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Discrimination
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Train Law Blog
Metro North Railroad and LIRR Beware!
The civil penalties for discrimination just got steeper and more painful for Metro North Railroad and Long Island Railroad. Metro North and LIRR now are subject to new penalties…
Fair Housing Defense
Mobile Home Park Pays Large Settlement to Settle Charges of Discrimination Based on Familial Status
We’ve talked a bit on this blog about the different classes that are protected under the Fair Housing Act ( "FHA") -- including race, national origin, sex, color, disability and familial…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Union Official Backs Off Charge that VW is Revisiting its Nazi Past
From the Chattanooga Times Free Press:A union official backed away Friday from an analogy in an e-mail in which he had linked Volkswagen's Nazi past to the use of Hispanic…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Employees Can Appeal From a “No Reasonable Cause” Finding at CHRO, But It’s an Uphill Battle
UPDATED As I've talked about before, an employee who claims various types of employment discrimination must typically file his/her complaint first with the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
CHRO Annual Report Shows Surprising Drop in Complaints Filed
With the local economy suffering the effects of the economic recession, the prevailing wisdom of experts has been that the number of discrimination claims filed would continue to skyrocket. However,…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Beauty and Equality: Saturday Evening Review
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
Appearances are not merely a matter of aesthetics, but also of law and politics. That's the argument of Deborah Rhode in The Injustice of Appearance, 61 Stanford Law Review 1033…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Second discimination suit this year by a legal writing prof
Back in May, we reported on the case of a St. Mary's School of Law LRW prof who was suing the Texas school for alleged age and gender discrimination when it failed to renew…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
LAY-OFFS CANNOT ALWAYS AVOID DISCRIMINATION OR RETALIATION TRIALS
In Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. The Boeing Company (August 18, 2009), the Ninth Circuit reminded employers that reductions-in-force do not mean that the company may still not have to…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Student Scholarship: Racial Classification in Assisted Reproduction
Dov Fox (Yale 2010) has posted Racial Classification in Assisted Reproduction on SSRN. Here is the abstract:ThisNote considers the moral status of practices that facilitate parentalselection of sperm donors according…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
An Unusual Fee Arrangement and Legal Malpractice
This case presents a most unusual fee arrangement and litigation strategy in which the attorneys took on a large number of discrimination cases against a single employer, fashioned a reverse…