Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Act

Dictionary Definitions Prove Decisive - SCOTUS Today

Epstein Becker & Green on 2/27/2025

Yesterday was a day of unanimity at the U.S. Supreme Court, and what the Justices were unanimous about was a textually literal approach to applying dictionary definitions to resolve statutory disputes....more

Supreme Court to Decide: Can Class Actions Be Certified If Some Class Members Lack Standing?

McGlinchey Stafford on 1/30/2025

On January 24, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis, No. 24-304, and will attempt to resolve a circuit split regarding whether federal district courts can...more

Federal Court Rules That Plaintiff’s Claims of Sex Discrimination Against a School District Were Sufficiently Pled

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 9/20/2023

Colavecchia v. South Side Area Sch. Dist., No. 2:22-CV-01804-CCW, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70461 (W.D. Pa. April 21, 2023). The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania denied South Side Area School...more

Court Ruling Shows (Again) How Depositions Save Money in Litigation

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 7/20/2023

The international law firm McGuire Woods recently published a news note, Virginia Court Holds School Board Immune From Virginia Human Rights Act Claims, explaining how a local school board successfully raised a sovereign...more

Behind the Bio: Attorney and Activist, Aarthi Manohar

Legal Internet Solutions Inc. on 3/8/2023

Attorney and activist, Aarthi Manohar, joins host Julie Owsik Ackerman, writer/storyteller/lawyer, for this month’s episode of our new series, Behind the Bio. Each month, Julie interviews a different lawyer to explore the...more

Fifth Circuit Finds Specific Allegation of One-Time Use of Racial Slur Sufficient to Preclude Dismissal Under Rule 12(b)(6)

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/22/2022

On March 24, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) dismissal for failure to state a claim on a pro se plaintiff’s hostile work environment...more

Fort Bend County v. Davis: SCOTUS Bends Employers' Defense to Title VII Claims, But Doesn't Break It

Snell & Wilmer on 6/14/2019

On June 3, 2019, the United States Supreme Court ("Supreme Court") unanimously held in Fort Bend County v. Davis that federal courts may be able to hear claims brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title...more

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