The new Illinois right-to-sue law for employment discrimination: the Illinois Human Rights Act now provides for a right to a jury in the Illinois Circuit Court in employment discrimination cases. But with that new power comes a new set of tactical decisions for parties and practitioners. Here'...
The law was amended in 1986 to remove the upper age cap. [Pictured: President Kennedy speaks on behalf of the anti-discrimination order to the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee in 1961.] 1968: Gun Control Act of 1968 Frank Wolfe // Wikimedia Commons 1968: Gun Control Act of 1968 ...
Hawaii became the first of 34 other states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, but the bill hit anti-feminist backlash in the mid-'70s and failed to become ratified by the necessary 38 states by its July 1982 deadline. [Pictured: Women Equ...
Another black soldier, Wily Anderson, was on leave and killed by sniper bullets. A week later, a white deputy named Lloyd Bosecker was shot in retaliation. Cairo police charged four blacks in connection with the shooting and eleven others for violations of an anti-picketing law. The Burkhart ...
applicant for an Owner’s or Organisation Gaming licence is required to submit details as to how it intends on establishing and maintaining a diversity programme to ensure non-discrimination in the award and administration of contracts, as well as to promote equal opportunity for employment. It is...
Illinois is a sharp contrast to many states across the nation, where anti-trans policies are playing out in schools. Here, state law protects students from discrimination on the basis of their gender identities. Students must be permitted access to bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams alig...
Schizophrenia for Disability Practitioners: The Growing Split Between Federal and Illinois Discrimination LawBerkeley Electronic Press Selected WorksIllinois AdvocateRichard J. Gonzalez
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Illinois General Assembly Minority Leader Jim Durkin introduced the bill amid a spate of antisemitic incidents on the campus
congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof de facto segregation racial segregation that occurs in schools, not as a result of the law, but as a result of patterns of residential settlement racial (discrimination that is not mandated...