The legal profession has seen remarkable strides in gender equality over the years. Women lawyers, once a rarity in the field, have become a driving force in the pursuit of civil rights and justice. In this blog post, we celebrate …
Micha Star Liberty, founding partner of Liberty Law, is speaking tonight at University of San Francisco School of Law. She will be addressing the Labor and Employment Law Students Association on the topic of “Social Justice in the Workplace.” “Anytime …
Earlier this year, Kylar Broadus became the first transgendered witness to testify before the Senate. Broadus was born a woman and underwent gender reassignment surgery in the 1990s. He testified in support of the Employee Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a proposal …
Fishel Litzman, a 38-year old father of five, was kicked out of the police academy this month for the length of his beard. Just weeks from graduation, Mr. Litzman was informed that his beard did not comply with New York …
A San Francisco based sports-talk station is engaged in a messy and public dispute with a former longtime on-air personality. Ralph “The Razor” Barbieri, 66, has both type 2 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. He claims that those conditions, as well …
A lawsuit was filed against the University of Tennessee and athletic director Dave Hart by former Lady Vols media director Debby Jennings, who alleges that she was forced to retire early because of her sex and age.
Jennings, who has …
Racial profiling is terrible as it is, but to do it to a young 13 year old boy in his neighborhood is abhorrent.
A Northwestern professor is suing the Evanston police officer and the City of Evanston after her son …
It is the year 2012, and yet racism is still prevalent in the work environment.
In July, an Asian couple ordered food from a Hooters in Queens, expecting greasy buffalo shrimp and chicken wings – but what they also got …
Last year, a 14-year old boy was denied admission to the Milton Hersey School in Delaware because he was HIV positive. Isn’t it enough that the poor boy has to live with the disease, but to face discrimination also? After …
Back in 2010, Disney made headlines for its seemingly discriminatory employment practices, when company supervisors told a Muslim employee, Imane Boudlal, that her headscarf was against company dress code and needed to be either removed or covered up. Boudlal, who …
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