The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on May 1 won a $240 million award in a disability discrimination suit brought for 32 men with intellectual disabilities. A federal jury in Davenport, Iowa, found that Hill Country Farms subjected the men to verbal abuse and physical harassment. "The conduct that occurred here is intolerable," commission chairwoman Jacqueline Berrien said.
HEALTH CARE LAWSUIT
Objecting to what an "Obamacare power grab," a group of small business owners and individuals in six states filed suit on May 2 against the Internal Revenue Service over a rule that expands health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. They targeted health care exchanges state-level clearinghouses that are supposed to make it easier for people to buy insurance.
