but because here the employer's (and union's) actions were basically just an incident of public criticism, they didn't qualify as hostile environment harassment (and the employee wasn't fired or demoted).
Critics allege, with some justice, that the Biden Administration is treating the former more favorably than the latter. If so, the right solution is to increase openness to Afghans and others fleeing war and repression, not bar more Ukrainians.
In a forceful concurring opinion, he argues the Supreme Court should overrule longstanding precedents denying many constitutional rights to residents of Puerto Rico and other "unincorporated" US territories. Gorsuch is absolutely right. But he would do well to cast the same critical gaze on the very similar precedents that exempt immigration restrictions from normal constitutional scrutiny.
interpreting "tend to" as reflecting the "statistics" about racial disparities in committing violent crimes.
The stay may signal that the federal appellate court will ultimately uphold the school's policy.
The school board is fighting a federal judge’s ruling against a new admissions policy at Virginia's elite Thomas Jefferson High School.
Recordings of recent interviews on these topics with T.J. O'Hara for the Deconstructed podcast, and Areva Martin on her talk show program, Special Report.
At her confirmation hearing for her current position on the court of appeals, KBJ testified that "race would be the kind of thing that would be inappropriate to inject in my evaluation of a case."
The new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology did not explicitly discriminate based on race. But the court found it was intended to reduce the number of Asian students admitted, in order to increase the percentage of students from other groups.
It all started with a stolen PlayStation 5.
This approach would avoid many of the flaws of traditional racial preferences. But it has some downsides of its own.
I argue the justices should crack down on the dubious "diversity" rationale for racial preferences, and curb discrimination against Asian-American applicants.
The article explains key issues in the case, and outlines what I think the Court should do.
One involves racial preferences at Harvard, the other at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her support for racially discriminatory immigration policies is just the tip of a much broader iceberg of conservative support for discrimination in immigration policy of a kind they would reject in other contexts.
A rich non-white patient would be given priority over a poor white patient with precisely the same age and health conditions.
Sick non-Hispanic whites can only get oral antivirals if they have a medical condition or unspecified "other factors that increase their risk for severe illness"; sick "[n]on-white[s]" and "Hispanic[s]" don't face such a requirement.
A white administrator is claiming she was fired based on her race, and based on her complaints that her department chair said "I despise white people" and various other things.
People are increasingly tolerant of racial differences.
How about communities of pallor? Looks like they'll have to figure out that they should claim "increased risk due to social inequity."
Constitution Day is a good time to consider the issue of whether we have been overly accepting of some horrendous Supreme Court precedents. The Chinese Exclusion Case of 1889 is a great example.
The report from the attorney general's office also found that Aurora paramedics used ketamine illegally to treat "excited delirium."
Each major party portrays the other as a deadly threat to democracy.
The Senate majority leader's racial rhetoric and overly prescriptive approach make an already iffy effort even more quixotic.
The article, which is available free on SSRN, criticizes claims that governments have a right to exclude migrants based on various theories of self-determination.
It's wrong for politicians to suppress important debates in schools. Instead let families have more control of their kids' educations.
The university abruptly shut down dozens of classes over an unfounded claim that a white student was taunted.
A federal court denied the Fairfax County School Board's motion to dismiss the case.
A recent Century Foundation report highlights reasons why breaking down barriers to building new housing should appeal to left, right, and libertarians alike.
Do "Black and white people routinely commit crimes at similar rates," if we focus on violent crime? Is "Black-on-Black crime ... a myth"?
[UPDATE: This might make American Bar Association CLE programs, for which the ABA requires such quotas, ineligible for Florida CLE credit.]
The article shows how the left and right-wing versions of hostility to Asians have much in common.
Clearly unconstitutional.
at the West Contra Costa Unified School District (Northern California).
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