The 4th Circuit recently vacated, in part, the District Court’s ruling, in EEOC v. Xerxes, on defendant’s summary judgment motion in a Title VII racially hostile work environment claim. Specifically, in Xerxes (fiberglass tank manufacturer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota), the 4th Circuit held that there was an issue of material…
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Blakely expounds on the free culture movement, using fashion design as an example, and debunks all the dogma behind intellectual property laws, which restrict ownership and provide for centralized control of financial transactions. The open source software movement, and now the open source wiki/blog movements, have thrived and produced far…
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) has unveiled a series of proposed rule changes that would prohibit lenders from using sexual orientation or gender identity as a way of determining a borrower’s eligibility. The Fair Housing Act does not prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, like…
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Stafford is hosting a 90-minute webinar and teleconference entitled Estate Planning Strategies for Same-Sex or Unmarried Partners on May 12. (10)
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According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, conservative blogger Andrew Breibart has posted edited videos of lectures by labor studies professors at the University of Missouri ostensibly appearing to advocate union violence, thereby falsely misrepresenting them as inciters of violence (i.e., unprotected speech). Not only were distorted depictions of educators…
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The arcane rules governing personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens (doctrines governing whether a U.S. court may exercise jurisdiction over the litigants and whether the forum is suitably appropriate) are rarely, if ever, intellectually stimulating. In the political and international context, civil procedure can be mildly topical, however. According to…
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In Sinkov v. Americor, the Second Circuit recently affirmed the lower court’s ruling in a prison suicide case, wherein it was held that defendant Americor Inc., a for-profit company providing “services” to Putnam County Jail, deliberately disregarded the known suicide risk to Sinkov, an inmate who hung himself in his…
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Happy Mother’s Day weekend to all moms out there — mothers, daughters, sons, fathers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, brothers, and anyone else who has had the honor of serving in the role as “mother.” My mother was 19 when she emigrated from Guyana to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with me, 9 months…
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