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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
AT&T wins case on excluding contraception coverage for women
By Dan Margolies, Kansas City Star:October 29, 2007A long-running Kansas City case alleging that AT&T Corp. violated federal law by failing to provide contraceptive coverage for women has ended in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Ethnic Cleansing of Prince William County? Latino Exodus Follows Passage of New Law
A few days ago, we posted a story about Prince William County's new anti-immigration ordinance. Latinos are responding. According to the Washington Post:"Supporters of the anti-illegal immigration measure adopted in…
Labor Law Prof Blog
ENDA Update
As Paul and Rick have discussed in past posts, the Employee Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has been gaining momentum in Congress, although with a bump in the road caused by the…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Court: National Banking Act Preempts State Law Discrimination Claims
A recent California Appellate decision spells out a possible defense for some banks in discrimination cases. Specifically, the court held that state discrimination laws are preempted by the National Banking Act…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Seicshnaydre on Disparate Impact and State of Mind in Antidiscrimination Law
Stacy Seicshnaydre (Tulane) has posted on SSRN her forthcoming article in the Wake Forest Law Review: Is the Road to Disparate Impact Paved With Good Intentions? -- Stuck on State…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Phoenix Sheriff Asking About Immigration Status
From the Phoenix Business JournalThe Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has been questioning some crime victims and witnesses about their immigration status.Those inquiries raise questions as to whether Sheriff Joe Arpaio's…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Glazer on When Obscenity Discriminates
Liz Glazer (Hofstra) has posted on SSRN her forthcoming piece: When Obscenity Discriminates.Here's the abstract: When public indecency statutes outlawgender nonconformity, obscenity discriminates; when movie ratingscensor representations of sexual minorities,…
Rush on Business
Be Careful to Avoid “Reverse Discrimination”
By Rush Nigut
Michael Moore of the Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog has an excellent post on the possibility of reverse discrimination when employers make decisions under the auspices of voluntary affirmative action plans,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
A Report on the Swiss Citizenship System
The BBC reports that:"An official report into the process of naturalisation in Switzerland says the current system is discriminatory and in many respects racist. . . . It criticises the…
PropertyProf Blog
Pushing the Public-Private Boundary on the Jersey Shore
By propertyprof
Today's NY Times has an interesting article on a dispute brewing on the Jersey Shore. A Methodist group owns virtually all of Ocean Grove. It denied permission to some same…