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Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services

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In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that Title VII’s protections against discrimination do not require majority group individuals (including white people, men, and heterosexuals) to...more

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US Supreme Court Clarifies That FLSA Worker Exemption Disputes Should Be Determined on a Preponderance-of-the-Evidence Evidentiary...

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On January 15, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Fourth Circuit’s attempt to require an employer to meet a higher evidentiary standard to establish that its workers fell under one of the Fair Labor Standards Act...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The Italian Job: Fifth Circuit Confirms Pleading Standard for National Origin Discrimination Claim

Employment law is full of burden-shifting, prima facie standards and evidentiary hurdles. Sometimes, even the courts apply the wrong standard at the wrong stage of a case. That appears to be what happened in the case of...more

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