Same Song, Umpteenth Verse - No Discrimination, Retaliation Worth $2 Million

This time it was Ithaca police officer Chris Miller who lost his claim that Ithaca discriminated against him and other non-minority officers...

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, A Dangerous Cause of Action

This headline, Steelworker awarded $25 million in New York racial lawsuit might seem to come from a typical Title VII or Section 1981 case ...

Missed This New Jersey MDV the First Time Around

I was in Lubbock yesterday talking to their SHRM chapter about retaliation and the dangers of those cases, along with its first cousin whist...

ADA Cases Are No Longer Unwelcome in Plaintiff Counsel's Offices

Lynne Seabrook was working as an assistant registrar for Upper Iowa University focusing on its Malaysia campus when she was terminated in Fe...

Kansas City Verdict - Another Successful "Reverse Discrimination" Claim

Earlier this month I commented that one trend we might see this year was more "reverse discrimination" claims. See, 2011 -- the Ye...

MMA Body Slam of $3.2 Million

$3.2 million is the total jury award to former Tapou T sales representative, Michelle Thomas, from a Los Angeles state jury. The jury first ...

2011 --- the Year of the Non-minority?

Predicting what a new year will bring is a time honored tradition, but much like resolutions, most predictions rarely last longer than the f...

A SAD Story In So Many Very Different Ways

Commenting on lawsuits based on newspaper stories is risky business. I do it frequently and I probably should remind myself and those who re...

If You Have a Choice, Would You Bifurcate Punitive Damages?

That was a question I was discussing with a colleague Friday just before we gave a seminar presentation on Things that Employers Do to Make ...