As workers become more knowledgeable about their rights, the number of wrongful-termination lawsuits is on the rise. Here's how you can avoid legal trouble when firing an employee. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Also known as: Title VII...
Racial discrimination claims narrowed A federal judge has narrowed the racial discrimination claims brought against the Maryland Higher Education Commission by an advocacy group for the state's historically black colleges and universities and a group of students, which alleges the state has not adequately desegregated its public...
Landmark Decision Sets Forth Principles Under Which Third Parties with Evidence Cannot Simply Decide "Not to Become Involved" as a "Privacy" Right LOS ANGELES -- The California Court of Appeal cleared the way last week for plaintiffs to begin prosecution in earnest after an eight-year logjam in the...
SAN FRANCISCO -- California's highest court on Monday barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny treatment to gays and lesbians, ruling that state law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination extends to the medical profession. Justice Joyce Kennard wrote that two Christian fertility doctors...
Job Discrimination Retaliation Collins v. Flynn 08-CV-59 Judge Skretny Background: Are defamatory and "unprofessional" statements made in a memorandum of law protected by an absolute privilege against charges of libel under Massachusetts law? ...
The California Supreme Court made one thing perfectly clear this week as a matter of constitutional law: When it's a case of religious liberty vs. sexual liberty, sexual liberty wins. In the case of Benitez v. North Coast Women's Care Medical Group, the California Supreme Court asked: "Do...
DISCRIMINATION AT ANY LEVEL OF THE THREETIERS OF THE ALCOHOL DISTRIBUTION CHAIN IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. FURTHER, ASTATE MAY NOT REQUIRE AN IN-STATE PHYSICAL PRESENCE TO PARTICIPATE ININTERSTATE COMMERCE. This was the core message embodied in Specialty Wine RetailersAssociation 's final brief submitted today in the case of Siesta VillageMarket v....
LOS ANGELES AFP — Doctors in California may not discriminate against gay patients on the basis of their religious beliefs, the state's supreme court ruled on Monday. The California Supreme Court decision overturned a lower court ruling in favor of two Christian doctors who refused fertility treatment to...
As NFL teams wrap up training camps and move back to regular practices, several notable veterans have yet to catch on. Former Pro Bowlers Shaun Alexander, Daunte Culpepper and Ty Law remain unsigned. Some have had opportunities. Safety John Lynch met with the New England Patriots...
Montgomery County's pending ban on discrimination against transgendered people might not come up for a popular vote in November after all. The Court of Appeals has agreed to hear a challenge to the referendum, which seeks to strike down a law that ensures equal treatment for...
Stoel Rives LLP has hired Carolyn D. Walker as a partner in its Portland labor and employment group. Walker has litigation and employment counseling experience in retaliation, wrongful discharge claims, sexual harassment, disability and racial discrimination, discipline and discharge, wage and hour, breaches of employee contracts and...
EEO Poster Changes Include Information on Discrimination, Equal Work, Disability Accommodations and More LAFAYETTE, Calif. -- A new version of the required "Equal Employment Opportunity is The Law" poster has been issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. The updated...
Second of Multi-City Hearings in Houston During National Bar Association's Annual Convention Investigates Housing Discrimination HOUSTON, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Trailing the 40th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity held its second of five multi-city hearings...
Women's issues; economic, societal, and personal. Stickle, Dorothy V. Nova Science Publishers 2008 199 pages $89.00 Hardcover HQ1421 These nine articles examine issues related to women in the workplace, schoolroom and on the street....
Constitutional law. Ed. by Joel Wm. Friedman. Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2007 247 pages $29.95 Paperback Friedman's practice series KF4550 Designed as a study guide but also suitable as a quick reference or...
Just a number; an international legal analysis on age discrimination. Cotter, Anne-Marie Mooney. Ashgate Publishing Co. 2008 352 pages $124.95 Hardcover K1770 Dr. Cotter, who works with the Social Security Law Firm, has previously...
Choice and consent; feminist engagements with law and subjectivity. Ed. by Rosemary Hunter and Sharon Cowan. Routledge-Cavendish 2007 183 pages $140.00 Hardcover K644 These nine critical analyses include international and multicultural insights on legal...
The Firms Have Filed Discrimination Suits Against USDA for Thousands of African American Farmers DURHAM, N.C. -- Six law firms, McEachin & Gee Virginia, Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders Pettaway & Campbell Alabama, James Scott Farrin North Carolina, Pogust, Braslow & Millrood Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Conlon, Frantz & Phelan...
A federal appeals court has taken laws prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities into territory we don't think those who drafted the laws ever anticipated they would venture. We're sure we never imagined the Rehabilitation Act, passed by Congress in 1973 and a forerunner to the Americans...
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies FSWC today announced that its Glassman Tools for Tolerance® program is gaining momentum with law enforcement communities across Canada, including members of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police CACP and the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police OAC. The CACP and...
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