Article appeared in The Daily Record A federal judge has reduced a $1 million punitive damages award to $50,000 following a jury trial in which a black former employee of Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital proved that management retaliated against him for complaining about racial discrimination in the workplace, Chisholm v.…
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A part-time instructor of Palestinian descent was fired after school administrators in Chicago determined that she violated the college’s anti-harassment policy by singling out and teasing a Jewish student in the class, lacks a race or national origin discrimination claim. (Smiley v. Columbia Coll. Chicago, 7th Cir., No. 10-3747, 4/30/13).…
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Article appeared in The Daily Record, July 23, 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on June 25 to examine a federal appeals court ruling dealing with the question of whether a “supervisor” under Title VII can include an employee who oversees and directs other workers’ daily tasks, but lacks the…
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Article appeared in The Daily Record, Oct 26, 2009 An African-American woman’s contract as a Craftmatic sales representative was terminated after she and the company’s hiring recruiter got into an argument in which he allegedly used racial slurs. She can proceed with a race discrimination claim under the Civil Rights…
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Article appeared in The Buffalo Jewish Review, July 2, 2004 When Amaani Lyle interviewed for a writer's assistant position with Adam Chase and Gregory Malins, executive producers and writers on the NEC television show "Friends," she stated on her application that she could type 80 words per minute, and was…
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