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Discrimination
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San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Eighth Circuit Parses the Evidence
District courts and appellate courts frequently parse evidence in discrimination cases. There is ample precedent saying they should not. But, they do. Workplace Prof blog discusses a case in which…
Employment Law Matters
Title VII protects both current and former employees from discriminatory adverse employment actions.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate against “any individual" on the basis of membership in a protected class.…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship
Kermit Roosevelt III, Not as Bad as You Think: Why Garcetti v. Ceballos Makes Sense, 14 U. Pa. J. Const'l L. 631 (2012).Mark E. Berghausen, Intersex Employment Discrimination: Title VII…
Employment & Labor
Use Of Expert-Driven Formulas In Doling Out Over $128 Million In Class Action Remedies
By Rebecca Bjork and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. Workplace class action litigation poses enormous risks for employers. For those that play out the string and go all the way down…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Collective Voice Follows Gloria Steinem’s Strong Individual Voice
The New York Times: Gloria Steinem, a Woman Like No Other, by Sarah Hepola: IN 1970, when the Senate was first debating passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, a featured…
ImmigrationProf Blog
NYPD Focus on Muslim Americans
AP reports that the New York Police Department kept secret files on businesses owned by second- and third-generation Americans specifically because they were Muslims, according to newly obtained documents that…
Employment Discrimination Report
“Stray” Remarks Can Get You Into Trouble
We all know that discrimination can be shown by direct evidence (“You are too old for our workplace”) or indirect evidence (circumstantial evidence by which one can infer that discrimination…
Employment Discrimination Report
EEOC Collected $100 Million For Employees In 2011
The EEOC has reported that in the last fiscal year employers paid $100 million to settle discrimination charges filed with the EEOC. The largest payout -- over 1/3 - was for…
Iowa Employment Law Blog
NAACP’s Criticism of Iowa Civil Rights Commission is Misplaced
Two local branches of the NAACP recently issued a report criticizing the Iowa Civil Rights Commission because of the low percentage of “probable cause” findings in discrimination complaints filed with…
Alabama Employment Law Report
EEOC Settles 2 Cases for $400,000 and $40,000 in Alabama and Tennessee
EEOC reaches $400,000 settlement for Racial Harassment Lawsuit. Ready Mix USA has a facility in Montgomery. Last week, the EEOC announced that it had reached a $400,000 settlement to the…