Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Kidney Failure Keeping You From Peeing in a Cup? The Feds Can Lend a Hand.

Filing a federal employment discrimination lawsuit is easy. All you need to offer up a not-transparently bullshit claim that you were discriminated against because of race, gender, age, disability, et cetera, is a right-to-sue letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and to pay your f ... More >>

Texas Moms Kept From Breastfeeding in Public Could Soon Have the Right to Sue

Michelle Hickman, a Houston-area mother, became Internet famous in late 2011 when she was harassed by Target employees for publicly breastfeeding her infant. That happened despite Target's breastfeeding-friendly corporate policy and a 18-year-old state law that gives women the right to nurse "in any ... More >>

Wal-Mart Wins Texas Lawsuit Over Gender Discrimination

Nearly a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court tossed a class action lawsuit filed by some 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees who say they hit a corporate glass ceiling, the plaintiffs hit a brick wall in Texas. Because the court ruled the women of Wal-Mart could not sue as a class, a num ... More >>

DART Worker Claims She Was Fired for Reporting Discrimination. DART Has a Different Story.

In 2008, Rebecca Williams sued DART. She worked in the agency's human resources department at the time, and said that she had been ordered by her boss to hire only Hispanics, as she told WFAA at the time. She was subsequently fired in what she says was an act of retaliation for blowing the whistle o ... More >>

Irving-based ExxonMobil's Allegedly Ageist Pilot Retirement Policy Survives Federal Challenge

A six-year court battle waged by the feds against an ExxonMobil policy mandating the retirement of all corporate pilots at the age of 60 was dealt its second defeat in a Dallas federal court. The challenge, filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, characterized the policy as ageist and ... More >>

Former Dallas Deputy Chief of Police Who Resigned Amid Controversy Accused of Sexual Harassment As Fairview Chief

Trouble seems to follow Fairview Police Chief Granver Tolliver wherever he goes. Back when he was a Dallas cop, soaring through the ranks to deputy chief, he became mired in an internal controversy over a vehicle accident in 1996. Department brass accused him of favoritism and of pulling the strings ... More >>

Meet the Allegedly Drunk, Cheap, Dickish Salon Owner Who Great Clips Has Had Enough Of

Update at 5:26 p.m.: Just kidding. Great Clips sends word that they are in the process of dismissing the lawsuit. "We have come to an amicable resolution with Mr. Ross," the company said in a statement. You may not have noticed, but the hair-styling landscape in Dallas is shifting beneath your feet ... More >>

IHOP Sued For Employment Discrimination By Fired Muslim Managers

In pancake-related news that's already gone national, four Muslim men of Arab descent are suing IHOP, claiming they were all fired from their managerial positions at DFW-area locations because of their ethnicity and religion. In the suit, filed Tuesday in federal court, Hussein Chamseddine claims ... More >>

Ex-UNT Prof's "Indecipherable" Discrimination, Retaliation Suit Gets Tossed With Prejudice

Tiffiney Barfield-Cottledge, formerly a criminal justice professor at UNT Dallas, filed a handwritten, pro se civil rights suit against the University of North Texas in 2010 for discrimination and retaliation after she didn't get picked for a few faculty positions, allegedly because she's black. Ch ... More >>

UNT Prof's Discrimination Suit Might Get Tossed ... For Going After Wrong School

​In a 2010 lawsuit filed in federal court, Dr. Tiffiney Barfield-Cottledge claimed the University of North Texas lobbed her application for a faculty position into the dustbin because she's black. And because they were retaliating against her for allegedly griping to the media. In recompense, ... More >>

DISD Teachers, Custodians Hold Candlelight Vigil In The Rain To Protest Job Cuts

Photo by Anna MerlanRena Honea​Undaunted by last night's cold drizzle, around 30 Dallas ISD teachers, custodial workers and other support employees held a quiet march and candlelight vigil outside 3700 Ross Avenue. The reason? DISD's budget-cutting plan to outsource custodial services and HVAC ... More >>

Southwest's Flight Attendants Accept Pilot's Apology For His Open-Mic Rant

​One week ago today, the union representing Southwest Airlines' flight attendants threatened to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after it became public that a pilot had taken to the airwaves to broadcast his ... let's say ... dissatisfaction with the quality of the ... More >>

