EEOC says it’s going after ‘anti-American’ employment discrimination
The acting chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) — Andrea Lucas — announced in February that she ...
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Title VII, Compositionality, and ‘Discriminate Against’
From his abstract: This short essay focuses on a linguistic (and therefore textualist) principle overlooked in the trio of Title VII cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court: compositionality.
Eleventh Circuit Questions Third-Party Liability Under Title VII
A panel of judges pushed the EEOC and attorneys for an employee alleging sex discrimination on whether a third-party staffing company that placed the athletic trainer at a high school is liable under ...
Supreme Court finds 'radical agreement' in employment discrimination case
The Supreme Court seemed to find common ground in a high-profile case brought by a straight woman alleging "reverse" job discrimination in favor of gay people.
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How Far Will the Supreme Court Go to Remedy Reverse Discrimination?
The prevailing legal test for Title VII claims comes from the 1973 case McDonnell Douglas ... telling an applicant that he didn’t hire her because she’s a woman, for example—or circumstantial evidence ...
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EEOC Says Title VII’s Religious-Organization Exemption Doesn’t Apply to Sex Discrimination Claims
For example, the EEOC quotes its religion guidance to explain that a religious organization can raise the Title VII exemption as a defense when the organization “made the challenged employment ...
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SCOTUS to weigh in on reverse discrimination claim brought by heterosexual employee
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, an employment discrimination lawsuit that ...
Supreme Court leans toward reviving straight woman's reverse discrimination claim
The Supreme Court appeared likely to allow a woman to pursue a claim that she was discriminated at work because she is ...
EEOC's Anti-American Bias Focus Will Test Scope of Title VII
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s new enforcement push against anti-American employer practices is poised to test ...
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SCOTUS Argument Recap: Court Appears Likely to Eliminate Heightened Prima Facie Burden for Majority Group Plaintiffs Under Title VII
In a recent oral argument, the Justices seemed largely aligned with the plaintiff’s position that majority and historically disadvantaged ...