Today the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a decision by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals that had previously held that Abercrombie could not be held liable for not accommodating an
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$1 “Nominal” Damages But $300,000 Punitive Damages Awarded In Sexual Harassment Case
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Punitive damages are generally difficult to obtain. And under Supreme Court precedent, punitive damages greater than ten times an award of compensatory damages is generally considered “grossly excessive,” raises due …
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“A Bar Too High” And Other Pretexts For Discrimination
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Reorganization, reduction in force (“RIF”), merger of departments – these are only a few reasons which employers give when firing an employee – and which is frequently alleged to be …
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Church Music Director Alleges Firing Because Of Engagement To Male Partner: Does The “Ministerial Exception” Apply?
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A newly filed EEOC charge alleges that The Holy Family Catholic Community in Inverness, Ill fired its 17-year music director when the director announced on Facebook that he had just…
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Title VII Remedies: Not Just Money!
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There are two takeaways in today’s post.
First: Beating a dead horse, we are constrained to remind health care and medical providers, yet again, that the EEOC continues …
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“Ooh You Are A Smooth Talker. You Are… You Are!”
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We wrote a post the other day entitled “Is There A Duty To Mitigate Emotional Damages?”
In it we cited a case where a court held that the EEOC was…
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Grooming Policies: A Long-Haired Employee “Cannot Drag His Hair Thru The Food”
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A couple of readers of our blog post yesterday relating to employer dress and grooming policies helpfully added a couple of points about an employer’s legitimate health and safety concerns,…
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Is There A Duty To Mitigate Emotional Damages?
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Our post the other day about plaintiff/employee’s requirement of mitigating damages in employment discrimination cases drew some good comments, posted below.
But before we get to the comments, we wanted…
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Volunteer Red Cross Nuns Tossed Out Of Court
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OK, so we engaged in a little Page 6 headline hyperbole – the Nuns were not literally “tossed out” of the court, but just had their discrimination claims dismissed. But…
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Employers: Don’t Forget That Employees Must Mitigate Damages
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We have written little about the requirement in Title VII (and the other anti-discrimination laws) that a plaintiff-employee has a duty to mitigate damages. This may be because many lawyers…
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