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From:Gender Issues (Vol. 16, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Virginia and the Citadel in South Carolina were the two remaining military institutions that excluded women and provided a single-sex education until 1996. That was the year the...
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From:Corrections Caselaw Quarterly (Issue 26)U.S. Appeals Court TITLE VII RETALIATION Petersen v. Utah Dept. of Corrections, 301 F.3d 1182 (10th Cir. 2002). A former employee sued a state corrections department under Title VII, and corrections officials...
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From:Management Review (Vol. 80, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSexual harassment lawsuits have catapulted management's handling of harassment complaints into a Position of considerable importance. Today more than ever @ before, male and female employees work, travel, eat and...
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From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 123, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe Civil Rights Act was remarkably successful in fighting overt bigotry and discrimination, but much less so in combating the subtler, institutionalized disadvantages that are now the main sources of social injustice....
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From:UMass Law Review (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDan Subotnik responds to Andrea Curcio, Carol Chomsky & Eileen Kaufman, Testing, Diversity, and Merit: A Reply to Dan Subotnik and Others, 9 U. Mass. L. Rev. 206 (2014). I. INTRODUCTION "... law schools may have...
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From:The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWHERE ARE WE in the struggle for gay rights in the United States? Are we in the early stages of what will become a successful mass movement for equal civil rights and respect? Or have we reached the highest point of...
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From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 104, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe effect of changes in Congressional procedural rules on the passage of legislation is demonstrated by comparison of the legislative histories of the Civil Rights Acts of 1960 and 1964 with the history of the Civil...
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From:Employee Relations Law Journal (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn March 1991, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that will have a substantial impact on many employers. In International Union, United Autoworkers, et al. v....
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From:Employee Relations Law Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEmployers can be held liable for the sexually harassing actions of their customers. While many businesses employ curvaceous women in skimpy costumes to attract customers and then fill the customers full of booze in an...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 31, Issue 2)One night in February 1968, a small group of South Carolina State University students tried to enter a bowling alley, just off the campus of the historically Black college in Orangeburg, S.C. The students wanted to...
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From:William and Mary Law Review (Vol. 54, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedC. Implications of the Materiality Principle Recognizing the dynamic nature of materiality, particularly for questions involving a voter's eligibility, would yield tangible consequences for the election system. In...
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From:Harvard Law Review (Vol. 135, Issue 7)ENVIRONMENTAL LAW--RACE--FIFTH CIRCUIT JUDGES CAST DOUBT ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SUITS.--Rollerson v. Brazos River Harbor Navigation District, 6 F.4th 633 (5th Cir. 2021). The path toward an environmentally just...
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From:Risk Management (Vol. 65, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedA federal appeals court recently upheld a half-million dollar verdict against a small Chicago retailer after concluding that a male employee was the victim of sex discrimination. Although the employer admitted that much...
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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 109) Peer-ReviewedSupreme Court hears sexual harassment case The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that sexual harassment of an employee by a supervisor violates Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits racial and sexual...
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From:Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA firefighter for the City of Salem, Ohio, sued the fire department and the city for discrimination. The case was based on discrimination related to Smith's (the firefighter's) status as a transsexual. The U.S. Court of...
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From:Harvard Law Review (Vol. 120, Issue 2)TITLE VII--GENDER DISCRIMINATION--NINTH CIRCUIT HOLDS THAT WOMEN CAN BE FIRED FOR REFUSING TO WEAR MAKEUP.--Jespersen v. Harrah's Operating Co., 444 F.3d 1104 (9th Cir. 2006) (en banc). Gender inequality continues to...
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From:Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (Vol. 14, Issue 1)[W]hen the males and females of any animal have the same general habits of life, but differ in structure, colour, or ornament, such differences have been mainly caused by sexual selection....(1) Our settled law in...
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From:Employee Relations Law Journal (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe US Supreme Court's five to four decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc. (1) resolved a conflict among the courts of appeals regarding the proper application of the statute of limitations to pay...
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From:Trial (Vol. 43, Issue 9)For lawyers representing plaintiffs in civil rights cases, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., was one of the most important--and troubling--decisions of the year. (1) In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court held that...
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From:Albany Law Review (Vol. 70, Issue 2)It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.--James Thurber (1894-1961) (1) I. INTRODUCTION It is often stated that "[s]port is a microcosm of society." (2) In some respects, this statement...