Author Archives: Justin

It started with a tweet….

By Justin | February 23, 2010

Well it wasn’t that simple really. Nor was it a tweet. It was a retweet of right-wing blogger and actor, Adam Baldwin, (fondly remembered by this author as Linderman from My Bodyguard – shot in my hometown!) to which I added a comment mocking one of the links in the tweet. A few tweets later [...]

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Eight Circuit orders new trial after SCOTUS makes age discrimination claims more difficult

By Justin | December 1, 2009

In June, the SCOTUS made it much tougher for age discrimination plaintiff’s to pursue their claims.
In Gross v. FBL Financial Services Inc the SCOTUS said that it was the responsibility of the plaintiff to prove that age was the motivating factor (not just one of the factors) in the adverse employment decision.
Because of [...]

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Job-Discrimination Cases Tend To Fare Poorly in Federal Court

By Justin | February 24, 2009

Though this will not come as a shock to practitioners in the field or former plaintiffs, the evidence shows that discrimination cases face far worse odds than other types of litigation.
An article in the Wall Street Journal examines some studies on discrimination cases and finds that:
From 1979 through 2006, federal plaintiffs won 15% of job-discrimination [...]

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