Litigation

Supreme Court: Kentucky Disability Pension Plan Not Age Discriminatory
In a case that should be of interest for employment discrimination and employee benefit scholars, Kentucky Retirement Systems v. EEOC, the Supreme Court in a close 5-4 decision has found the Kentucky public pension plan not to be age discriminatory...

Second Circuit confirms existence of "ministerial exception" to federal anti-discrimination laws, holding that it would be unconstitutional to apply Title VII in African-American Catholic priest's lawsuit alleging racially discriminatory firing
Second Circuit confirms existence of "ministerial exception" to federal anti-discrimination laws, holding that it would be unconstitutional to apply Title VII in African-American Catholic priest's lawsuit alleging racially discriminatory firing: You can access today's ruling by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U...

City of Baltimore Sues Wells Fargo Over Predatory and Discriminatory Mortgage Lending
by Brian Wolfman Read this Baltimore Sun article about the City of Baltimore's suit alleging that Wells Fargo engaged in predatory and racially discriminatory lending against Baltimore citizens...

N.J. Supreme Court Says Religious Slurs Create a Hostile Workplace
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that a person bringing a claim of workplace discrimination based on religion does not have a higher burden of proof than those charging discrimination based on gender or race...

Supreme Court Takes Employment Discrimination Issue
An important employment law question will be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court with a couple of Nashville lawyers on the case. The issue is “cat’s paw” liability and the employer is represented by Todd Presnell and Kara Shea in the Nashville office of Miller & Martin PLLC...

Alito and Roberts Blow a Case
It behooves us who have fought for confirmations of judicial conservatives to monitor the performance of those judges after they reach the bench. As this site's earliest and fiercest advocate for Samuel Alito, and as somebody who continues to admire Alito greatly and who is still happy Alito is on the bench, I must now regretfully report that Alito has written a real stinker of an opinion, joined by all the other justices except the superb Clarence Thomas (who wrote the dissent) and Antonin Scalia...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Arkansas Nucor Plant Guilty of a Racially Hostile Work Environment
Nucor Guilty Of Racially Hostile Work Environment Must Pay $1.2 Million Settlement

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.

National Association of Realtors
Settlement reached in broker listing antitrust lawsuit, pending court approval.

Missouri Attorney General's Office
$26,000 settlement reached in disability discrimination lawsuit, pending court approval.