From NYLJ: Allegations that women lawyers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are paid thousands of dollars less each year than men doing substantially equal work have been thrown out by a Manhattan federal judge. Southern District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald (See Profile) dismissed a lawsuit…
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Charlie Sullivan (Seton Hall) has just posted on SSRN his article Tortifying Employment Discrimination. Here’s the abstract: Although Title VII is often described as a “statutory tort,” that label has, until recently, been mostly metaphorical. In Staub v. Proctor Hospital Corp., however, the Supreme Court took an important first step…
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Wendy Greene has just posted her article “Black Women Can’t Have Blonde Hair . . . in the Workplace” on SSRN. The abstract: This Article introduces a recent string of “hair stories” involving the regulation of Black women’s blonde hair in the workplace. At first glance, these “hair stories” appear…
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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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