Village of Freeport v. Barrella, ____F.3d____(2d Cir. 2016), is a major case discussing whether Hispanic ancestry is a race under Title VII or 1981. As the court explained:Based on longstanding Supreme Court and Second Circuit precedent, we reiterate that “race”
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Weber of Disability Discrimination
DePaul University Law Professor Mark C. Weber has recently published important scholarship which I would like to bring to my readers' attention.
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State Judge Strikes Wisconsin’s Right to Work Law
Machinists v. Wisconsin, Case No. 2015CV000628 (Dane Co. April 8, 2016) Download Wisc Order is an important case. A state trial judge struck down 2015 Wisconsin Act 1 which was known as the right to work law. This statute prohibits…
Call For Papers-Journal Experiential Learning
Dean Patricia E. Salkin (Touro) writes to inform us of an important publishing opportunity. The Journal describes the papers they are looking for as follows:The Journal of Experiential Learning is interested in articles focused on co-teaching or co-creating educational programs…
Douglas & Douglas On The Duke Power Fable
Robert Douglas (Labor Arbitrator) and his son Jeffrey Douglas (Melzer, Lipp and Goldstein) just published an important article in the Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal which explores the erroneous analysis utilized by Chief Justice Burger in the Griggs v.…
Breaking News California Appellate Court Reverses Vergara Which Held Calif Tenure Statutes Unconstitutional
On April 14, 2016, a California appellate court reversed a lower court decision which declared several California tenure statutes unconstitutional under state law. Download Vergara Court of Appeals OpinionIn a lengthy well-reasoned opinion the court rejected a facial challenge…
Breaking News. Supreme Court Affirms Friedrichs By An Equally Divided Court
Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Friedrichs v. California Download Friedrichs Teachers Assoc., 578 U.S. ___(2016), where the Court issued a one-line opinion stating that "The Judgement is affirmed by an equally divided Court."This means that the Abood…
Non-JD Program At Hamiline Law School in Cybersecurity and Information Privacy
Gregory M. Duhl, Rolf and Nancy Engh Distinguished Professor, Mitchell Hamline School of Law writes to inform us of a new non-JD 13 week program which readers may find of interest. A description of the program is below:The thirteen-week, intensive online…
Can Labor Turn Out The Vote
Readers may be interested in this NY Times article by former NY Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse entitled Can Labor Still Turn Out The Vote. As the article states:With its shrinking ranks, organized labor, which tilts strongly Democratic, was already…