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Showing posts with label discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discrimination. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Women 'knew their place' turns out to be losing union argument to justify discrimination in port jobs

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Herman Melville boarded the Acushnet at New Bedford Harbor in 1841. RJ Peltz-Steele, 2022, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 From the Massachusetts Appeals C...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Florida A&M moves to fire Latina law prof who spoke on public concern; Hispanic law students resist

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You may review and sign on to a letter of the FAMU Hispanic American Law Student Association opposing Reyes's termination here.   Prof. ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Taxpayers help to fatten Big Law in prosecution that Chinese community chalks up to racial profiling

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Rawpixel CC0 The American trend to embrace attorney fee-shifting is a cash cow for the corporate defense bar. A pending case speaks to the ...
Monday, July 4, 2022

U.S. footballers celebrate equal pay settlement

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Alex Morgan (Jamie Smed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons) I was elated in April to hear of a proposed $24m settlement in the equal pay dispu...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Court thins line between hate speech, free speech, while deepening European continental divide

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Mural in Sofia, Bulgaria (2019 photo by RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) A politician's racist hate speech and Holocaust denial were to...
Monday, April 12, 2021

From soccer pitch to memoir, and now to White House, Rapinoe shines in USWNT equal pay crusade

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Rapinoe speaks at the White House (from White House video). Today a federal district court in California is expected to approve a partial se...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Collateral to drug-testing race discrimination suit, Boston wins chance to demand indemnity by lab

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National Archives Is hair-follicle drug testing racially discriminatory? That was not the question before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial...
Monday, February 1, 2021

See America in black and white

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13th Amendment With the imprimatur of federal law , today is National Freedom Day , celebrating the day that President Abraham Lincoln signe...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Oberlin case leaves no doubt, 'racist' accusation is capable of defamatory meaning; Koppel reports

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An Ohio jury in June awarded $44m to a family-owned bakery that proved defamation by Oberlin College in a case of false accusations of rac...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Student prevails in part in UMass Amherst due process disciplinary case in First Circuit

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Last week the First Circuit held in favor of a student accused of a violent assault; however, the court largely upheld as constitutional th...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

New Kramer book tells tales of civil rights

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My friend and colleague, and scholar extraordinaire, Professor Zachary Kramer has just published a new book on civil rights, Outsiders: W...
Friday, January 19, 2018

#MeToo much?

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On Boston Public Radio yesterday , the usually staunchly civil rights-sensitive Jim Braude, a former union attorney, and media personality ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Mass. SJC refuses worker-union privilege in civil discovery

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court refused to find a worker-union evidentiary privilege in a civil lawsuit by an educator against...