Employee benefit cases (better known as ERISA cases, after the Employee Retirement Income Security Act) aren’t the most exciting topic in the world. At this point, just by my very mention of ERISA, I’m imagining your mouse wandering off to view another page.
But yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an important case
The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to consider the case of New Haven, Connecticut firefighers who alleged reverse discrimination when the city denied them promotions despite high test scores, ostensibly out of fears that the test may have discriminated against minority applicants.
I’ve covered the case, Ricci v. DeStefano, previously here and here, and
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The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to hear the case of Gross v. FBL Financial Services. Inc. putting the issue of "Whether a plaintiff must present direct evidence of discrimination in order to 
obtain a mixed-motive instruction in a non-Title VII discrimination case" squarely before the court (H/T ScotusBlog).
The case, arising out of a