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Discrimination
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Texas Employment Lawyer
Recent Fifth Circuit Opinion Expands Actionable Adverse Actions for Title VII Discrimination Claims
Texas Employer Lawyer Colin Walsh On August 18, 2023, the Fifth Circuit issued an en banc opinion in Hamilton v. Dallas County, No. 21-10133 that overturned decades old judge-made law…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: No Country for Model Minorities: Evidence of Discrimination Against Asians and Noncitizen Immigrants in the U.S. Nursing Home Market by Chengxin Xu and Danbee Lee
No Country for Model Minorities: Evidence of Discrimination Against Asians and Noncitizen Immigrants in the U.S. Nursing Home Market by Chengxin Xu and Danbee LeeAbstractPrevious literature related to discrimination against…
Law and the Workplace
Fifth Circuit Expands Universe of Title VII Actionable Adverse Employment Actions
By Steven J. Pearlman, Atoyia Harris, Alexander J. Blutman
On August 18, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit expanded the types of employment actions that may constitute “adverse employment action” under Title VII in Hamilton…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Shift Assignments Can Constitute Discrimination, After All
I previously wrote about the first decision in Hamilton v. Dallas County here. That decision held that forcing female detention officers to work on weekends was not discrimination based on…
California Employment Law Update
California Expands FEHA Liability to Include “Institutional Agents” of Employers
By Tony Oncidi, Joseph O’Keefe, David Gobel
California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) is already one of the most employee-friendly state civil rights laws in the country. Until now, it was not clear whether employees could…
Religion Clause
New Jersey Settles With Township Accused of Discriminating Against Orthodox Jewish Residents
A Consent Order (full text) was entered yesterday by a New Jersey trial court in Platkin v. Jackson Township, (NJ Super., Aug. 28, 2023). In the suit, the state alleged that…
Labor & Employment Law Perspectives
Traditionally Employer Friendly Appeals Court Gives Employees Victory by Broadening What Conduct Qualifies as Discrimination
If you are a loyal reader of our blog (which you should be), you know that employee protections have been broadening in recent times — be it by changes to…
Nonprofit Law Blog
Charitable: Eliminating Prejudice and Discrimination
Charitable purposes under IRC Section 501(c)(3) include the promotion of social welfare by organizations that conduct activities to eliminate prejudice and discrimination. See Treas. Reg. 1.501(c)(3)-1(d)(2). The IRS Exempt Organizations…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Viewpoint Distinctions in Favor of Anti-LGBTQ Speech
By Tracy Thomas
Carlos Ball, First Amendment Exemptions for Some, 137 Harvard L. Rev. Forum (forthcoming 2023) This Essay argues that the Supreme Court’s assessment of what it understood to be the sincerity and…
Faruki Blog
No Group Libel for Chicago Poles
By jgreinerficlaw-com-jack-greiner
Several members of Chicago's Polish population recently failed to hold a Chicago Sun-Times columnist responsible for libel based on a column concerning the treatment of Jews in Poland during and…