Court Elaborates On Types Of Evidence For Proof Of Discrimination The recent case of Merritt v. Old Dominion Freight is hands down one of the best decisions I have come across in a long time. It addresses gender discrimination, sex stereotyping, and a corporate culture of discrimination in a way few cases have. It’s simply …
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Bankers and Police Officers Charged With Gender Discrimination, Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Two vastly different professions – banking and law enforcement – yet they share something in common and that is a culture of gender discrimination. It’s the same stuff that’s been going on for decades in spite of federal laws which make sex discrimination, …
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Employee Fired For Taking Medical Leave Gets Jury Verdict Reinstated When does too much time off for an illness justify a termination because of poor attendance? Not every time according to a case decided this past week from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Here’s what happened. Facts Of The Case Edward Carmona worked for …
Admission Of EEOC “No Probable Cause“ Determination Is Reversible Error I ran across this case recently and I think it’s definitely worth talking about. It deals with a real problem in discrimination cases that has been around for as long as I can remember and it affects just about everyone who files an EEOC charge. …
Direct Evidence Of Age Discrimination Gets Plaintiff Jury Trial: Court Wrongfully Applied Mixed Motive Standard To Bounce The Case It’s hard to believe that this age discrimination victim got thrown out of court and had to go to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for a reversal but here’s what happened in the recently decided …
Age Discrimination Plaintiff Gets Great Decision From Court of Appeals It looks like a typical age discrimination scenario. A supervisor makes hostile remarks about older employees and expresses a preference for younger ones. An older employee with an excellent record gets fired for trumped-up reasons and a younger employee is hired to replace her. What …
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Did the Supreme Court Discriminate Against Victims of Age Discrimination? The only good thing to say about the new age discrimination case of Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. is that it will be gone in a flash. There are so many things wrong with it that it’s hard to know where to begin, and …
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Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
