Over the past fifty years, the body of law prohibiting discrimination in employment has grown enormously in terms of the extent of geographic coverage, the range of covered employers …
Imagine a plaintiff's employment discrimination lawyer-let's call her Zoe-meeting a new client. Austin, the new client, tells Zoe a familiar story. He believes he wasn't promoted at …
The success of the Civil Rights Era in eliminating barriers that once categorically excluded minority workers from many employment positions has brought a new set of concerns to the …
This country begins the twenty-first century with the legal presumption that everyone is entitled to equal opportunities to gain access to the workplace. 1 Yet, numerous sectors of …
♦ Attorney, Chapman, Young & Young, Cullman, Alabama; BBA, University of Montevallo, 1974; JD, Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, 1977. The author wishes to …
A Weinstein - Washington University Law Quarterly, 1990 - journals.library.wustl.edu
Tracy Walker, a light-skinned black person, was an employee of the Internal Revenue Service. 5 Walker's immediate supervisor, Ruby Lewis, was a dark-skinned black person. 6 …
It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer:(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise to discriminate against an individual with respect to …
Enactment of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with a provision for the awarding of attorneys' fees, opened new opportunities for attorneys in private practice to represent …
Tide VU2 clearly sets forth that an employer may not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. 3 However, what happens when an employer only …