Back in March, I reported on the likelihood of a victory for Wal-Mart in an important class action case up at the U.S. Supreme Court.
This morning, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the class action against the nation’s largest employer, saying, in essence, that the
Last week, a federal district court in Connecticut held that the Department of Corrections violated federal law in instituting a discriminatory physical fitness test that created a disparate impact on women. It also found tha
t the test was not job-related or necessary.
In doing so, the court granted summary judgment to the employee
Back in February, I noted that not all U.S. Supreme Court cases are created equal and warned employers not to get too excited about a case that was then being argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court — Lewis v. City of Chicago.
Yesterday, the Court released its unanimous decision (download here)
There is a common misconception about the U.S. Supreme Court that all cases that it rules on are created equal.
They’re not. Some take on more significance than others.
Case in point: Lewis v. City of Chicago, which was argued yesterday (transcript available here). I’ve previously discussed the case in an earlier post
Yesterday, a group of black firefighters filed a motion to intervene in the Ricci v. DeStefano case claiming their rights will be "irrevocably impaired " if they aren’t allowed to join in the case. You can download the motion and the accompanying memorandum of law here. 
The motion was not unexpected though I’m not
Well, that didn’t take too long.
Just a few months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano, a black firefighter filed suit yesterday in U.S. District Court alleging that he was unfairly denied promotion to the position of lieutenant because of the city’s scoring of a 2003 promotional exam.
You can
Although I tipped my hand yesterday through some posts (here and here) and an interview with the Connecticut Law Tribune, here are some takeaways for employers from the Ricci v. DeStefano case.
A further read-through of the Ricci v. DeStefano case today has reinforced my view that there are going to be some real lessons learned for employers out of this case. The case had the potential of being a very narrow decision which would have minimized the impact to employers. However, because the court addresses head-on
There’s lots of coverage this morning on the Ricci v. DeStefano (otherwise known as the New Haven firefighter reverse discrimination claim) oral argument at the Supreme Court yesterday — among the most significant discrimination cases arisin
g in Connecticut in years. Here’s a wrap-up:
If only all trial and deposition transcripts happened this quickly….
The Supreme Court held oral argument in the Ricci v. DeStefano case earlier today. The transcript is now available here.
The Workplace Prof has the snap judgment which seems pretty on point from my initial scans:
I’ve skimmed it enough to see that there’s