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California Employment Law Update
Another Day, Another $31 Million Employee Verdict From a Los Angeles Jury
By Tony Oncidi
On Tuesday, a Los Angeles jury did what L.A. juries do so often these days -- they awarded tens of millions of dollars to an ex-employee who claimed she had…
The EPL Advisor
Neutral Hiring Practices Can Still Result in a Valid Discrimination Claim
Under the theory of “disparate impact,” even facially neutral policies can result in claims of discrimination when a “protected group” suffers a statistical disadvantage vis a vis another group (i.e.,…
Workforce Bulletin
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Baker in LGBT Discrimination Case
By Amanda M. Gómez, Kate B. Rhodes, Aimee Wildstone
On June 4, the Supreme Court voted 7-2 in favor of a Christian Colorado baker and owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who had refused to create a custom wedding cake for…
PrawfsBlawg
Book Recommendation: Bisom-Rapp & Sargeant’s Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce
Main Friday, June 15, 2018Book Recommendation: Bisom-Rapp & Sargeant’s Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce Susan Bisom-Rapp (Thomas Jefferson, USA) and Malcolm Sargeant (Middlesex University, London, UK) wrote a…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
CFP The Trump Administration and the War on Diversity
By Tracy Thomas
2018 Law & Society Association Diversity Committee and Wake Forest University Law Review Symposium Issue“The Trump Administration and the War on Diversity”Call for PapersThe Trump Administration has inspired much criticism within the…
Family Law Prof Blog
Supreme Court Rules for Colorado Baker in Same-Sex Wedding Cake Case
By Family Law
From CNN:The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake to celebrate the marriage of a same sex couple because of a religious…
ImmigrationProf Blog
How Migrant YouTubers are combatting Xenophobia and Discrimination
This article from Medium published by the International Organization for Migration reports that the YouTuber phenomenon has a particularly interesting characteristic: many of them are new arrivals to their current…
Keeping It Real Estate
Right to rent legal challenge
A challenge to the government's right to rent measures began yesterday (6 June) when permission was granted to the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), a charity, to…
The Right Coast
The High Price of Stale Grievances – Quillette
But as the date approached, I learned that one of my friends had been fired and replaced. The reason? He was a white Hispanic, and Rihanna s artistic team had…
Labor & Employment Law Navigator
Highly-Publicized U.S. Supreme Court LGBT Ruling Threads the Needle and Avoids Constitutional Questions
In a 7-2 decision yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple…