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Discrimination
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La Revue
A propos de stress et harcèlement
La France n’est pas le seul pays à s’intéresser au stress, au harcèlement et à la discrimination. Ainsi, le tribunal fédéral de Manhattan, avec un jury composé de 5 femmes…
Texas Employment Law Update
Can Mega-Class Adjudication of Discrimination Claims Ever Be Fair to Employers?
Mega class-actions attempting to adjudicate discrimination claims on behalf of thousands or tens of thousands of class members are often fundamentally unfair to employers and violate their right to due process. The recent $250M…
ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. Immigration Law as Discrimination (Not Anti-Discrimination) Law
I visited New York City earlier this week to participate in a panel of the Association of American Law Schools Mid-Year meeting. My presentation focused on how color-blind U.S. immigration…
Legal Profession Blog
No Home in Prison
The Iowa Supreme Court today held that a prison is not considered to be an inmate's "dwelling" place for purposes of Iowa discrimination laws. However, the inmate might be considered…
Alabama Employment Law Report
TWO DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINTS WHERE TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
Oftentimes, when I give speeches, I tell the audience that I cannot make up stories that are stranger than what happens in real life. Over the past several days, I…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Defendant’s Gender Affects Length of Sentence”
Main May 27, 2010"Defendant's Gender Affects Length of Sentence"A helpful reader forwarded me this posting from ScienceDaily, which has a report with a headline that serves as the title of…
School Law
New Federal Pleading Standards Lead to Dismissal of Former Teacher’s Discrimination Claim
Through several cases issued in the past two years, the United States Supreme Court has clarified that, in all civil cases, a plaintiff must plead factual content that allows the…
World of Employment
Supreme Court: Disparate Impact Plaintiffs Can Sue Based on the Application of the Discriminatory Practice
By Marc Alifanz
The Supreme Court today issued a judicial smackdown to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, unanimously reversing its decision in Lewis v. City of Chicago (as we suggested it should…
ImmigrationProf Blog
No Surprises: AP-Univision Poll: Hispanic discrimination high
An Associated Press-Univision Poll found that 61 percent of people overall said Hispanics face significant discrimination, compared with 52 percent who said blacks do and 50 percent who said women.…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Rand Paul and Federal Civil Rights
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
Rand Paul, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Kentucky, seems to have reconsidered his distinction between public discrimination and private discrimination in taking on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. …