Southwest's Flight Attendants Are Furious Over Pilot's Comments and Carrier's Response

​Perhaps you've heard: Back on March 25, a still-unidentified Southwest Airlines pilot was somewhere over the great state of Texas when he decided to use his open mike to review the Love Field-based carrier's flight attendants. Said the fellow, all he could find on his route were "11 fucking over- ... More >>

Female Officer Files Federal Suit Alleging Sexual Harassment, Retaliation At Dallas PD

​In a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court against the city of Dallas, an 18-year employee of the Dallas Police Department alleges that she's been sexually harassed by a sergeant, ignored by the chain of command and retaliated against by fellow officers for filing complaints. Casandra Jo ... More >>

Stormy Weather: Court of Appeals Resurrects Dallas PD Officer's Claims of Retaliation

​This is how the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit summarizes the events that led to Dallas Police Officer Stormy Magiera filing a discrimination lawsuit against the city in early 2006, six years after she was hired:On May 21, 2005, Magiera responded to the sound of a gunshot being fired ... More >>

DPD Crime Scene Detective Sues City, Claims Selection Committee Segregated Minorities

Morrey TaylorRoosevelt Holiday​Back in August of '08, Sam wrote about the case of the Dallas Police Department's Roosevelt Holiday, who claimed at the time that he'd been pushed out of his job as a crime scene detective by higher-ups who didn't like the color of his skin. Holiday, who's black, ini ... More >>

Thirteen Sue City Over Racial Discrimination; City Denies "Years Old" Allegations

It's been too long since we've seen Dallas Water's mascot, Perry the Pipe​A couple of hours ago, Rudy Bush posted a lawsuit 13 Dallas Water Utilities employees have filed against the city, in which they allege all manner of racial discrimination. According to the docs, the litigants -- who are eit ... More >>

Weight of Evidence

Police detective alleges discrimination and cronyism pushed him out of elite unit

Ask a Mexican

A ban on Spanish at work? Probably legal. Certainly dumb.

Razzoo's Owes the Government a Million Dollars. That's a Lotta Tips.

Don Hill Slides From Mayoral Candidate to Alleged Criminal

How did that happen?

Roy Tarpley Returns, This Time to Sue the Dallas Mavericks

Not Enough Flair, Looks Like

Color Code

Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle's honeymoon is about to end, if white, black and Latino officers have anything to say about it

Smoke From DPD

It ain't because they're electing a pope

Shot in the Dark

DISD security officer files lawsuit claiming discrimination

Cops on Campus

Forget detention. DISD means business with its new beefed-up police force—bad business, say some employees.

Buc-bucaw

Fort Worth Weekly reporter files workplace discrimination complaint

Coming of Age

Sheriff's office busted for age discrimination

Hell Hath No Fury

The good ol' boys at Rent-A-Center raise a white flag--they're licked

Where the Boys Are

It's a man's world at Plano-based Rent-A-Center, a lawsuit alleges

Happy Nappy Girls

Getting their hair straightened for the first time was a rite of passage. But a group of Dallas women has found freedom in reclaiming nappier days.

Touching Story

Businessman Jim Blythe lends a hand in the wrong places, employees say

Black, white, and blue

Dallas' African-American cops say they are being unfairly disciplined by a racist department. The numbers suggest they're right.

Fighting fire with fire

Twenty years after Sherrie Wilson became Dallas' first female firefighter, she discovered the department's hiring practices were discriminatory. When she tried to do something about it, she got burned.

Equal work, unequal pay

Two former Dallas prosecutors say that's what they suffered

The Jones Boys

How a troupe of button-down Dallas lawyers breathed life into Jones vs. Clinton and found themselves the nation's most unlikely feminist heroes

Rambo Justice

Are bad-boy lawyers Bill Brewer and John Bickel building a bridge to Dallas' minority communities, or trying to sell them one?

Static Quo

The City of Dallas could make a fortune from WRR-FM. But powerful friends don't want anything to change at their little radio station.

The power of the picket

It doesn't pay to cross Daisy Joe

BeloWatch

Lovers no more

Tonjua Benge and Carlos Minor launched a torrid affair while truck drivers at D/FW Airport. Now they're accusing each other of terminal harassment.

'They wanted to destroy me'

The truth about a troubled teacher--and why DISD deserves the blame

Mixed memories

A visit from columns past