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Labor Law Prof Blog
Insensitive Employer of the Week: Senor Whitten
We all read about employers who seem to have their heads screwed on backwards, but this guy might just take the cake (via MSNBC):Larry Whitten marched into this northern New…
Texas Employment Law Update
Supreme Court of Texas Compels Arbitration of Discrimination and Retaliation Claims
Texas courts strongly favor the resolution of disputes through arbitration. When parties to a dispute have signed an agreement to arbitrate covered disputes, Texas courts will rarely disregard that agreement. A…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
How to Get Sued in Four Easy Steps
This is how you get sued. You buy an old motel, start making a lot of changes, such as: 1) telling Hispanic employees to pronounce their Hispanic names in an…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Objections to Kodak’s Proposed Race Discrimination Class-Action Settlement
In 2004, a group of Black workers of Eastman-Kodak filed a class action against the company, alleging widespread discrimination in pay and a failure to promote on the basis of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
A Rant on Anti-Latino Hate Crimes
Sadly, it continues to be open season on Latinos -- especially Latino immigrants -- in the United States. The "sport" of "beaner hopping" is even defined in the Urban Dictionary. What…
Alabama Employment Law Report
CITY OF NEW HAVEN GETS SUED AGAIN
In June, the United States Supreme Court released a 5-4 opinion in the Ricci v. DeStefano case, finding that the City of New Haven discriminated against white and Hispanic firefighters who claimed…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Hispanic Farmers Fight To Sue USDA
NPR reports on an important story of discrimination that has not gotten much press: "In Texas and across the Southwest, Hispanic farmers have been fighting the Agriculture Department for close to…
School Law
Transgender Discrimination Issues Increasingly Seen
Recently, the Maine Commission on Human Rights determined that there are reasonable grounds to conclude that a Maine school district unlawfully discriminated against a transgender student by denying her the…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Many Employers will Spend Big Bucks to Defend a Discrimination lawsuit
A school district spends $552,000 to defend a lawsuit it eventually settles for $150,000. See report at California Labor & Employment Law blog. Does that make sense? No, of course…
Alabama Employment Law Report
EEOC VERY ACTIVE IN FILING LAWSUITS IN ALABAMA
It appears as if the EEOC is taking a more active role in filing lawsuits against employers in the name of the EEOC. Over the last several weeks, the EEOC…