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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1964 and aimed at preventing discrimination in the workplace on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, and religion. Title VII has been subsequently extended to discrimination on the basis of pregnancy and sexual stereotypes and to prohibit sexual harassment. Title VII applies to all employers with fifteen or more employees including private employers, state and local governments, and educational institutions. less -

The Fifth Circuit Announces New Standard for Pleading a Title VII Claim

Littler on 8/22/2023

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently announced that Title VII plaintiffs are no longer required to plead an “ultimate employment decision" to properly allege a disparate treatment claim. Applying a strict...more

EFAA Update: Only Plausible #MeToo Claims Can Avoid Arbitration

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP on 3/30/2023

The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (the “EFAA”) has been law for just over a year. The bill was signed by President Biden on March 3, 2022, and amended the Federal Arbitration...more

Failing to Cite? Say Bye to Employment Claims in the 5th Circuit

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 10/4/2022

Does a plaintiff have to specify not only the facts but also the law that applies? In Bye v. MGM Resorts, Inc., the Fifth Circuit looks at a common pleading issue: What do you do when a plaintiff pleads facts that may or may...more

Poloceno v. Dallas Indep. Sch. Dist., No. 20-10098, 2020 WL 5494511 (5th Cir. 2020)

TNG Consulting on 10/15/2020

Summary of procedural history: Plaintiff, the parent of A.I., an eleven-year-old student in the Dallas Independent School District (DISD), filed suit alleging DISD subjected A.I. to intentional discrimination based upon...more

U.S. Supreme Court Says Section 1981 Claims Require ‘But For' Causation

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 4/14/2020

Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race in the making of contracts, including employment contracts. Section 1981 is often used by employees suing for race discrimination as...more

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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/23/2019

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

District Court Dismisses Disparate Impact Claim of Inclusive Communities

Ballard Spahr LLP on 9/2/2016

A federal court in Texas recently dismissed a housing discrimination claim that was based on alleged disparate impact under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), the latest in a series of decisions applying landmark U.S. Supreme Court...more

New York Federal Court Judge Expresses Dismay Over NYC Human Rights Law Claim Legal Standard

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 3/11/2016

Sometimes a judge says what many of us are already thinking. In Rivera v. Crowell & Moring L.L.P., Katherine B. Forrest was that judge....more

Second Circuit Refines Title VII Pleading Standard

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/15/2015

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently remanded a former employee’s racial discrimination lawsuit brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In Littlejohn v. City of New York, No. 14-1395 (August 3, 2015),...more

Second Circuit Clarifies Pleading Standard for Title VII Claims

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 8/7/2015

A Second Circuit panel recently revived a former employee’s racial discrimination suit against New York City, reversing in part the Southern District of New York’s dismissal of her case. In Littlejohn v. City of New York,...more

Supreme Court Affirms FHA Disparate Impact Claims

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 7/22/2015

Late last month, the Supreme Court handed down a significant decision affecting rights and obligations under the Fair Housing Act. The Court’s 5-4 decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive...more

Supremes Expand Liability Under FHA

Baker Donelson on 7/15/2015

On June 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a margin of 5-4, held that disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act. Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive...more

Supreme Court Decides Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc.

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 6/26/2015

On June 25, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., No. 13-1371, holding that a disparate-impact claim is cognizable under the Fair...more

Supreme Court Upholds Use of Disparate Impact in FHA Claims

McGuireWoods LLP on 6/26/2015

In a decision certain to have major repercussions for the banking industry, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the use of disparate impact theories of liability – that is, suits that claim a law or practice has a...more

US Supreme Court Upholds Use of Disparate Impact Claims in Fair Lending Enforcement

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 6/26/2015

The US Supreme Court finally weighed in today on whether the disparate impact theory may be used to prove housing discrimination and ruled that such claims are viable under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601 et...more

In 5-4 Decision, U.S. Supreme Court Recognizes Disparate Impact Liability Under the Fair Housing Act

Ballard Spahr LLP on 6/26/2015

The U.S. Supreme Court held today that disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), in a 5-4 opinion authored by Justice Kennedy. He was joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan....more

State Court Lawsuit Removable if Plaintiff-Employee’s Pleadings “Fully Incorporate” EEOC Charge

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/27/2014

“You have been sued.” Upon reading these first few words of a state court citation, most Texas employers—indeed, most employers—make it their first order of business to remove the case to federal court if at all possible....more

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