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Environmental Law Prof Blog
Washington Post on the Iqbal Case
The Washington Post reported today on the Iqbal case alleging that former attorney general John Ash croft and FBI Director Robert Mueller knew that the prison guards holding Arab Muslims…
North Carolina Business Litigation Report
Motions To Dismiss, Little Green Men, And The United States Supreme Court
If you are working on a motion to dismiss in a federal case, you should stop right now and read the U.S. Supreme Court's decision today in Ashcroft v. Iqbal. …
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
What To Do With the CHRO? One Proposal Calls For Elimination of the CHRO and Replacement with a Unemployment Benefits-Type Model
Sometime last summer, Connecticut attorney Karen Lee Torre sparked a few fires with her suggestion to eliminate the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities -- the organization charged with,…
DuetsBlog
Discriminating Palettes
--Sharon Armstrong, Attorney I submit that when a multi-million dollar study finds that one of the “core aromas” of one of the top-selling wine varietals in the world consists of…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit En Banc Finds GERA Valid under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment
To celebrate my break from grading federal courts exams, we bring you this case, which could itself be a federal courts exam. The Ninth Circuit sitting en banc issued Alaska…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
How Should Employers Respond to CHRO Complaints? Carefully
I recently came across a blog post entitled "How to Respond to an EEOC Complaint" that got me thinking about how I would respond if the same question were asked about…
D.C. Medical Malpractice Blog
Medical Care Suffers When Language Barriers Exist
A recent article appearing in the Washington Post highlights the struggles faced when medical providers are unable to communicate with their patients. According to the report, the Washington area has…
Employment Law Watch
The Equality Bill
By Ruth Bonino
The UK Government has published the long awaited Equality Bill, the aim of which is to harmonise and consolidate discrimination legislation and also tackle inequality and discrimination which continues to…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Connecticut Supreme Court Dismisses Discrimination Claim (Yawn.)
Blog readers may remember my philosophy on Connecticut Supreme Court cases on employment discrimination -- they take on perhaps even more significance than they might otherwise deserve because they happen so infrequently. But…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Louis Jackson Writing Competition Winners
The student winners of the 2009 Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition for Labor and Employment are:First Place: Tracy Scholnick Gruber (Chicago-Kent) (photo above), Transsexual Discrimination: Discrimination “Because of .…