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Religious Discrimination

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Discrimination is prejudicial treatment related to (or inappropriate consideration of) an individual's actual or perceived membership in a particular class, group or category, such as an individual's... more +

Ninth Circuit Rules on Caste as a Protected Class in CSU’s Anti-Discrimination Policy

Meyers Nave on 3/21/2025

On March 12, 2025, the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Kumar v. Koester, dismissing a constitutional challenge to a university’s anti-discrimination policy that added “caste” as a protected class. Effective January 1,...more

Deliberate Indifference to Bullying Can Amount to Massive Liability – Lessons from the Pine Bush Settlement

Pullman & Comley - School Law on 7/20/2015

$4.48 million. That’s how much the Pine Bush School District in central-New York just agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of current and former students who alleged that school administrators were...more

Employers: Don’t Forget About the Possibility of Associational Discrimination Liability

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 1/29/2015

A case out of a New York State appeals court should remind employers that they may liable for discrimination where they take an adverse action against an employee based on the employee’s association with someone in a...more

Appellate Division Panel Issues Ruling Broadly Interpreting New York State Human Rights Law

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/27/2015

On January 14, 2015, in a case of first impression, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department held that an employee can sufficiently demonstrate his membership in a protected class by virtue of his...more

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Ninth Circuit Rules on Caste as a Protected Class in CSU’s Anti-Discrimination Policy

Deliberate Indifference to Bullying Can Amount to Massive Liability – Lessons from the Pine Bush Settlement

Employers: Don’t Forget About the Possibility of Associational Discrimination Liability

Appellate Division Panel Issues Ruling Broadly Interpreting New York State Human Rights Law

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