Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
Darcy M. Pottle |
FEDERAL EMPLOYER SANCTIONS AS IMMIGRATION FEDERALISM |
16 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 99 (Fall 2010) |
Introduction. 990 I. IRCA's Employer Sanctions: From Punishment to Decentralization of Power. 105 A. A Brief History of IRCA's Employer Sanctions. 105 B. Employers as Private Immigration Screeners. 112 1. The I-9 Process. 114 2. E-Verify: An Attempt to Salvage Work Authorization Verification. 116 II. Federal Exclusivity in Immigration Enforcement.... |
2010 |
Brian S. Clarke |
GROSSLY RESTRICTED PLEADING: TWOMBLY/IQBAL, GROSS, AND CANNIBALISTIC FACTS IN COMPOUND EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS |
2010 Utah Law Review 1101 (2010) |
Over its last three terms, the United States Supreme Court has drastically altered the pleading standards for civil actions. Beginning in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, and concluding with Ashcroft v. Iqbal, the Court redefined the requirements of notice pleading under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)(2) and the standard of review on motions... |
2010 |
Dan L. Schaap, Kelln A. Zimmer, Alicia Q. Currin-Moore, Edward D. Dowdy |
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT |
42 Texas Tech Law Review 781 (Spring, 2010) |
This Article will address the Fifth Circuit's decisions from June 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009 involving civil rights and anti-discrimination statutes; federal disability, age, and benefit legislation; federal wage, hour, and benefit laws; and labor relations. The Article only covers published decisions, and while it attempts to thoroughly review labor... |
2010 |
Janet Ainsworth |
LANGUAGE, POWER, AND IDENTITY IN THE WORKPLACE: ENFORCEMENT OF 'ENGLISH-ONLY' RULES BY EMPLOYERS |
9 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 233 (Fall/Winter, 2010) |
In recent years, the American workplace has mirrored American society in its increasing ethnic diversity. Employers have responded to this diversity in the workforce in various ways, sometimes embracing it as a valuable resource for entrepreneurial success in the modern world, but other times seeking to suppress it in favor of maintaining a... |
2010 |
Ariana R. Levinson |
LEGAL ETHICS IN THE EMPLOYMENT LAW CONTEXT: WHO IS THE CLIENT? |
37 Northern Kentucky Law Review 1 (2010) |
The question is: Who is the client? Many ethical decisions attorneys must make emanate from this basic question. Thus, for those employment lawyers who represent, interact with, or sue unions or corporations, it is important to understand who the client is for different purposes such as representation, the attorney-client privilege, and ex parte... |
2010 |
Patrick S. Shin |
LIABILITY FOR UNCONSCIOUS DISCRIMINATION? A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT IN THE THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAW |
62 Hastings Law Journal 67 (November, 2010) |
Recent scholarship in employment discrimination law has wrestled with the problem of unconscious bias and its implications for antidiscrimination law. This Article addresses what some might regard as a naïve question: Should actions influenced by unconscious bias be regarded as discrimination under Title VII? The question might be considered naïve... |
2010 |
Jennifer Dianne Thomas |
MANDATORY WELLNESS PROGRAMS: A PLAN TO REDUCE HEALTH CARE COSTS OR A SUBTERFUGE TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST OVERWEIGHT EMPLOYEES? |
53 Howard Law Journal 513 (Winter 2010) |
In many ways, social conditioning in American society silently encourages a palpable level of disdain for overweight individuals. Overweight members of our society face discrimination that is open, obvious, and wonted. In the workplace, overweight yet equally qualified applicants are: less likely to be hired; [p]erceived as unfit for jobs... |
2010 |
Emily J. Carson |
OFF THE RECORD: WHY THE EEOC SHOULD CHANGE ITS GUIDELINES REGARDING EMPLOYERS' CONSIDERATION OF EMPLOYEES' CRIMINAL RECORDS DURING THE HIRING PROCESS |
36 Journal of Corporation Law 221 (Fall 2010) |
I. Introduction. 222 II. Background. 222 A. The Use of Criminal Records During the Hiring Process Has a Disparate Impact on Minority Applicants. 223 B. The EEOC's Origins and Authority Regarding Title VII. 224 C. The EEOC's Current Guidelines Regarding Employers' Use of Criminal Records During the Hiring Process. 226 III. Analysis. 227 A. The... |
2010 |
Katerina Linos |
PATH DEPENDENCE IN DISCRIMINATION LAW: EMPLOYMENT CASES IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION |
35 Yale Journal of International Law 115 (Winter 2010) |
