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
Significant Win for Employers at the High Court: Age Discrimination Plaintiffs Face Higher Burden of Proof
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 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
U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Oral Argument in Reverse Discrimination Case
Adam Liptak of the New York Times had an interesting preview about an important employment law case scheduled to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this month. In Ricci v. Destafano, scheduled for oral argument on April 22, 2009, the Court is being asked to determine whether the City of New Haven’s
Supreme Court Holds Collective Bargaining Agreement Can Require Arbitration of Age Discrimination Claims
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court held that provisions in collective bargaining agreements that clearly and unmistakably require union members to submit statutory discrimination claims to the grievance and dispute resolution provisions of the agreement are binding and enforceable.
In 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett , a dispute arose over a commercial office building’s reassignment of night watchmen employees