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Discrimination
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San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Houston Prohibits Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
Houston added gender identity and sexual orientation as protected classes to its anti-discrimination policies. The policy prohibits discrimination, retaliation or harassment based on gender identity or sexual orientation in contracting,…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Failure to Follow Progressive Discipline Helps Show Discrimination
Progressive discipline. I wish I had a nickel for every potential client who told me the employer did not follow the progressive discipline policy and, instead, fired the potential client…
The Faculty Lounge
Patrick Shin On Liability for Unconscious Discrimination
Lounge readers, particularly those working in the fields of discrimination and employment law, are probably already familiar with the research on “implicit” or unconscious bias. Many will recall, for example,…
The Right Coast
Iowahawk on anti-Harvard discrimination Tom Smith
Crude but ROFL .
ImmigrationProf Blog
Linking Proposition 8 with Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Law
From Blabbeando:The link between Prop. 8 and Arizona's anti-immigrant lawby Dan Torres The Arizona legislature recently passed and revised SB 1070, the so-called “papers please” anti-immigrant bill many believe will…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Charles Barkley Denounces Arizona’s Law
Former NBA basketball star Charles Barkley hasspoken out against the Arizona immigration law: "As a black person, I’m always against any form of discrimination or racial profiling. I really respect…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Kramer on Heterosexuality and Military Service
Zach Kramer (currently at Penn State, on his way to Arizona State) has posted on SSRN his forthcoming piece in the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy: Heterosexuality and Military Service.Here…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Post-Ricci Black New Haven Firefighter Case Dismissed
The district court in Connecticut recently dismissed the Briscoe lawsuit that followed the landmark Ricci employment discrimination lawsuit. No opinion yet, but WTNH in New Haven has this story:A federal…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Discrimination & Gender in Amateur Sport
By Lisa Stam
I love stories like this: 17 year old Courtney Greer from Waterloo, Ontario, tries out for the boys' soccer team, makes the team on her own athletic ability and is…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Plausible Pleading, Part V
4. Plausibly Pleading the Pervasiveness of DiscriminationA final approach to satisfying the more extreme possible implications of plausible pleading is itself more extreme but may be invited by the Court’s requirement that a…