I. Introduction. 116 II. Theoretical Framework. 120 A. Path Dependence in Markets, Legislatures, and Courts. 122 B. Examining Path-Dependent Processes Empirically. 124 C. EU and U.S. Doctrine in Context. 126 1. Citizens' Attitudes Toward Minority Groups. 127 2. Courts in the United States and the European Union. 129 3. Other Differences. 131 III.... |
2010 |
Roberto Concepción, Jr. |
PRE-EMPLOYMENT CREDIT CHECKS: EFFECTUATING DISPARATE IMPACT ON RACIAL MINORITIES UNDER THE GUISE OF JOB-RELATEDNESS AND BUSINESS NECESSITY |
12 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues (Spring 2010) |
I. Introduction. 524 II. The Fair Credit Reporting Act: The Backdrop of a Discriminatory Employment Practice. 527 III. Effectuating Disparate Impact Under the Guise of Job-Relatedness and Business Necessity. 529 A. Disparate Impact of Pre-Employment Credit Checks on Racial Minorities. 530 B. Pre-Employment Credit Checks Are Neither Job-Related nor... |
2010 |
Elise M. Bloom , Partner and Co-Chair, Labor & Employment Law Department, Proskauer Rose LLP |
RESPONDING TO KEY CHANGES IN EMPLOYMENT LAW |
2010 Aspatore 282922 (January, 2010) |
The Supreme Court was asked to render decisions in several notable employment law cases in 2009, including: Locke v. Karass, 129 S. Ct. 798 (2009): Whether union requirements that non-member employees pay a service fee through a pooling arrangement, which is used to fund litigation that may not specifically be for the benefit of those nonmembers,... |
2010 |
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt , Todd Dvorak |
REVIEW OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT DECISIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S 2008-2009 TERM |
25 ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law 107 (Winter, 2010) |
In its most recently completed Term, the United States Supreme Court decided eight labor and employment law cases of some consequence. The decided cases covered a broad array of labor and employment subjects, including: the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), the Age Discrimination... |
2010 |
Katie R. Kormanyos |
RICCI V. DESTEFANO: HOW THE SUPREME COURT MUDDLED EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAW AND DOOMED EMPLOYERS TO COSTLY LITIGATION |
41 University of Toledo Law Review 975 (Summer 2010) |
IN June 2009, the United States Supreme Court created headlines nationwide when it handed down a decision favoring white firefighters who had brought a Title VII race discrimination action against the city of New Haven, Connecticut. The Court's decision was widely anticipated. Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy claimed that the... |
2010 |
Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State University |
ROBERT SAMUEL SMITH, RACE, LABOR, & CIVIL RIGHTS: GRIGGS versus DUKE POWER AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY, BATON ROUGE: LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008. PP. X + 234. $37.50 (ISBN 978-0-8071-3363-7) |
28 Law and History Review 293 (February, 2010) |
Jobs have been crucial to freedom in modern societies based on producing and acquiring property. The famed August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in its title emphasized the crucial connection in the United States. Exploitation and exclusion of black labor, reaching back to slavery and advancing through Jim Crow segregation and... |
2010 |
Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
TEACHING EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION |
54 Saint Louis University Law Journal 755 (Spring 2010) |
Teaching civil rights to this generation's law students can come with its own unique challenges. For many of these students, civil rights struggles are a phenomenon of the past. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and sections 4 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had been in existence for twenty years when much of this generation of... |
2010 |
Elizabeth M. Schneider |
THE CHANGING SHAPE OF FEDERAL CIVIL PRETRIAL PRACTICE: THE DISPARATE IMPACT ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION CASES |
158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 517 (January, 2010) |
Introduction. 518 I. The Changing Nature of Civil Pretrial Practice in the Federal Courts. 523 A. Pleading. 527 B. Summary Judgment, Iqbal, and Scott. 537 C. Daubert. 551 II. Implications for Federal Civil Litigation. 556 III. Why Is This Happening?. 562 IV. Correcting the Impact. 569 |
2010 |
Jillian T. Weiss |
THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION, NONDISCRIMINATION STATUTES BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY, AND THE FREE EXERCISE CLAIMS OF NON-CHURCH-RELATED EMPLOYERS |
12 Florida Coastal Law Review 15 (Fall 2010) |
In a number of recent political issue campaigns regarding the enactment of employment protections law based on sexual orientation and gender identity, opponents of such laws have often raised concerns about the infringement on the religious freedoms of business owners. While there are often legislative exemptions for churches and other religious... |
