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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Samuel Singer and Amy Salyzyn on “Preventing Misgendering in Canadian Courts”
By Jamie Abrams
Samuel Singer and Amy Salyzyn have posted "Preventing Misgendering in Canadian Courts: Respectful Forms of Address Directives" on SSRN. This work is forthcoming in the Canadian Bar Review. Trans people face significant…
The Right Coast
Harvard Discriminates Against Middle-Class Kids – WSJ
When the Supreme Court struck down racial preferences in college admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused her colleagues of having let-them-eat-cake obliviousness. Her assessment of the case is as confused…
Davis+Gilbert PERKS
EEOC Updates “Know Your Rights” Poster for PWFA
Further to our PERKS post on the federal Pregnancy Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) last week, the EEOC recently updated the federal "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal" poster to…
Law School Academic Support Blog
What Goes Around, Comes Around
In the past week, the United States Supreme Court has solidified and endorsed institutional racism and the exclusion of LGBTQIA+ people from places of public accommodation. The 14th Amendment…
Religion Clause
Supreme Court GVR’s Case on Bakers’ Refusal To Design Cake For Same-Sex Wedding
On Friday, in Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, (Docket No. 22-204, GVR'd June 30, 2023) (Order List) the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari, vacated the lower court's judgment…
School Law
OCR Determines School District’s Book Screening and Removal Process May Have Created Title VI and Title IX Hostile Environment
By Gwen J. Zittoun, Dori Pagé Antonetti, Kelsey Scarlett
After a recent investigation conducted pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the U.S. Department of Education’s…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Won’t Hear Case of Charter School Requiring Girls to Wear Skirts
By Tracy Thomas
Wash Post, Supreme Court Won't Hear Charter School's Bid to Force Girls to Wear SkirtsThe Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the case of a North Carolina charter school…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
There is No “Floor” for “Garden-Variety” Emotional Distress Arising from Discrimination Says Court
Suppose an employee or tenant is the victim of housing or employment discrimination/harassment; what is the value of the ordinary (or in the court's words "garden variety") emotional distress that…
Davis+Gilbert PERKS
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Takes Effect Nationwide
Employers: Reminder that the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) takes effect today and today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will begin accepting charges of discrimination for incidents that…
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