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Discrimination
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Religion Clause
Catholic Agency Sues Michigan Over Adoption Agency Non-Discrimination Policy
As previously reported, last month Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that the state has entered into a settlement agreement that calls for the state to enforce non-discrimination provisions in…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Fitting LGBTQ Discrimination into the Larger Framework of Sexism
By Tracy Thomas
Anthony Michael Kreis, Policing the Painted and Powdered, 41 Cardozo L. Rev. (forthcoming) Is homophobia also sexism?This question was the focus of pioneering scholarship nearly three decades ago and has been…
Jeffrey J Kmoch Blog
Illinois Appellate Court Resurrects IDHR Discrimination Claim
In Lau v. Abbott Labs, 2019 IL App (2d) 180456 (Ill. App., Apr. 2, 2019), the Appellate Court of Illinois 2nd District, reversed in part the trial court’s grant of…
Jeffrey J Kmoch Blog
Illinois Appellate Court Resurrects IDHR Discrimination Claim
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Jeffrey J Kmoch Blog
Illinois Appellate Court Resurrects IDHR Discrimination Claim
In Lau v. Abbott Labs, 2019 IL App (2d) 180456 (Ill. App., Apr. 2, 2019), the Appellate Court of Illinois 2nd District, reversed in part the trial court’s grant of…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
WIRTW #547 (the “new music Friday” edition)
Jenny Lewis just released the first great album of 2019. On The Line has witty and funny, yet touching and sad, lyrics, and beautiful melodies that will stick in…
The Faculty Lounge
The Supreme Court’s Chance to Eliminate Anti-Gay Juror Bias
The United States Supreme Court is expected to conference on Charles Rhines’s petition for certiorari on April 12, 2019. Rhines is a gay man on death row in South Dakota.…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Video Lecture re: France Replacing the Word “Race” in its Constitution with “Sex,” Adopting an ERA
By Tracy Thomas
Emmanuelle Saada, Video, "Without Distinction . . . of Sex": The Constitutional Politics of Race and Sex in Contemporary FranceThis lecture provides an analysis of the French parliamentary debate in…
Religion Clause
Canadian Tribunal Finds Anti-Transgender Election Pamphlet Amounts To Illegal Discrimination
In Canada, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal last week held that a Christian activist violated the province's Human Rights Code when he circulated a pamphlet attacking a candidate for…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
New Jersey’s New #MeToo Law and Possible Salutary Impacts on Workers’ Compensation
As the old saying goes, a person is capable of not understanding a great deal when his or her paycheck is caught up in the not understanding. So I fully…