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tech-employment sex and race discrimination: San Mateo County Superior Court: 2015 Huang v. Twitter: class action sex discrimination lawsuit: 2015 [1] J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B. Intentional discrimination on the basis of sex by state actors in the use of peremptory strikes in jury selection: United States Supreme Court: 1994 Ledbetter v.
racial discrimination in its allocation of farm loans and assistance: 1999/2010 Price v. Philip Morris, Inc: cigarette company advertising class action led by plaintiff's attorney Stephen Tillery resulted in $10.1 billion judgement [1] Madison County, Illinois: 2003/2006 Ritalin class action lawsuits: promoting disorder ADHD to increase drug ...
Bostock v. Clayton County –— a landmark United States Supreme Court case in 2020 in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity; Civil Rights Act of 1866 [3] Civil Rights Act of 1871 [4] Civil Rights Act of 1957 [5]
The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five landmark cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments did not empower Congress to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals.
The Supreme Court took up several cases Friday ahead of its new term, including a bid by gun companies to evade a lawsuit filed by the Mexican government and a straight woman's claim of sex ...
Major figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks [14] were involved in the fight against the race-based discrimination of the Civil Rights Movement. . Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 sparked the Montgomery bus boycott—a large movement in Montgomery, Alabama, that was an integral period at the beginning of the Civil Rights Moveme
Students in Kansas and Texas are recent examples of people being discriminated against for their hairstyles. Recent cases highlight hairstyle 'discrimination' against students [Video] Skip to main ...
Circuit courts have disagreed over whether to hold reverse discrimination cases to a higher standard. Some have ruled that if a person from a majority group brings a discrimination case, they have ...