Welcome back to Defending the Algorithm - a LinkedIn newsletter from Pittsburgh law firm, Houston Harbaugh, PC, helping defense attorneys, insurance professionals, employment lawyers, corporate counsel and clients to navigate the intersection between artificial intelligence and the law. This newsletter series is specifically targeted to the defense of employment law claims against employers and their vendors and was written and edited with assistance from Claude Opus 5.0 from Anthropic and Google Gemini 3.0 Pro and with research confirmation by Westlaw Advantage AI with Co-Counsel. It is a companion to our podcast and blog series, available at: Defending the Algorithm created by Henry M. Sneath, Esq.
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In this Edition #2, we give an update on the AI-discovery battle in Mobley v. Workday, 3:23-cv-00770-RFL (N.D. Cal.) . As you may recall, this case is brought by inter alia, lead class plaintiff Derek Mobley, a man who allegedly applied to more than one hundred jobs through Workday’s hiring platform and was rejected from every one. He sued Workday, the vendor whose AI screening system, he alleges, discriminated against him due to his race, age and his claimed disabilities...
Jang, in his 40s, who also runs a beauty salon and works as an insurance planner, registered himself as a caregiver for insured A, an insurance customer, in April. Afterwards, Jang filed a documen...