Criminal Law

Race, Unions, and the Presidential Election
NPR's Morning Edition this morning ran a story about Richard Trumka, UMW President and secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, who for the last several months has been giving speeches on the issue of race and the presidential election...

Race & Sex Preferences May Become Legal in UK
PJH Law reports that the British Deputy Prime Minister has announced that the Government is considering a law to allow race and/or gender to be a factor in employers? decision making if two candidates are equally qualified...

Race, Gender, and Making Exceptions
As a resident of Ohio, I feel eminently qualified to comment on the candidates in this election (and, by negative implication, I am not particularly qualified for any other reason)...

Implicit (Unconscious) Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Does Obama Stand a Chance - Part I
First, let me say that I?m humbled to be a guest blogger for the moth of February. I?ve thought a lot about what should be my first post. It would make sense to comment on the Obama-Clinton debate on 1/31/08, but I have a bunch of other thoughts running through my head about the election, [...

Adrienne Maree Brown of the Ruckus Society on Media Justice, Election Protection and the Issue of Race in the 2008 Election
Read the transcript of her Democracy Now! interview by Amy Goodman here. Or watch or listen to it, via links here.

Althouse: Half Right
I?m a big fan of Ann Althouse?s blog, even when I disagree with her, which is about half the time. This post is a good example, both of her strengths and my reaction to them. Regarding the current ?look like? controversy over ?playing the race card,? she effectively ridicules the Obamanaut arguments that the Obama campaign is ?fighting back? against the Republicans injecting race into the campaign...

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Spa Factor
Aromatherapy Fountain & Bath Benefits Kits Recalled

Ballot Device
Election Systems and Software agrees to pays city of San Francisco $3.5 million settlement after problems with AutoMARK lead to prolonged hand counting of votes.

Discrimination
race, gender, disability, religious or age discrimiation.

Wal-Mart
To Pay $17.5 Million To Settle Race Bias Suit

Kodak
Settles Race Discrimination Class Action for $21 Million

Compass Group
Faces Federal Race Discrimination Class Action