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Discrimination
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Labor Law Prof Blog
Employment Dispute Impedes Cancer Research Project
According to Law.com, Dr. Young Ko sued Johns Hopkins and four colleagues in June claiming she was discriminated against and her research was impeded because she is an Asian woman…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Whirlpool Corp. Agrees to Pay $850,000 in Back Wages to Settle Discrimination Claims
The Department of Labor is reporting that Whirlpool has enter into a consent decree that settles the DOL's allegations that Whirlpool engaged in hiring discrimination from March 1, 1997 to…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Graduate Student Wins Discrimination Lawsuit
Ex-Grad Student Awarded $601,000 (Inside Higher Ed)"A former SUNY graduate student was awarded $601,000 this month after a federal jury decided faculty members attacked him academically as retribution for discrimination…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Discrimination Law
A very strange story regarding a discrimination lawsuit filed agasint Virgin Blue Airlines - Stewardess 'simulated sex' with 'terrorist' (by Bill Condie)VIRGIN Blue, the no-frills Australian airline founded by Sir…
California Employment Law Update
$30 Million Punitive Damages Award In Sexual Harassment Case Was Properly Reversed
By Tony Oncidi
Gober v. Ralphs Grocery Co., 128 Cal. App. 4th 648 (2005) The jury awarded Dianne Gober and five other employees of Ralphs a total of $550,000 in compensatory damages and…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Steelworkers filed discrimination charge
United Steelworkers Files Race Discrimination Complaint Against French Company Imerys The United Steelworkers (USW) has filed a charge of race discrimination against Imerys Carbonates on behalf of employees working at…
ContractsProf Blog
Contract law and the constitution
Liberal theory in the 19th century saw in contract theory a powerful force for democracy and equality, and a good many battles were fought to give that right to disadvantaged…
New Jersey Law Blog
New Jersey Law Against Discrimination – An Overview
The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) prohibits employers from discriminating in any job-related action, including recruitment, interviewing, hiring, promotions, discharge, compensation and the terms and conditions of employment on…
Labor Law Prof Blog
EEOC v. Sidley Austin
The EEOC case against Sidley Austin Brown & Wood is back in track. According to David Hechler (Law.com):In a case the big law firms have been watching for years, the…
CrimProf Blog
BlogWatch
Sentencing Law and Policy has an interesting post about Colorado CrimProf William Pizzi's article on sentencing discrimination against people with Afro-centric features, and a post about the litigator who won…