by Tim Coffield | Jun 11, 2019 | Supreme Court, Uncategorized
In Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986), the Supreme Court recognized for the first time that sexual harassment is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.. As discussed in an earlier post, Title VII protects employees from workplace...
by Tim Coffield | May 16, 2019 | Supreme Court, Uncategorized
In Smith v. City of Jackson, Miss., 544 U.S. 228 (2005), the Supreme Court recognized that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, authorizes disparate impact claims. This means that an employee, to prevail on an age...
by Tim Coffield | Apr 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
In Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228 (1989), the Supreme Court recognized Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination necessarily includes a prohibition on gender stereotyping. The female employee in Price Waterhouse was denied a promotion because she was...
by Tim Coffield | Mar 19, 2019 | Supreme Court, Uncategorized
The Supreme Court classic Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co., 328 U.S. 680 (1946), concerned the extent to which employees’ pre-work activities are compensable working time under the Fair Labor Standards Act (for the text of the FLSA, go here). The case also...
by Tim Coffield | Feb 12, 2019 | Supreme Court, Uncategorized
The Supreme Court’s decision in Griggs v. Duke Power Company, 401 U.S. 424 (1971), addressed the Title VII issues created by employer policies that are facially neutral, but which adversely impact employees on the basis of race, sex, or religion. In short, the Griggs...
by Tim Coffield | Jan 18, 2019 | Supreme Court, Uncategorized
In the landmark McDonnell Douglas Corporation v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973), the Supreme Court described a burden-shifting framework by which employees can prove their employers engaged in unlawful discrimination under Title VII without any “direct” evidence of...
