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Discrimination
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Law and the Workplace
NYC Human Rights Law Amended to Prohibit Discrimination Against Uniformed Servicemembers and Veterans
By Evandro Gigante, Laura Fant
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed into law an amendment to the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) adding current or prior service in the uniformed services as…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Bornstein on Discrimination
Friend-of-Blog Stephanie Bornstein has just published her great article, Reckless Discrimination, in the California Law Review. From the abstract:"If there are known, easily adopted ways to reduce bias in employment…
Media Law Prof Blog
Fields on Campaign Speech and Discriminatory Intent
Shawn Fields, University of San Diego School of Law, has published Is it Bad Law to Believe a Politician? Campaign Speech and Discriminatory Intent as San Diego Legal Studies Paper…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Firing Nazis
David Yamada (Suffolk) has a post worth reading over at Minding the Workplace on Can an employer fire a publicly-avowed white supremacist? The answer: almost certainly yes for private-sector employers;…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Houston Court of Appeals Rejects Direct Evidence
"Direct" evidence of discrimination generally means a statement that clearly indicates discriminatory intent. In one of my early cases, a San Antonio manager said "we need to get rid of…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Google Engineer Says Gender Diversity Initiatives Bad Idea
By Tracy Thomas
Diversity Programs at Google Discriminatory, Engineer Claims in Anti-Diversity MemoA document written by an unnamed senior software engineer at Google suggesting the company encourage "ideological" rather than gender diversity, is generating anger within the…
The Faculty Lounge
The Protocols of the Elders of Fresno
Jews have historically been the target of conspiracy theories, from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in 1903 and still ardently promoted in many places, to today’s…
Safety Law Matters
Another MSHA Request for Documents Upheld as Lawful
By Donna Pryor
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that MSHA could demand a miners’ personnel records to assist an investigation into a worker’s discrimination complaint. In Hopkins Coal, an operator…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
More on ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(g)
Much has been written about the new Model Rule of Professional Conduct that the American Bar Association (ABA) adopted in August 2016. My ethics column in the November/December 2016 edition…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Betty Dukes, Lead Plaintiff in Walmart Class Action, Dies
Betty Dukes, the lead plaintiff in the historic class action Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., No. C-01-2252 (N.D. Calif.), has died at age 67. Although the lower courts granted…