by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case Puffer v. Allstate Ins. Co. was handed down on March 27, 2012 [2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 6213]. The headline reads that the 7th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling rejecting class...
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April 10, 2012
by Eric Dunleavy Ph.D., Principal Consultant, DCI ConsultingAs Art described in an earlier post, the recent 7th circuit ruling in Puffer v. Allstate emphasized some nuanced class certification issues and the differentiated disparate impact claims...
March 30, 2012
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case is Nassar v. University of Southwestern Texas Medical Center (UTSW), decided on March 8, 2012 by a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit [2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 4874]. At the...
March 30, 2012
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case is King v. Acosta Sales & Marketing, decided by the 7th Circuit on March 13, 2012 [2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 5156]. The plaintiff, Susan King, lost on summary judgment at the...
March 12, 2012
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case is EEOC v. United Airlines, decided on March 7, 2012 [2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 4713]. The facts are that a female (Houser) could no longer perform her job (conveyer). After...
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe data, which are for private entities, were posted on 1/25/12 on the EEOC Website (click on “Enforcement and Litigation Statistics” and on sub-links for “Charge Statistics” and “All...
March 12, 2012
by Eric Dunleavy Ph.D., Principal Consultant, DCI ConsultingArt has already written two detailed posts on Bazile v. City of Houston, which demonstrates how complex the 100-page ruling is. Judge Rosenthal dealt with a number of complex and technical...
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...
March 12, 2012
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...
February 22, 2012
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...
February 22, 2012
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...
