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Labor Law Prof Blog
Maternal Profiling . . .
. . . is employment discrimination against a woman who has, is believed to have now, or is expected to have in the future, children. For more:Maternal Profiling Enters the…
California Employment Law Update
$1.1 Million In Attorney’s Fees Awarded Following Recovery Of $30,300 Discrimination Judgment
By Tony Oncidi
Harman v. City and County of San Francisco, 158 Cal. App. 4th 407 (2007) This case, which was originally filed in federal court in 1999, involved allegations of race and…
Employer Law Report
Affirmative Action Plan Admissible As Direct Evidence of Discrimination
As further proof that no good deed goes unpunished, one Ohio appellate court has held that an employer’s affirmative action plan (AAP) may be used against it to prove discrimination. Strange…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Major NLRB Internet and Discrimination Decision
Forgive me both for the length and tenor of this post. This decision struck a knife into two issues that I've written about recently (including one that that just went…
Lancaster Law Blog
Responding to EEOC and State Agency Discrimination Charges: Five Things Every HR Generalist should know.*
The EEOC receives over 75,000 discrimination charges annually each of which requires a response by an employer. How companies respond to charges varies greatly. In the legal community there are two…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Certification of Largest Class in History–Affirmed
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
As you may know, a group of plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart alleging sexual discrimination against Wal-Mart employees in violation of Title VII. The district court certified…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Mirkay Publishes Article on Discrimination by 501(c)(3)’s
Nicholas A. Mirkay recently published "Is it 'Charitable' to Discriminate? The Necessary Transformation of Section 501(c)(3) Into the Gold Standard for Charities," (Lexis access required) 2007 Wisconsin Law Review 45. …
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship
ArticlesScott A. Moss (left), Fighting Discrimination While Fighting Litigation: A Tale of Two Supreme Courts, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 981 (2007).Jarod S. Gonzalez (right), State Antidiscrimination Statutes and Implied Preemption…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
The Tax-exempt Boy Scouts May Have a First Amendment Right to Discriminate Against Gays, But They Can’t Do So on Philadelphia Taxpayers’ Dime
On December 4, 2007, the New York Times reported that Philadelphia officials have refused to renew the $1 a year lease to a Boy Scout group of a municipal building…
Labor Law Prof Blog
EEOC Releases Fact Sheet on Employer Tests
Speaking of testing (see Paul's post below on the the disparate impact Greene case), the EEOC has just released a fact sheet on the application of federal anti-discrimination laws to…