California’s federal courthouses were the busiest destinations for lawsuits under federal employment laws in the country in the past three years, a new report shows.
The federal court in Los Angeles, particularly, ranked as the busiest venue in the nation for federal employment lawsuits filed from 2023 to 2025, according to the new report that charted surging disability-accommodation and discrimination cases nationwide.
The 2026 Employment Litigation Report released this week by the legal analytics firm Lex Machina found that the Central District of California recorded 4,207 employment cases over that time period, or 5.6% of all federal cases nationwide. The Northern District of California was also among the top 10 venues, handling 2.3% of all the nation’s employment lawsuits.
Although litigation related to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) decreased in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal claims alleging employers failed to provide reasonable accommodations to workers with disabilities shot up 42% in 2025, the report says. In addition, employment-discrimination lawsuits reached a record 20,261 last year, with significant concentrations of such cases being filed in California.
“Employment lawsuits in California asserting claims under California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) have surged since the pandemic,” Lex Machina said in a statement emailed to the Southern California Record. “FEHA has been expanded in recent years to address emerging issues,...
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