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Discrimination
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Making the case against the death penalty on the 15th “World Day against the Death Penalty”
Main October 10, 2017Making the case against the death penalty on the 15th "World Day against the Death Penalty"Bill Richardson, the former New Mexico Gov and US ambassador to the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate
Washington Post (Oct. 6, 2017): Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, by Juliet Eilperin, Amy Goldstein and William Wan:In the next move on Trump's path to dismantle as…
The Right Coast
New DoJ transgender discrimination memo highlights how messy the Civil Rights Act is – Hot Air Hot Air
Now, with a new memo having been issued, the federal government s position in any pending or future lawsuits has changed. Sex and gender will once again refer to a…
PrawfsBlawg
ACLU, free speech, and discrimination
Main Friday, October 06, 2017ACLU, free speech, and discriminationThe New York Times writes about soul-searching at the ACLU in the wake of Charlottesville. Two items of note.First, Executive Director Anthony…
Virgin Islands Law Blog
Avoid These Key Mistakes When Responding to an EEOC Complaint
By Ravi S. Nagi
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal regulatory agency that exists to protect employees or job candidates from discrimination based on certain protected characteristics, including age, gender and…
Employment Law
Uniformed Service Members To Become a Protected Class Under the New York City Human Rights Law
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently signed into law an amendment to the New York City Human Rights Law (the “NYCHRL”) prohibiting discrimination on the basis of uniformed…
The Right Coast
Satanists Oppose Christian Bakers | The Daily Caller
The Satanic Temple (TST) has announced a plan for those who feel alienated or oppressed by the privileged status that religion holds over sexual orientation: Request your homophobic baker make a cake…
Legal Profession Blog
Ghetto Comment Violated Rule 8.4(g)
An attorney's conditional admission of misconduct accepted by the Colorado Presiding Disciplinary Judge acknowledged a violation of Rule 8.4(g) and the sanction of public censureIn 2015, [attorney] Wareham represented a…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Keep the Cameras Rolling: Photographers Lose in Challenge over Refusal to Service Same-Sex Weddings under Minnesota’s Human Rights Act
by Prof. Jeremiah Ho Last week, a federal district court in Minnesota ruled against plaintiffs Carl and Angel Larsen, and their videography company, TMG, in their suit against Lori Swanson,…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
How Title IX Enforcement Probably Discriminates against Minority Students
By Tracy Thomas
Ben Trachtenberg, How University Title IX Enforcement and Other Discipline Processes (Probably) Discriminate Against Minority Students, 18 Nevada L. Rev. 2 (forthcoming 2018)AbstractThis Article argues that university discipline procedures likely discriminate…