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May 28, 2008 |

High Court Sides With Plaintiffs in 2 Employment Suits

In a pair of workplace discrimination cases, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for workers to sue employers who retaliate against them for reporting bias.
4 minute read
November 15, 2007 |

9th Circuit Rebukes Judge for Tossing Suit

A federal judge was reversed and rebuked by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. An appeals court panel reversed U.S. District Judge Manuel Real for throwing out a plaintiff's case when an attorney failed to appear for a hearing that was noticed by e-mail only. In the unsigned per curiam opinion, the three 9th Circuit judges also said Real acted with "unseemly haste" by dismissing the case in spite of a "perfectly plausible (and meritorious) explanation" from plaintiffs attorney Stanley Raskin.
2 minute read
May 28, 2008 |

High Court OKs Suits Against Retaliation Over Workplace Claims

In a pair of workplace discrimination cases, the Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for workers to sue employers who retaliate against them for reporting bias. One ruling, affecting private employers, will give employees more time to file suit and larger potential damage awards when they claim employer retaliation than they had before. In the other case, the justices ruled that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act also covers retaliation claims brought by federal workers against their employers.
3 minute read
September 15, 2003 |

Inadmissible

Short takes on lawyers, forms and judges.
4 minute read
May 28, 2008 |

High court OKs suits against retaliation over workplace claims

In a pair of workplace discrimination cases, the Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for workers to sue employers who retaliate against them for reporting bias. One ruling, affecting private employers, will give employees more time to file suit and larger potential damage awards when they claim employer retaliation than they had before. In the other case, the justices ruled that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act also covers retaliation claims brought by federal workers against their employers.
3 minute read
May 27, 2008 |

High Court OKs Suits Against Retaliation Over Workplace Claims

In a pair of workplace discrimination cases, the Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for workers to sue employers who retaliate against them for reporting bias.
4 minute read
May 27, 2008 |

Supreme Court Makes It Easier For Employers to Sue for Retaliation

In a pair of workplace discrimination cases, the Supreme Court on May 27 made it easier for workers to sue employers who retaliate against them for reporting bias.
3 minute read
June 20, 2005 |

Prosecutors, Peremptory Challenges and the Death Penalty

After nearly 20 years of appeals, Texas death row inmate Thomas Miller-El persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court on June 13 to overturn his conviction because of the racial bias that tainted the selection of the jury in his murder trial.
9 minute read
May 28, 2008 |

Justices Rule in Favor of Employees

The Supreme Court ruled in two workplace discrimination cases, making it easier for workers to sue employers over retaliation.
4 minute read
Matter of Morisseau, M-2-238
Publication Date: 2011-02-10
Practice Area: Legal Profession
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Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
Judge: District Judge Jed S. Rakoff
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Case number: M-2-238

Cite as: Matter of Morisseau, M-2-238, NYLJ 1202480930166, at *1 (SDNY, Decided February 7, 2011)District Judge Jed S. RakoffDecided: Feb

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