A North Carolina federal court granted summary judgment to JC Penney on Title VII claims by Black female sales associate, finding lack of evidence for harassment claims and failure to exhaust ...
Who Knew—and When? $1.6M Hostile-Work Environment Verdict Tossed Because the defendants were unaware the plaintiff was suffering from a mental disability until the attorney said so in a letter on Jan.
A Louisiana federal court granted summary judgment to ExxonMobil on Title VII hostile work environment claims by a Black ...
It is both ironic and infuriating that the Chair of the agency tasked with upholding our anti-discrimination laws now actively participates in discrimination,” the plaintiff’s attorney said.
On September 25, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a significant decision in Chislett v. New York City Department of Education et al, partially reversing summary judgment ...
As civil rights law practitioners, we often find ourselves tracing the edges of complex issues, trying to determine where protected expression ends and discriminatory conduct begins. Nowhere is this ...
My latest article, Title VI Hostile Environment Law in the Shadow of Antisemitic Violence, forthcoming in the Journal of Free Speech Law, is now available to download. The article is forty pages long, ...