Boeing quality engineer Sam Salehpour, from left, Ed Pierson, executive director of The Foundation for Aviation Safety and a former Boeing engineer; Joe Jacobsen, aerospace engineer and technical adviser to the Foundation for Aviation Safety; and Shawn Pruchnicki, professor of integrated systems engineering at The Ohio State University, are sworn in before a Senate committee Wednesday. AP Photo/Kevin Wolf

Boeing put under Senate scrutiny over safety culture

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Sanction upheld for firm that faked expert discovery

The Supreme Court unanimously revived a sex discrimination lawsuit Wednesday filed by a St. Louis police sergeant after she was forcibly transferred, making it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another against their will to pursue job discrimination claims.

Ruling eases way to sue for job bias in forced transfers

A state appeals panel has given the Cook County Sheriff’s Office a weapon to fight the onslaught of at least 60 lawsuits challenging the decisions of an illegally constituted merit board.The 1st District Appellate Court late last month published its ruling in Lopez v. Dart, et al., 2018 IL App (1st) 170733, as an opinion, withdrawing the Rule 23 order it issued in the case in late August.The appellate court’s decision in Lopez limited the scope of Taylor v. Dart, 2017 IL App (1st) 143684-B, in which that 1st District panel …

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