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Harassment
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Employment Discrimination Report
Bullying — There Oughta Be A Law! (But At Least There’s A Good Treatise!)
Last November 19th we had a guest blogger on the subject of bullying: Ellen Pinkos Cobb, Esq., a Senior Regulatory & Legal Analyst for the The Isosceles Group. Previous to…
Employment Discrimination Report
Inmate Clerk Settles Sexual Harassment Case — She Is An “Employee”
Employment anti-discrimination laws quite naturally apply to employment and employees. However, we know that the issue of who is an "employee" is not so easy to determine sometimes. Is someone an…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: “Quickie Election” Rules, the Bong Bowl, Deporting Bieber
The Super Bowl is a big deal out in Seattle, and it's a big deal on the LexBlog Network. Over on LXBN, reporter Anna Gallegos has a piece on the…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Offensive Tweets and Twitter Justice: The Tale of Justine Sacco for Employers
Have you heard of Justine Sacco? If you're on social media, it was hard to avoid over the weekend. She was the public relations professional who posted an offensive tweet…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Formalism and Employer Liability Under Title VII
The title of this post comes from this article arguing that the Supreme Court's decision in Vance v. Ball State University demonstrates that legal formalism amounts to a ruse for judicial policymaking.…
Education Law Prof Blog
Sixty-Seven Percent of College Students Report Being Harassed on Campus
By Derek Black
A recent survey of 282 colleges and 44 collegeadministrators found that 67% of students experienced harassment on campus and61% witnessed another student being harassed. Those students reported that the harassment had…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Stop Cursing, Damn It!
While Justice Scalia's caution that Title VII is not "a general civility code" has been repeatedly invoked, it hasn't stopped the spread of employer civility codes. Such rules probably owe…
Alabama Employment Law Report
Happy Halloween: Real Tricks In The Employment World
Yesterday, I posted about how to avoid getting tricked in the employment world. Today, I will give some real life examples of how crazy things happen in the workplace. Zombies,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: The Forgotten Equality Norm in Immigration Preemption: Discrimination, Harassment, and the Civil Rights Act of 1870 by Lucas Guttentag
The Forgotten Equality Norm in Immigration Preemption: Discrimination, Harassment, and the Civil Rights Act of 1870by Lucas Guttentag Yale University - Law School; Stanford Law School October 20138 Duke J.…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Georgia Study Shows Discrimination Cases are Disfavored
Two Atlanta area lawyers researched discrimination cases in the Northern District of Georgia. They found among the cases filed in federal court, 80% were dismissed without a trial. In a…