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Discrimination
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San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Direct Evidence of Discrimination Should be Enough
What does it take to show discrimination, if this is not enough? The best evidence to show discrimination is almost always what we call direct evidence. The "n" word, for…
Texas Employment Law Update
New Jury Verdict Research Indicates Employers Faring Worse in Jury Trials
Manpower has published its most recent research on jury verdicts and the news is not good for employers. According to a summary of the full report: Employers won the lowest percentage of…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship
ArticlesMegan E. Mowrey, Discriminatory Retaliation: Title VII Protection for the Cooperating Employee, 29 Pace L. Rev. 689 (2009).Sean M. Anderson, Risky Retirement Business: How ESOPs Harm the Workers They Are…
MS Litigation Review & Commentary
Federal Court Jury Awards LaVerne Gentry $100,000 for Retaliation by Jackson State
On the heels of Saturday's lackluster loss to Alcorn State in football Jackson State suffered another defeat today when a federal court jury in Jackson awarded LaVerne Gentry $100,000 in her lawsuit…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Obama Administration Creates New Interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force
The Obama Administration announced today the creation of an interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to strengthen efforts to combat financial crime. The Department of Justice will lead the task…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
What Happened To … The Lawsuits Against the CHRO By Two Former Employees?
It seems like every fall, something new trickles out of a lawsuit brought by two former employees of the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO) -- Paula Ross and…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Gay Rights Advocates Find Some Support from Unlikely Quarters: Salt Lake City and the Mormon Church, and the AMA
L.A. Times: Gay Rights Advocates Get Good News From Unusual Sources: Salt Lake City and the AMA, by Kate Linthicum: Gay rights advocates were disappointed last week when Maine voters…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Preventing Acts of Hate and Discrimination in the Wake of Fort Hood
Dear fellow human relations/human rights leaders:As details of the terrible tragedy at Fort Hood and we mourn thesenselessloss of life and injury, we need to remind people that they should…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Probabilities and Symmetrical Access to Information in Harassment Cases
Before I got sidetracked by David Letterman and othercurrent affairs, I was blogging about the application of the Teamstersburden-shifting framework in pattern or practice disparate treatment cases. Today, I want…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Hotel owner tells Hispanic workers to change names
Latino tempers flared this week with news reports out of New Mexico that an Anglo hotel owner -- who sounds something like Clint Eastwood's character in Gran Torino -- "marched…