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Affirmative Action
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Labor Law Prof Blog
Update on Second Circuit’s New Haven Fire Dep’t Discrimination Case
About a week ago, I blogged about Ricci v. DeStefano, in which the Second Circuit affirmed per curiam a decision involving the New Haven Fire Department. The Department had decided…
The Right Coast
Was the Supreme Court in Grutter Misled About the Success of Michigan s Race-Based Admissions Policies? Gail Heriot
This is troubling. Back during the trial before Judge Bernard Friedman in Grutter v. Bollinger, Richard Lempert, Eric Stein University Professor of Law and Sociology, testified as an expert on…
Lancaster Law Blog
The Political Future of Affirmative Action
As Pennsylvania’s Primary Election approaches, one of the unexpected political issues is affirmative action. Newsweek columnist Seth Colter Walls discusses the situation in Obama’s Postracial Test. The column describes the election…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Clinton on Immigration: Why Does This Get So Little Play?
Andrea Guerrero, an attorney in San Diego and author of Silence at Boalt Hall: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action (UC Press 2002), writes here about why she supports Barack Obama…
California Employment Law Update
Television Station Did Not Discriminate Against Caucasian News Anchor
By Tony Oncidi
Hicks v. KNTV Television, Inc., 160 Cal. App. 4th 994 (2008) Bradford Hicks, a white man, was the 5:00 p.m. weeknight news anchor for KNTV. After KNTV chose not to…
Employer Law Report
Affirmative Action Plan Admissible As Direct Evidence of Discrimination
As further proof that no good deed goes unpunished, one Ohio appellate court has held that an employer’s affirmative action plan (AAP) may be used against it to prove discrimination. Strange…
The Right Coast
Norwegian Affirmative Action Program to Give Preferential Treatment to Immigrants for Government Jobs Gail Heriot
I wonder how this is going to go over with your average Norwegian:"The test program will include the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), the Directorate of Public Construction and Property, the…
Legal Profession Blog
Race And Bar Admission
The web page of the California State Bar reports that the bar has declined to provide information concerning the race of applicants for the bar to researchers who wish to…
The Right Coast
Worth knowing: it’s OK to beat up conservative students at Princeton Tom Smith
BUT SEE . . . the incident discussed below has turned out to be a hoax.Not a hate crime, just some affirmative reeducation. But of course, as is usual when…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration and Affirmative Action
Peter Brown has an interesting op-ed in the Dallas Morning News comparing immigration with affirmative action in presidential politics:Immigration is becoming for the 2008 election what affirmative action and racial…