discrimination law cases

• Due process of law; obligation of contracts; taking of private property; prohibited discrimination; jury trial in civil cases

• Virginia Constitution

• Baltimore Law Firm's Discrimination Cases Help Pay the Bills

Snider & Associates LLC's big Fair Labor Standards Act settlements on behalf of government employees get attention, but the firm supports that work by handling a high volume of smaller discrimination cases. Most of those cases are against the federal government.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• March 10, 2009

• Letter From the Editor

The second article, by James Concannon, concludes that mixedmotive retaliation claims in employment law are not viable after the Supreme Court's decision in Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. For employment plaintiffs, the article reaches a darker conclusion than Andrew Kenny's recent article, The Meaning of 'Because' in Employment Discrimination Law: Causation in Title VII Retaliation Cases after Gross, published in the University of Chicago Law Review.

• Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
• Vol. 17 Nbr. 1, October 2011

• New Law Changes The Calculation Of The Statute Of Limitations In Pay Discrimination Cases

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (the "Act") was signed into U.S. law on January 29, 2009, by President Obama. The Act effectively overrules a...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English
• Labour and Employment

• State law tort claims - a new weapon in employment discrimination cases? When employees file discrimination claims, they have often been pre-empted from bringing state law tort claims. A recent seventh circuit case, Naeem v McKesson Drug Co, suggests that courts may be headed in a new direction.

Plaintiffs' employment lawyers have long been limited to litigating unfair employment practices claims under various federal employment laws or their ...

• Illinois Bar Journal
• Vol. 95 Nbr. 3, March 2007

• New Law Changes The Calculation Of The Statute Of Limitations In Pay Discrimination Cases.

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (the "Act") was signed into U.S. law on January 29, 2009, by President Obama. The Act effectively overrules a...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• University at Buffalo Professors Study Employment Discrimination Suits

A study by University at Buffalo sociology professors published in Law & Society Review found that both plaintiffs and defendants typically feel dissatisfied in employment discrimination cases. The study, titled "Situated Justice: A Contextual Analysis of Fairness and Inequality in Employment Discrimination Litigation," by Professors Ellen Berrey and Steven G. Hoffman, utilized a random sample of attorneys, plaintiffs and defendants involved in discrimination cases.

• Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
• June 11, 2012

• W.Va.'S First Black Lawyer Will Be the Focus of Culture and History Lecture

R. Clifford - West Virginia's first black lawyer - will be the topic of a Tuesday night lecture at The Division of Culture and History. Clifford, who's landmark Williams v. the Board of Education of Tucker County put racial discrimination cases on the map, made major contributions in education, newspapers, civil rights and law.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• February 06, 2012

• Fitzgerald Picks Mt. Lebanon Attorney for Allegheny County Solicitor

Allegheny County's executive has nominated an attorney from Mt. Lebanon for the post of county solicitor. Andrew F. Szefi, 40, a partner in the Downtown law firm Goehring Rutter & Boehm, is a member of the practice's municipal law, litigation and real estate practice groups. He has experience as a litigator in employment discrimination, eminent domain and construction law cases.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• February 17, 2012

• Age Discrimination

...Landmark Discrimination Cases. A number of landmark cases have interpreted the A...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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