2010 |
Mary-Rose Papandrea |
THE FREE SPEECH RIGHTS OF OFF-DUTY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES |
2010 Brigham Young University Law Review 2117 (2010) |
Until recently, Andrew Shirvell was an assistant attorney general in Michigan. This past fall, he created a blog attacking the openly gay president of the University of Michigan student body as a racist and liar who was promoting a radical homosexual agenda. Initially, Michigan Attorney General Michael Cox--Shirvell's boss--condemned... |
2010 |
Corey A. Ciocchetti , John Holcomb |
THE FRONTIER OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: EMPLOYMENT PREFERENCES & DIVERSITY IN THE PRIVATE WORKPLACE |
12 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 283 (Winter 2010) |
Affirmative action remains controversial in American jurisprudence and society in general. Corporate policies, governmental programs and judicial decisions merely touching on minority preferences generate scathing media editorials and public outcry. The pro-affirmative action camp accuses opponents of holding back minority advancement. They argue... |
2010 |
David Sherwyn, Michael Heise |
THE GROSS BEAST OF BURDEN OF PROOF: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON HOW THE BURDEN OF PROOF INFLUENCES EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION CASE OUTCOMES |
42 Arizona State Law Journal 901 (Fall 2010) |
Scholarly and public attention to the burden of proof and jury instructions has increased dramatically since the Supreme Court's 2009 decision in Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. Gross holds that the so-called mixed-motive jury instruction, which we call the motivating factor instruction, is not available in age, and possibly disability and... |
2010 |
Maurice Wexler, Charles C. Warner, Gary R. Siniscalco, John L. Quinn, Adam T. Klein |
THE LAW OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION FROM 1985 TO 2010 |
25 ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law 349 (Spring, 2010) |
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1964 CRA) became the law of the land following the longest filibuster in the history of the United States Senate. Title VII of the 1964 CRA prohibits discrimination in employment and, together with the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Executive Order 11246, has become an... |
2010 |
Erica E. Hoodhood |
THE QUINTESSENTIAL EMPLOYER'S DILEMMA: COMBATING TITLE VII LITIGATION BY MEETING THE ELUSIVE STRONG BASIS IN EVIDENCE STANDARD |
45 Valparaiso University Law Review 111 (Fall, 2010) |
Suppose that Publicus Corporation issues an objective assessment to determine qualified candidates for a promotion and plans to promote the top ten highest scoring candidates. To the corporation's dismay, the test results reveal that the top ten scoring candidates were all white males, although nearly half of the test takers were minorities.... |
2010 |
Howard L. Brown , Honorable Raymond D. Austin |
THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NAVAJO PREFERENCE IN EMPLOYMENT ACT: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF EVOLUTION, INTERPRETATION, AND APPLICATION OF THE NAVAJO NATION'S EMPLOYMENT PREFERENCE LAWS |
40 New Mexico Law Review 17 (Winter 2010) |
The Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized Indian Nation in the United States with approximately 225,000 enrolled members. Approximately 180,000 of those members live within the Navajo Nation, in addition to several thousand nonmembers who reside or work there. The population of the Navajo Nation includes a workforce that produces goods... |
2010 |
Autumn George |
"ADVERSE EMPLOYMENT ACTION"--HOW MUCH HARM MUST BE SHOWN TO SUSTAIN A CLAIM OF DISCRIMINATION UNDER TITLE VII? |
60 Mercer Law Review 1075 (Spring 2009) |
Adverse employment action is judicial shorthand for determining whether a plaintiff showed that an employer's action sufficiently affected the employee's compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment. This is a crucial element to sustain a § 703 claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, what does adverse... |
2009 |
Henry H. Drummonds |
BEYOND THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT: UNLEASHING THE STATES IN LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS POLICY |
19 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 83 (Fall 2009) |
This Article proposes a major devolution of labor relations policy making authority to the states. Echoing the federalism discussion in other contexts like global warming and prescription drugs, labor relation preemption doctrine should be examined and reformed by Congress. Existing doctrine is entirely judge-made even though only Congress, not the... |
