Litigation of cases for race, sex, religious, and disability discrimination is complex and constantly evolving. For plaintiff and defense counsel, Civil Rights in the Workplace is an invaluable guide to the specific aspects of employment discrimination litigation under the antidiscrimination statutes and their progeny. Covering the scope of relevant legislation and analyzing Supreme Court cases in depth, Civil Rights in the Workplace addresses jury trials, compensatory and punitive damages, proof of disparate impact and treatment, theories of liability, statutes of limitations, attorneys’ fees and costs, special problems of sex discrimination and disability discrimination, and more.
Civil Rights in the Workplace provides updated coverage of legislative and other developments and new case law, including:
Case law identifying factual situations in which plaintiffs can maintain class actions notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s holding in Epic Systems favoring individual arbitration
New case law holding that sexual-orientation discrimination and transgender discrimination violate Title VII
New case law considering discrimination against undocumented Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals migrants as a violation of Section 1981
New case law on the threshold for discriminatory harassment
New case law on the duty to mitigate damages
New case law on eligibility for back pay and front pay
A New Supreme Court case on coverage of small state and local government employers by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
New analysis of the requirement to exhaust state and federal administrative remedies
New case law on the threshold mental state for punitive damages
New case law on jury instructions and jury interrogatories in disability retaliation cases New case law on the jurisdictional effect of time limits
New case law on fee and cost shifting
New case law on claim preclusion as between federal and state claims
New case law on flaws in statistical analysis to prove disparate impact
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