I can pinpoint the exact moment that this blog transcended to the next level of internet excellence. It was back in late March, when I blogged here about a female bartender/server who had sued her employer, the Wild Beaver Saloon, for pregnancy discrimination. The retweets that day were off the…
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Woman fired for fighting at a cheese plant wins bias claim
I can’t make this stuff up if I tried. The Associated Press reports that the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commissions has ordered a local employer to pay $38,700 in back pay and interest to a female employee it fired for fighting at a cheese-making plant. According to the report, Rosalind Brown…
Booze, wild beaver, and a pregnant bartender. What!
Congratulations! Because you are reading this post, you somehow made it past your company’s internet firewall. That, or you’re a horny perv, Googling some effed-up search terms. But I’m a lawyer; I don’t judge. Either way, continue reading. After the jump, it’s the female bartender/server who is now suing her…
New Jersey applies Lilly Ledbetter Act to LAD case
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How do PA, NJ, and DE address discrimination based on sexual orientation?
Recently, I read an article by Bob Egelko in the San Francisco Chronicle about a speech from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in which he told law students from U.C. Hastings that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees equal protection to all U.S. citizens, do not…