state Rep. Greg ...

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Police in a western Michigan city already under scrutiny for alleged discrimination are defending their actions in the arrest of a 12-year-old black boy, saying they had to handcuff the child while they sorted out a confusing situation. Grand Rapids ...

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The Supreme Court is throwing out an Oregon court ruling against bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The justices’ action Monday keeps the high-profile case off the court’s election-year calendar and orders state judges ...

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A Missouri county legislator has said her local jail has a sexist screening policy that requires any woman wearing an underwire bra to remove the lingerie before entering the facility — a claim the sheriff and corrections department director dispute. ...

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The Supreme Court is taking on a major test of LGBT rights in cases that look at whether federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The justices said Monday they will ...

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A part-time professor who settled a lawsuit over wheelchair access at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry 11 years ago is suing the institution again for allegedly not living up to settlement terms.

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One of Jackson County’s most anticipated trials of the year was expected to begin today. But as so often happens in civil cases, cooler heads prevailed and reached a settlement. The Kansas City Council voted 7-3 last week to settle ...

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First Bank agreed to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by an HIV-positive man who alleges bank employees disclosed his confidential health information, gossiped about him and created an "abusive" work environment. The settlement is confidential, said defense lawyer William Lawson, of the Lowenbaum Partnership. The plaintiff, identified only as K.M., worked as a bank teller at First Bank's Four Seasons branch in Chesterfield.

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An April 1 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court signals a dramatic change in the rights of employers to require statutory claims of discrimination to be arbitrated rather than tried before a jury. The court’s decision in 14 Penn Plaza ...

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A significant employment law case, Douglas Daugherty v. The City of Maryland Heights, has settled, but city officials refuse to turn over the financial details of the settlement in compliance with an open records request. Daugherty sued Maryland Heights in 2003 alleging that he was wrongfully terminated from his position of police captain on the basis of age and disability. His attorney, Mary Anne Sedey (pictured), of Sedey Harper, confirmed that the parties had settled but would not disclose any details concerning the settlement. Missouri Lawyers Media made a Sunshine Law request to the city for the settlement amounts that was denied.

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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in an age-discrimination case where the legal issues were so thorny, even a seasoned high court litigator was compelled to comment. “The issues here are unbelievably complicated,” said Carter G. Phillips, a ...

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