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The legal academy lost one of its finest scholars and teachers when Professor Deborah Rhode of Stanford Law School died on January 8, 2020, at the age of 68. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Deborah L. Brake
Part Two in a Two-Part SeriesProposed new Title IX regulations purport to help students who experience sexual harassment and assault, but predominantly help schools and those accused of sexual violence instead. [read post]
21 Jun 2020, 9:02 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Deborah L. Brake
Coronavirus may have forced the LGBT community to forego the parades that have come to mark Gay Pride Month, but the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. [read post]
12 Oct 2016, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The release of the now-infamous 2005 video in which Donald Trump boasts about what he can do to women may have caused his campaign to spiral downward, but it also has sparked a national conversation about gender and sexual assault. [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Deborah L. Brake
Leigh Castergine was the first woman to become a Senior Vice President in the Front Office of the Mets, a once-beloved, but now losing Major League Baseball team in New York. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Deborah L. Brake
By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of Peggy Young, a UPS driver who claimed she was illegally discriminated against when she was denied a workplace accommodation that was made available to other employees with similar physical restrictions. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Deborah L. Brake
With forty years under its belt, Title IX is rightfully lauded for having not just leveled, but transformed the playing field for women and girls. [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Deborah L. Brake
.As we wrote in Part One of this series, the Supreme Court just ruled, by a vote of 6-3, that Peggy Young, a pregnant UPS driver who was denied a light-duty accommodation that was routinely made available to other employees with similar lifting restrictions, should have the opportunity to prove on remand that this denial was discriminatory. [read post]
All eyes were on the Supreme Court as it closed out its term with landmark decisions that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, gutted the Voting Rights Act, and narrowly preserved the ability of colleges and universities to use affirmative action in admissions. [read post]
15 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Thank you, Hollywood, for providing law professors with the perfect exam hypothetical about pay discrimination. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The court then dismissed her retaliation claim because she could not reasonably have believed the rumors constituted discrimination—and she therefore was not entitled to protection from retaliation for complaining (an application of the specious “reasonable belief” doctrine that Deborah Brake and I discuss here).The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court on its dismissal of Parker’s first two counts—hostile work environment and… [read post]
12 Oct 2015, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
(Deborah Brake and I examine studies about other obstacles to perceiving and challenging discrimination here.) [read post]
8 May 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
As law professor Deborah Brake has argued, “this defense has the potential to unravel altogether the comparator-driven model of the pay discrimination claim. [read post]