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After a boost in the early days of the pandemic, wage-and-hour and employment-discrimination lawsuits are currently taking the back burner, according to new data obtained by The Texas Lawbook.

New data from Androvett Legal Media shows that wage-and-hour suits filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act have been steadily declining since the first half of 2020, which had seen a 19% increase from pre-pandemic days. FLSA lawsuits filed in all four Texas federal court districts dropped nearly 38% between the first half of 2020 and the second and 36% from the last six months of 2021 to the same period the year before. For the full year, FLSA suits filed in 2021 were down 25% from 2020.

Federal employment-discrimination lawsuits filed in Texas under Title VII were also down, according to the Androvett data, with a 3.5% drop in 2021 from 2020 and a 14% drop from the 755 cases filed in 2018, the year most employment discrimination suits were filed in the last five years.

Legal experts attribute the activity drop to multiple factors, including the pandemic, recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and the backlog of government agencies that oversee the litigation.

The nuanced factors within the pandemic, in particular, tell their own story with the numbers. FLSA lawsuits spiked in the early months of the pandemic as many companies were forced to...

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