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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Women Employees Over 55 Face Dual Threat from Covid-19 Layoffs
By Tracy Thomas
Older Female Employees Face Double Jeopardy During Covid-19 LayoffsAccording to AARP employment data, women over the age of 55 face a dual threat to their careers and earning power amid the…
PrawfsBlawg
Kennesaw Mountain Landis and the Monument Moment (Updated)
Main Wednesday, July 01, 2020Kennesaw Mountain Landis and the Monument Moment (Updated)Northwestern-Pritzker School of Law (where, full disclosure, I attended law school) displays a portrait of Kennesaw Mountain Landis, a…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Legitimacy of Agency Implementation of Title IX
By Tracy Thomas
Samuel Bagenstos, Legitimacy and Agency Implementation of Title IX, 42, Harvard J. Law & Gender (2020) Because Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 involves a subject that remains highly…
Association Alert
Rules that Target Children Really Target Your Association (for Discrimination Lawsuits)
Does your Association have rules that target children? Does your Association have rules that apply differently to children and adult residents within the community? The following case is a cautionary…
Labor & Employment Report
Selecting Employees for Recall or Rehire
In the COVID-19 recession, many employers made reductions in force en masse, thus avoiding selection decisions that might be challenged as discriminatory. If the same employers recall or rehire employees…
Simple Justice
An Homage To Freedom and Discrimination in America
The word has become one of the cultural touchstones. Discrimination. Bad. Evil. Wrong. Everybody says so. Most don’t get it, and this is by no means a mistake of one…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Causation Problem of “Because of Sex” in the Trio of Supreme Court Cases on Title VII, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation, and a Proposed Solution
By Tracy Thomas
Shirley Lin, Aimee Stephens and Preserving Our Broader Understandings of Sex, JURISTJust last week, we were saddened by the loss of Aimee Stephens at age 59. Ms. Stephens was a Detroit funeral…
California Employment Law Update
May 2020 California Employment Law Notes
By Tony Oncidi
We invite you to review our newly-posted May 2020 California Employment Law Notes, a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law. The highlights include:…
California Employment Law Update
Court Should Not Have Dismissed Self-Represented Employee’s Claims
By Tony Oncidi
Nuño v. California State Univ., 47 Cal. App. 5th 799 (2020) Anthony Nuño, an assistant college professor, represented himself in this lawsuit against California State University, Bakersfield, in which he…
Archer Estate & Trust Litigation Law
Will the Judiciary Re-Write the Rules for Retainers in Fee-Shifting Cases?
Balducci v. Cige, 240 N.J. 574 (2020) A former client filed an action against her former attorney for a declaratory judgment that the retainer agreement with him to represent her…