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The Uncertain Legacy Of Gilmer: Mandatory Arbitration Of Federal Employment Discrimination Claims, John W.R. Murray Jan 1999

The Uncertain Legacy Of Gilmer: Mandatory Arbitration Of Federal Employment Discrimination Claims, John W.R. Murray

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The United States Supreme Court in Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. held that an employee could not be forced to arbitrate his discrimination claim against an employer pursuant to his union's collective bargaining agreement. Subsequent cases viewed Gardner-Denver as prohibiting mandatory arbitration in employment discrimination claims, until the Supreme Court upheld an agreement to submit all statutory discrimination claims to arbitration in Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp. Gilmer seems to have limited the prohibition of mandatory arbitration in Gardner-Denver to collective bargaining agreements. Subsequently, many lower courts interpret Gilmer as an approval of arbitration clauses in employment agreements, and as such, …


Dorothy Day, Workers' Rights And Catholic Authenticity, David L. Gregory Jan 1999

Dorothy Day, Workers' Rights And Catholic Authenticity, David L. Gregory

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article focuses on Dorothy Day, the famous Catholic social activist, and the Catholic Worker, the newspaper she co-founded in 1933. Specifically, it focuses the 1949 strike by Catholic workers at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York City's largest Catholic cemetery. It further examines and the relationships between Day, who supported the strike, and then-Archbishop of New York Francis Spellman, who opposed it. The Article moves beyond this specific incident and examines the example Day and the Catholic Worker provided for people of all faiths, specifically Catholics and their relationship with their Bishop. Finally, the Article seeks to apply the …