Cases concerning guns, transgender rights, online pornography, workplace discrimination and more are set to be heard during the U.S. Supreme Court’s new nine-month term that begins on Monday. After a blockbuster previous term and action on a variety of cases during the summer on an emergency...
On Oct. 4, 2024, the Supreme Court agreed to review a reverse discrimination case where the petitioner, an Ohio Department of Youth Services employee, claims that she was denied promotion and demoted because she is heterosexual. Some courts, noting the McDonnell Douglas framework’s ...
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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a discrimination case involving a lawyer who was denied a job opportunity with a Christian legal clinic because of his sexual orientation. While the justices decided not to review a lower court decision allowing the lawsuit to move forward, Justice Sam...
United States Supreme Court Justices' Voting in Systemic Racial Discrimination Cases in Education Urban LawyerWasserman, Lewis MConnolly, John PSteen, Pamela L
The Supreme Court, in an unsigned order, said it would review all three cases on the matter, but ordered that two of the cases be combined into one argument asking whether discrimination over sexual orientation falls under Title VII of the Civil Rights act. ...
A pregnancy discrimination case is in front of the Supreme Court and its outcome could affect women across the country. A former UPS worker says she was forced into taking unpaid leave when she became pregnant.
The Supreme Court issued a poorly reasoned ruling in June that makes it much harder for older workers to prove illegal age discrimination (歧视). Fortunately, bills have been introduced in the Senate and House to undo the damage and put age discrimination cases on an equal standpoint with other...
The NAACP wrote in a brief in the matter that "Comcast's arguments would, in many cases, impose an impossible pleading burden on victims of discrimination." The case also attracted the attention of Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who sent a letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts earlier this mo...
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