In one of the most anticipated employment discrimination cases in years, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the City of New Haven discriminated against non-minority firefighters when it chose to ignore the test results of a racially-neutral promotional exam because too few minorities scored high enough on the test to be considered for promotion. I previously wrote about this case and outlined
Judicial Updates
Significant Win for Employers at the High Court: Age Discrimination Plaintiffs Face Higher Burden of Proof
By Russell Cawyer on
In Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court was asked to decide whether a plaintiff must present direct evidence of discrimination in order to obtain a mixed-motive instruction in a non-Title VII discrimination case.
In the case, Plaintiff Gross was employed by FBL Financial Group since 1971. In 2001 he held the…
Obama Nominates Sonia Sotomayor for U.S. Supreme Court
By Russell Cawyer on
Posted in Judicial Updates
By now most of you have read or heard that President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Justice David Souter. Judge Sotomayor is currently an appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit based in New York. She also served on the federal district bench before joining the…