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How Does the 'Stray Remark' Defense Stand After 'Single Slur' Ruling?
Imagine you are somehow different from your co-workers. Imagine your supervisor assigns you work that is well below your skill level while other, less experienced employees receive complex and interesting tasks. Imagine someone repeatedly writes derogatory comments on a time sheet clearly directed to you. Imagine the penultimate insult occurs when your supervisor brands you with a slur and threatens to fire you in front of a crowd. Two weeks after you report the threat and degradation, the company unceremoniously fires you for "lack of work."
How companies should prep for enforcement shift to state AGs
“Top Cop” is how every state Attorney General wants to be known. In reality, state AGs have far more authority for civil enforcement…
Nothing 'Negative' About Philadelphia Lawyers? Texans Talk It Over in Duane Morris Case
Is running a trial practice at a corporate Phlia. firm "kind of like being the second-best ballerina in Galveston"? Maybe to these Houston litigators.
Investors' Lawyer Says $750M Suit Could 'Bankrupt' Duane Morris
Plaintiffs in a 2-year-old lawsuit against Philadelphia's Duane Morris filed an amended petition that ups their damage calculations to over three-quarters of a billion dollars, according to Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee, who represents the investor group behind the suit.Single Slur Can Establish Workplace Harassment, 3rd Circuit Rules
A single racial slur in the workplace may be enough to establish a lawsuit for harassment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled July 14.
Single Slur Can Establish Workplace Harassment, 3rd Circuit Rules
A single racial slur in the workplace may be enough to establish a lawsuit for harassment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled today.Clarifying…
Millennial Energy Partners Hires Clay Brett as GC
Houston-based Millennial Energy Partners has hired Clay Brett as vice president and general counsel.
Advocates Push to Ban NY From Accepting Fracking Waste
Environmental groups are making a last-ditch effort to bank hydraulic fracturing waste from coming into New York from neighboring states like Pennsylvania.
Class Arbitration of Oil and Gas Leases: An Update on 'Chesapeake Appalachia'
On April 28, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann of the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued the latest opinion in a series of high-profile decisions regarding class arbitrability of oil and gas leases. In Chesapeake Appalachia v. Scout Petroleum, 4:14-CV-0620, (M.D. Pa. April 28), Brann granted Chesapeake's motion for partial summary judgment, and entered a declaratory judgment that the leases at issue do not permit class arbitration, and instead require individual (or bilateral) arbitration. Brann's opinion rejected Scout's novel argument that as a matter of Pennsylvania contract law, class arbitration was impliedly authorized under the leases.Pennsylvania Instant Case Service Download Page (2016 Cases)
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