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by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyIn an alert posted on 2/22/12, I summarized the major rulings by Judge Lee H. Rosenthal in Bazile v. City of Houston decided by District Court in the Southern District of Texas decided...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe challenge in this case is to the use of race as a factor in undergraduate admissions at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) by two rejected white females. The District Court of...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyIn a news release on 2/15/12, the Washington Blade, an advocate for gay rights, reported that President Obama is seriously considering signing an executive order that would impose...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case is Margerum v. City of Buffalo, decided on 2/8/12 by Justice John A. Michalek of that New York State Supreme Court in Erie County. The allegation in this case was that the city...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case is Bazile v. City of Houston, decided by District Court in the Southern District of Texas decided on 2/6/12. (see 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14712). This is a very complex case that...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case is Lefevers v. GAF Fiberglas Corporation, handed down on 1/27/12 (see 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 1477), in which the 6th Circuit affirmed the district court’s ruling of summary...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case is Insalaco v. Anne Arundel County Public Schools, decided by District Court of Maryland on 1/26/12. (see 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9110). Jennifer Insalaco, a special education...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe OFCCP has posted the following supplementary information related to its December 9, 2011 related to comments on its NPRM on Section 503.On December 9, 2011, OFCCP published a...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyOn Wednesday, January 25th all of the employer associations and other organizations that requested an extension to the February 7th public comment deadline in response to proposed...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThis case was featured in an alert on 10/18/11 featuring the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on 10/15/11. The question was whether Cheryl Perich met the definition of “minister.” If so,...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyOn 1/18/12, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) introduced H.R. 3791 requiring public companies to disclose their pay brackets and how many women and minorities fall within them. This bill would...

JacintoPort, a subsidiary of Seaboard Corp., has $1.2+ million in federal contracts to store and transport cargo with the Defense Commissary Agency. Interestingly, the allegations against JacintoPort amount to discrimination against white and black...