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: ACS BlogNew Study On Employment Discrimination Cases Subject of Judiciary Committee Hearing
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) displays a copy of an article from a forthcoming issue of the Harvard Law & Policy Review, the official journal of ACS. The occassion was a hearing this week highlighting how the federal courts treat employment discrimination cases. Cyrus Mehri, founding partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm Mehri & Skalet, was among the panelists testifying before the committee. Leahy asked one of panelists to elaborate on the article's findings that employment discrimination cases increasingly fare poorly in the federal courts. The article, by Cornell Law School Dean Stewart J. Schwab and Cornell Law Professor Kevin Clermont, was also the center of a recent panel discussion hosted by ACS.
Full post as published by ACS Blog on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).
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