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Adverse Impact
Adverse impact is defined as a substantially different rate of selection in hiring, promotion, or other employment decision which works to the disadvantage of members of a race, sex, or ethnic group in the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures[1]. A "substantially different" rate is typically defined in government enforcement or Title VII litigation settings using the 80% Rule, statistical significance tests, and/or practical significance tests.
A is for adverse possession...
Via the Billable Hour comes the following greeting card/comic:
Adverse possession, Art 1 and acknowledgements
Ofulue & Anor v Bossert [2008] EWCA Civ 7 deals with an adverse possession case prior to the Land Registration Act 2002...
Material Adverse Effect
There was an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal today about Apollo Management and Hexion Specialty Chemicals suing Huntsman Corp...
confronting adverse authority
Kathy Stanchi (Temple) has posted her new article, Playing with Fire: The Science of Confronting Adverse Authority in Legal Advocacy, on SSRN...
Seasonal Adverse Possession
I posed a question to my 1L tutants earlier in the question regarding adverse possession of a piece of property by two seasonal users unaware of each other...
Adverse possession and estoppel
In St Pancras & Humanist HA v Leonard, the Court of Appeal held that, although Mr Leonard had possession of the relevant property (a garage), he nevertheless was estopped from claiming a right by adverse possession against the Claimant...
Can driving accident be cause for termination?
If your state is an at-will state, the company can fire you for any reason or fo...
IBM Personal Computer unit was recently purchased by a Chinese company. What was the name of that company? What will be the impact on the US computer industry?
Lenovo. They're continuing to produce good product. Short run impact (all other ...

Can driving accident be cause for termination?
If your state is an at-will state, the company can fire you for any reason or fo...
IBM Personal Computer unit was recently purchased by a Chinese company. What was the name of that company? What will be the impact on the US computer industry?
Lenovo. They're continuing to produce good product. Short run impact (all other ...