2009 |
Ishra Solieman |
BORN OSAMA: MUSLIM-AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION |
51 Arizona Law Review 1069 (Winter 2009) |
Muslim-Americans have faced many challenges to their basic civil liberties since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centers. One of the areas in which they have felt the most discrimination is in the workplace. The Equal Employment Opportunities Act, otherwise known as Title VII, prohibits employers from discriminating against employees... |
2009 |
Nathan L. Barrett |
CIVIL RIGHTS-EMPLOYMENT-BEFORE AN EMPLOYER MAY LAWFULLY TAKE RACE-BASED ACTION TO REMEDY A PRACTICE THAT HAS A DISPARATE IMPACT, THE EMPLOYER MUST HAVE A STRONG BASIS IN EVIDENCE TO BELIEVE THAT IT WILL BE SUBJECT TO DISPARATE-IMPACT LIABILITY IF IT FAILS |
79 Mississippi Law Journal 467 (Winter 2009) |
In 2003, New Haven, Connecticut firefighters took a promotional exam to qualify for promotion to the rank of lieutenant or captain. The interested candidates invested both personal time and money to prepare for the exam over a three-month period. The results of the exam revealed that white candidates had outperformed minority candidates. Fearing... |
2009 |
Helen Norton |
CONSTRAINING PUBLIC EMPLOYEE SPEECH: GOVERNMENT'S CONTROL OF ITS WORKERS' SPEECH TO PROTECT ITS OWN EXPRESSION |
59 Duke Law Journal 1 (October, 2009) |
This Article identifies a key doctrinal shift in courts' treatment of public employees' First Amendment claims--a shift that imperils the public's interest in transparent government as well as the free speech rights of more than twenty million government workers. In the past, courts interpreted the First Amendment to permit governmental discipline... |
2009 |
Erwin Chemerinsky |
COURT'S CONSERVATIVES HOLD SWAY IN EMPLOYMENT CASES |
45-SEP Trial 52 (September, 2009) |
The first four terms of the John Roberts era have shown us a Supreme Court that generally favors employers over workers in employment discrimination cases. This was especially clear during the most recently completed term, where, in three major cases, the Court imposed significant new barriers to workers' ability to get redress for discrimination.... |
2009 |
Megan E. Mowrey |
DISCRIMINATORY RETALIATION: TITLE VII PROTECTION FOR THE COOPERATING EMPLOYEE |
29 Pace Law Review 689 (Summer 2009) |
Discriminatory retaliation represented 32.3% of all Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claims in 2007, up from 22.6% in 1997. 28.3% of those retaliation charges specifically involved Title VII, an increase from 20.3% in 1997. As the frequency of retaliation claims filed through the EEOC has increased, courts have devoted more time to... |
2009 |
Devah Pager , Bruce Western , David Pedulla |
EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION AND THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF LOW-WAGE LABOR MARKETS |
1 University of Chicago Legal Forum 317 (2009) |
A large body of theoretical and empirical research would lead us to predict a steady decline in discrimination, but several features of contemporary low-wage labor markets may function to sustain or renew racialized decision-making. Shifts in the composition of both low-wage jobs and workers have potentially created new incentives and opportunities... |
2009 |
Ronald Turner |
EMPLOYMENT LAW |
62 SMU Law Review 1097 (Summer 2009) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 1097 II. JURY SELECTION AND RACE-BASED STRIKES. 1097 III. EMPLOYMENT ARBITRATION. 1102 IV. WHISTLEBLOWERS. 1107 V. EMPLOYMENT-RELATED TORTS. 1112 VI. THE DRAM SHOP ACT. 1114 VII. CONCLUSION. 1117 THIS article surveys significant court decisions and developments in employment law during the Survey period of November 1, 2007 to... |
2009 |
Cian Beecher , Partner, Arthur Cox |
EMPLOYMENT LAW IN IRELAND |
2009 Aspatore 2510866 (August, 2009) |
A unique aspect of practicing employment law in any EU member state, such as Ireland, is the interaction between local laws and the implementation of pan-European legislation. One key area of legislative focus for the EU has been the development of a significant body of employee protection legislation. By way of example, the EU has legislated on... |
2009 |
Scott A. Moss , Peter H. Huang |
HOW THE NEW ECONOMICS CAN IMPROVE EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAW, AND HOW ECONOMICS CAN SURVIVE THE DEMISE OF THE "RATIONAL ACTOR" |
51 William and Mary Law Review 183 (October, 2009) |
Much employment discrimination law is premised on a purely money-focused reasonable employee, the sort who can be made whole with damages equal to lost wages, and who does not hesitate to challenge workplace discrimination. This type of rational actor populated older economic models but has been since modified by behavioral economics and... |
