Post Tagged with: "Title VII"

• Supreme Court Hears Wal-Mart Sex Discrimination Case Certification

  Consumers and Corporations, Courts, Issue Areas, Sex Equality March 30, 2011 at 9:44 am 3 comments

  The Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday on a challenge to the certification of a class-action lawsuit on behalf of female employees against the giant retailer Wal-Mart. In the case Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes, Wal-Mart is challenging a 9th Circuit certification of a class of all female employees, arguing it [...]

   

• Article: Ricci v. DeStefano: Declaring Civil War within Title VII – By William Yeomans

  Amicus, Courts, Issue Areas, Labor and Employment, Outside Author, Race and Immigration February 25, 2010 at 8:19 am 2 comments

  It is the height of folly to make hard and fast predictions about the impact of freshly minted Supreme Court decisions, especially when the Court announces a new standard. Yet it is safe to predict that Ricci v. DeStefano, while not as devastating as some advocates have feared, will discourage [...]

   

• Article: Making Employment Civil Rights Real – by Stephen Churchill

  Amicus, Issue Areas, Labor and Employment, Outside Author, Race and Immigration February 25, 2010 at 8:17 am 1 comment

  When Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, it was heralded as a long-overdue measure to eradicate discrimination. The law has had a profound effect on the workplace, both by helping to establish a public ethic against discrimination and by providing a mechanism by which victims of [...]