Recent News About United Airlines
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A former employee has filed a lawsuit against United Airlines alleging wrongful termination due to religious discrimination related to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The plaintiff claims violations under Title VII and Florida's Civil Rights Act after being denied a religious exemption request considered untimely by the airline without clear communication or legal basis.
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A Chicago federal judge granted a grou p of United Airlines workers a few extra weeks to amend their complaint to try again to show how United's Covid vaccine mandate rules amounted to religious discrimination or violations of a federal genetic information privacy law.
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The lawsuit says United violated federal law by refusing to respect their requests for religious exemption to the company's Covid vaccine mandates, or by forcing workers who were granted exemptions to wear 'symbols' identifying them as unvaccinated
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The lawsuit accuses SP Plus of violating Illinois' biometric information privacy law, potentially placing the company at risk of massive payouts for using face scanning tech as part of its security strategies at its parking garages in Chicago
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A class action on behalf of United pilots who are also U.S. Armed Forces reservists said United Airlines' policy violated federal law
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The airline still might try to fly their arguments against allowing the class action at later stages of the court proceedings.
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The judge said the Chicago Department of Aviation, which employed the aviation security officers, wasn't really a law enforcement agency, so the ASOs weren't really cops.
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More than half of employers could require worker vaccinations by the end of 2021, potentially setting the stage for a surge of lawsuits, should requests for exemptions be ignored or denied.
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The Circuit Court of Cook County reported the following activities in the suit brought by United Airlines against Allied Livery Management and Kevin Foss on Aug. 6.
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Mayer Brown advised on a transaction recognized as the “Deal of the Year” in the Airfinance Journal Awards 2020.
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A class action lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County against United Airlines earlier this month for allegedly breaching a refund policy in the airline's award program, according to court documents from the suit.
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Durkin rules cancellations linked to COVID-19 orders can be covered with travel credits, despite USDOT instructions.
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Ruling allows a pilot to continue his class action accusing United Airlines of shorting employees' pay and profit-sharing participation by not paying reservists for military leave.
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The world in 2020 has introduced new challenges and exposed and aggravated existing ones.
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The Circuit Court of Cook County reported the following activity on March 3 in the suits below:
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The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the Circuit Court of Cook County on March 3. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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The Circuit Court of Cook County reported the following activity in the suit brought by Frank Santoria against United Airlines on March 3: 'Personal Injury Complaint Filed'.
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A Chicago federal judge has clipped the wings of a putative class action against United Airlines, which alleged physically or mentally impaired workers were not allowed to take less demanding jobs, saying such workers may have a case, but individually, not as a class.
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A Chicago man has filed a defamation lawsuit against American Airlines, saying he lost his job after the airline allegedly kicked him off his flight and then allegedly falsely told federal airport security officials he had been intoxicated and had expressed a bomb threat.
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Class action lawsuits under the Illinois Biometrics Information Privacy Act continue to mount following a recent Illinois Supreme Court decision. Husch Blackwell lawyers offer a look at what that could mean to you.
