Labor & Employment Law

Upcoming Conference: Family Responsibilities Discrimination: Lessons for the Use of Stereotyping Evidence and Implicit Bias in Employment Cases
Friday, February 8, 2008 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. U.C. Hastings College of the Law - San Francisco, CA The rise of “family responsibilities discrimination” (FRD) is being hailed as the most important recent development in employment discrimination law...

Center for Worklife Law
Family Responsibility Discrimination (also called "caregiver discrimination") is "discrimination against workers who have family caregiving responsibilities" and it can affect both women and men, parents of children and children of the elderly...

Thursday April 17, 2008 UC Hastings College of Law's Race & Poverty Law Journal hosts its 2008 Symposium: Confronting Hidden Borders: Immigration and Uniting Communities of Color. It features Eva Paterson (President and Founder of the Equal Justice Society), Lucas...

30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act-A Yale Law School Symposium
The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism is putting on a symposium on the PDA. Registration information and a list of speakers is available here. The Symposium celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act...

Yale Law School Is Hosting A Symposium Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
A Symposium that is being held at Yale Law School on November 7-8th in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. The Symposium, entitled Respecting Expecting: The 30th Anniversary of the PDA, is being organized by the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism...

Paul Hastings rising up the L.A. ranks on AM 100
Paul Hastings is rising up the AM Law 100 rankings among Los Angeles firms, The American Lawyer reported. While Latham still leads the pack in the 2008 ranking, Paul Hastings moved past O'Melveny & Myers and Gibson Dunn in profits...

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

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

Immigration Related Employment Discrimination & Unfair Labor Practices
What to do about employers who discriminate because of national origin

Right-of-Way
City of Hastings pays preacher $1 settlement and $10,000 in legal fees for constitutional right violations.

USCIS
faces class action lawsuit for allegedly denying visas to adult children of immigrant families

Foster Care Chile Molestation
Department of Children & Families pays $175,000 negligence settlement.

Prudential veterans' lawsuit
Families of Deceased Veterans Sue Prudential

Drive Through Discrimination
Jack-in-the Box pays undisclosed racial discrimination settlement to two customers.

Housing Buyer Discrimination
White homeowner settles $30,000 buyer-discrimination lawsuit.