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Land Use Prof Blog
Chan, Gedal, Been, & Haughwout on the Role of Neighborhood Characteristics in Mortgage Default
Sewin Chan (NYU Wagner), Michael Gedal (NYU Wagner), Vicki Been (NYU Law), and Andrew Haughwout (Federal Reserve Bank-New York) have posted The Role of Neighborhood Characteristics in Mortgage Default Risk:…
Labor Law Prof Blog
NYLS Symposium on Discrimination Cases after Iqbal
The New York Law School Law Review and the Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy present the symposium Trial by Jury or Trial by Motion? Summary Judgment, Iqbal,…
Employment Discrimination Report
OFCCP Scores Another Big Settlement ($600,000) in a Discriminatory Failure to HIre Case
Where's the beef? Or in this case, the defense to a charge of discriminatory hiring. Caviness Beef Packers Ltd. is likely asking itself that very question. A mere month after announcing…
Class Action & Mass Torts
Another Post-Dukes Decision Spells Doom For The “Subjective Discretion” Theory Of Classwide Discrimination
By Rebecca S. Bjork and Chris Palamountain The post-Dukes class certification decisions keep rolling in, and the most recent demonstrates that class allegations based on the exercise of discretion cannot…
Reilly Workplace Investigations Blog
Discrimination Investigation: Good Resource Book
By Debra Reilly
I attended a presentation today at the 29th Labor & Employment Law Section Annual Conference where Andrew Friedman of Helmer Friedman in Venice, CA, was one of the speakers. …
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Token Representation Will Not Avoid Claims of Discrimination
Sometimes, a creative employer will defend an apparently racist decision by claiming they did not discriminate against all minorities. We see an attempt at such a defense in Diaz,…
Employment Discrimination Report
Beware! No One is Immune From Discrimination Suits
The gender discrimination and “actual or perceived” disability lawsuit recently filed against the management law firm of Proskauer Rose by its longtime CFO should be a warning to all employers…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Brescia on Iqbal’s impact on employment and housing discrimination litigation
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Forthcoming in the Kentucky Law Journal and posted on SSRN, Raymond Brescia has completed an empirical study of Iqbal's effect that, unlike past studies, attempts to focus solely on motions to dismiss going…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
The EEOC Does Not Notarize Charges of Discrimination
All too often, someone who filed an EEOC charge comes to see me with their right-to-sue letter in hand seeking representation for a lawsuit. Unable to accept their case, i…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Attorneys Dancing Around Impact of Gender Identity Discrimination Law
I have plenty of "guilty pleasures" when it comes to television watching. Dancing with the Stars isn't one of them. [caption id="attachment_3058" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Chaz Bono - Poster Child?"][/caption] (Though…