2009 |
Katrina Grider, Katrina Grider & Associates, 14227 Prospect Point Drive, Cypress, Texas 77429, (281) 256-9311 (Office), (281) 256-9312 (Fax), (888) ASK-4KAT (Toll Free Office), katrinagrider@sbcglobal.net |
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATE |
46 The Advocate (Texas) 1 (Spring, 2009) |
C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS. 1 A. ADA Amendments Act of 2008. 1 1. Substantially Limits is Redefined. 1 a. Pre-ADAAA Law. 2 b. The ADAAA Law. 2 2. Major Life Activities are Enumerated. 2 a. Pre-ADAAA Law. 2 b. The ADAAA Law. 2 3. Major Life Activities are Expanded to Include Major Bodily Functions. 2 a. Pre-ADAAA Law.... |
2009 |
Craig Robert Senn |
PERCEPTION OVER REALITY: EXTENDING THE ADA'S CONCEPT OF "REGARDED AS" PROTECTION UNDER FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAW |
36 Florida State University Law Review 827 (Summer, 2009) |
A head-scratching inconsistency currently exists in federal employment discrimination law. On the one hand, an employer is 100% liable under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) if it erroneously regards a person as having an actual disability and then discriminates based on this misperception. On the other hand, many courts have... |
2009 |
Trina Jones |
RACE, ECONOMIC CLASS, AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY |
72 Law and Contemporary Problems 57 (Fall 2009) |
Of the 146,047,000 civilians in the U.S. labor force in 2007, approximately 82% identified themselves as White, 11% as Black or African American, 14% as of Hispanic or Latino/a ethnicity, and 5% as Asian. That year, the median household income for all racial groups was $50,233. With a poverty threshold of $21,027 for a family of four, the median... |
2009 |
Anjana Samant |
RACE, RELIGION, AND NATIONAL ORIGIN IN POST-9/11 EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION CASES |
20 Practical Litigator 45 (March 1, 2009) |
As some commentators have noted, in this post 9/11 era, Islamic religious difference has been racialized in the context of the war on terror. Margaret Chon & Donna E. Arzt, Walking While Muslim, 68 Law & Contemp. Probs. 215, 215 (2005). Anecdotal evidence compiled by The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) about the nature of civil... |
2009 |
Mary E. Pivec , Partner, Keller and Heckman LLP |
REPRESENTING EMPLOYERS CHALLENGED BY HARSH AND CONFLICTING REGULATORY IMPERATIVES |
2009 Aspatore 4025310 (November, 2009) |
I am increasingly drawn to cases that challenge employers to successfully conduct their businesses under complex and often-conflicting labor, immigration, and discrimination laws and regulations. These employers may also face unprecedented legal challenges brought on by the criminalization of ordinary worksite practices and the lure of treble... |
2009 |
Sebastian Krebber |
STATUS AND POTENTIAL OF THE REGULATION OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW AT THE EUROPEAN LEVEL |
30 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 875 (Summer 2009) |
The regulation of labor and employment law at the European level seems to be at a dead end: The last directives that addressed new substantive issues of labor and employment law were passed or proposed between 2000 and 2002. The other directives adopted since only amend, rephrase, or further implement already existing legislation. At about the same... |
2009 |
Ryan Keith Meyer |
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ELIMINATES THE "CLASS-OF-ONE" EQUAL PROTECTION CLAIM IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT [ENGQUIST V. OR. DEP'T OF AGRIC., 128 S. CT. 2146 (2008)] |
48 Washburn Law Journal 529 (Winter 2009) |
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. Currently, there are over nineteen million people in the United States employed by a local, state, or federal government. In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has narrowed the scope... |
2009 |
Kate S. Arduini |
WHY THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT AMENDMENTS ACT IS DESTINED TO FAIL: LACK OF PROTECTION FOR THE "TRULY" DISABLED, IMPRACTICABILITY OF EMPLOYER COMPLIANCE, AND THE NEGATIVE IMPACT IT WILL HAVE ON OUR ALREADY STRUGGLING ECONOMY |
2 Drexel Law Review 161 (Fall 2009) |
On September 25, 2008, former President George W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendment Act of 2008 (ADAAA), setting into motion perhaps the most extensive change to employment law in the last decade. The ADAAA, which took effect on January 1, 2009, aims to reinstitute the original congressional intent behind the Americans with... |
2009 |
Major Steven M. Ranieri |
"IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED .": AN ARGUMENT GIVING FEDERAL AGENCIES THE ABILITY TO CHALLENGE ADVERSE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION DECISIONS IN FEDERAL COURT |
