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Discrimination
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Peer Review Still Matters Most
By Pete Boettke
|Peter Boettke|The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a new study that found that while established academics are experimenting with a variety of new media outlets, young scholars are still…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
EEOC’s Near-Record Number of Discrimination and Retaliation Charges in 2009 Foretells Increased Liability Concerns for Employers
The EEOC reported that workplace discrimination charges reached near-record highs in 2009. According to the EEOC, there were 93,277 charges filed in fiscal year 2009 -- the second-highest level in…
Legal Profession Blog
Important Public Interest Fee Decision
The New Jersey Supreme Court upheld a trial court decision finding that parties to a discrimination case did not reach a settlement through a mediator. The court lifted a bar…
Med Law Blog
Hospital Bears Burden of Proving Peer Review Privilege
In Bansal vs. Mount Carmel Health Systems, Inc., an Ohio state appellate court ruled that the hospital had failed to prove that documents were protected by Ohio’s statutory peer review privilege (Ohio…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Basketball League Only For White U.S. Citizens
Racism and xenophobia alive and well in the United States. Billy Byler writes for the Augusta Chronicle:A new professional basketball league boasting rosters made up exclusively of white Americans has…
California Employment Law
Court refuses to award ridiculously excessive attorneys' fees (this time)
In Chavez v. City of Los Angeles (pdf), a member of the LAPD sued for discrimination and retaliation. After a tortured procedural history that spanned four years and involved actions in…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Supervisor’s Dislike of Employees Not Proof of Retaliation or Discrimination
An employee who is passed over for promotion -- time and again -- may feel like the whole world is against them. Even so, the fact that supervisors and…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Employees Fare Worse in Federal Lawsuit Study
Recently, I wrote about a study showing that employers are losing more discrimination cases this past year. This was a study published by Manpower, a human resources firm. Yet, a…
The Right Coast
Liberals, conservatives and the academy Tom Smith
I don't have much to add to this, except that it's all true. Well, a few observations. There are opportunities to be had in hiring such as Scalia clerks who…
Alabama Employment Law Report
EEOC RELEASES 2009 STATISTICS: OVER 93,000 CLAIMS FILED
The EEOC released fiscal year 2009 statistics this week: although the number of claims was down 2% from 2008's record level, 2009 had the second highest number of complaints ever…