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Discrimination
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Labor Law Prof Blog
Discrimination in the Animal Kingdom
Folks might want to know that Judge Easterbrook's sexist dog has been joined in the pantheon of problematic pets by a racist dog (without condoing the self-help employed in this situation). Hat…
CommLawBlog
Something Erratum In The State Of . . .
When the Commission said "gender" in its original order, it didn't really mean "gender"; it meant "ethnicity".
Employer Law Report
H.B. 470 Would Prohibit Discrimination Against Employees who Smoke
Employers may want to pay attention to recently introduced H.B. 470, which would create a cause of action against employers that discriminate against individual job applicants or employees because they…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Health Care Overhaul Lowers the Cost of Being a Woman
NY Times: Overhaul Will Lower the Costs of Being a Woman, by Denise Grady:Being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. That’s the new mantra, repeated triumphantly by House…
Civil Service Disqualification Appeals Attorney Blog
Article 78 discrimination and retaliation case dismissed
Matter of Idella Abram v New York State Division of Human Rights, City of Buffalo and Buffalo State Police Department Petitioner brought about this Article 78 proceeding to annul a…
Med Law Blog
Huron Hospital (Cleveland Clinic) Case Highlights Appropriate Investigation and Discriminatory Treatment Issues
In Badri v. Huron Hospital, which is part of the Cleveland Clinic Health System, the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio granted summary judgment to the defendant hospital…
International Law Prof Blog
U.S. State Department Report Includes Human Rights Abuses Against LGBT People
The Council for Global Equality issued a press release today in which it applauded the 2010 State Department human rights report to Congress for underscoring the clear and growing crisis in…
Labor Law Prof Blog
A Case of Ironic Discrimination, Don’t You Think?
Thanks to Randy Enochs for help with the title on this post and to Josh Pollack for bringing it to my attention.I think I will let the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel…
Texas Employment Law Update
Fifth Circuit Distinguishes Comments Constituting Direct Evidence of Discrimination Versus Stray Remarks
In a discrimination case it is very important to determine whether the plaintiff is alleging direct or circumstantial evidence of discrimination. This is important because the standard by which a…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Darren Rosenblum on CEDAW’s Misguided Focus on “Women”
Darren Rosenblum (Pace Law School) has posted Unsex Cedaw: What's Wrong with Women's Rights on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article argues that the Convention on the Elimination of…