EEOC issues new guidelines for avoiding race, color discrimination
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday issued a new compliance manual that is meant to clarify how employers and employees should interpret anti-discrimination laws found in Title VII of the Civil Rights...
The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railroad v. White , a case in which it will decide which of the...
Supreme Court rules in federal immunity, sentencing, discrimination cases
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down decisions in four cases, including Dolan v. U.S. Postal Service , where the Court ruled that a Pennsylvania woman could sue the US Postal Service...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Wendy J. Keefer, former senior counsel and chief of staff in the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy and now with Bancroft Associates in Washington DC, says that on the second day of the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Marsha N. Cohen, Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of Law, says governments have a responsibility to protect individuals' freedom by requiring health care businesses to fully meet health care needs, even over...
Federal court rules Union Pacific must cover contraceptives in health plan
US District Judge for the District of Nebraska Laurie Smith Camp ruled Monday that Union Pacific Railroad discriminated against women by covering a range of preventive drugs, but not contraception, in its health care plan....
9th Circuit: Make-up requirement for waitresses not sex discrimination
In an 2-1 opinion written by Judge A. Wallace Tashima, the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a casino's requirement that its waitresses wear make-up while serving beverages does not constitute sex discrimination in violation of...