2008-SEP Army Lawyer 23 (September, 2008) |
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, prohibits employment discrimination in hiring, firing, compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces these prohibitions against federal agencies through a... |
2008 |
Alan K. Tannenwald |
AN IRONIC TWIST IN EMPLOYMENT LAW: THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR AMENDING TITLE VII TO BAN DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION |
9 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 269 (2008) |
In 1964, Congress took the bold step of enacting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed employment discrimination against racial and religious minorities, as well as women. Subsequently, similar protections have been extended to both individuals over 40 years old and those with debilitating disabilities. To further promote... |
2008 |
Tricia M. Beckles |
CLASS OF ONE: ARE EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION PLAINTIFFS AT AN INSURMOUNTABLE DISADVANTAGE IF THEY HAVE NO "SIMILARLY SITUATED" COMPARATORS? |
10 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business and Employment Law 459 (Winter 2008) |
This Comment will investigate a subset of employment discrimination plaintiffs--those I call the class of one. This class of one includes plaintiffs who hold a unique position at a small office or are the only employees who have a specific set of job characteristics within a larger office. An illustrative example is an office with six... |
2008 |
Maya R. Warrier |
DARE TO STEP OUT OF THE FOGG: SINGLE-MOTIVE VERSUS MIXED-MOTIVE ANALYSIS IN TITLE VII EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION CASES |
47 University of Louisville Law Review 409 (Winter Issue, 2008) |
The enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 marked the high point of civil rights activism. Within this Act, the provisions of Title VII established one of the most important . . . statutory prohibitions against employment discrimination because it took the protections offered by the Constitution even further to eradicate employment... |
2008 |
Robert L. Nelson , Ellen C. Berrey , Laura Beth Nielsen |
DIVERGENT PATHS: CONFLICTING CONCEPTIONS OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION IN LAW AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES |
4 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 103 (2008) |
systemic discrimination, implicit bias, discrimination litigation, organizations Legal conceptions of employment discrimination have become increasingly narrow over the past two decades as the law has adopted a perpetrator model of discrimination that emphasizes purposeful intent. This tendency runs counter to social scientific research that... |
2008 |
Miranda Fleschert |
ELEVATOR COMPANY GOES DOWN: MANDATORY ARBITRATION PROVISIONS AS APPLIED TO PENDING CIVIL RIGHTS CLAIMS IN THE EMPLOYMENT CONTEXT |
2008 Journal of Dispute Resolution 571 (2008) |
In Goldsmith v. Bagby Elevator Company, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals carved a distinction in the employment context between mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreements and compulsory arbitration agreements as applied to pending claims of discrimination. In doing so, the court warns employers that any effort to terminate an employee's... |
2008 |
Gregory B. Reilly, Katy Shi-Klepper |
EMPLOYERS BEWARE: PITFALLS AND PROMISE OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IN EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION |
252-JUN New Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine 14 (June, 2008) |
Since the electronic discovery amendments to the federal rules came into effect in December 2006, there has been a plethora of articles in respected legal publications regarding the parade of horribles awaiting unwitting counsel and their clients should they fail to preserve and/or produce electronic information in discovery. This article is... |
2008 |
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EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION REMEDIES: THE SHAPE OF LAWSUITS, THE SHAPE OF THE LAW: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2008 ANNUAL MEETING ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS SECTION ON EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAW AND SECTION ON REMEDIES |
12 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 297 (2008) |
Professor Michael P. Allen : Good afternoon. I want to welcome you on behalf of both the Remedies Section and the Employment Discrimination Law Section to our joint program this afternoon. My name is Mike Allen and I'm the chair-elect of the Remedies Section. Remedies always come at the end of a lawsuit and so Paul was gracious to let me actually... |
2008 |