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Discrimination in employment -- Law & legislation -- United States
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Mike Zimmer, Mcdonnell Douglas And "A Gift That Keeps Giving", William Corbett
Mike Zimmer, Mcdonnell Douglas And "A Gift That Keeps Giving", William Corbett
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What Is Troubling About The Tortification Of Employment Discrimination Law?, William Corbett
What Is Troubling About The Tortification Of Employment Discrimination Law?, William Corbett
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Unmasking A Pretext For Res Ipsa Loquitur: A Proposal To Let Employment Discrimination Speak For Itself, William R. Corbett
Unmasking A Pretext For Res Ipsa Loquitur: A Proposal To Let Employment Discrimination Speak For Itself, William R. Corbett
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Has too much tort law been incorporated into the case law under the federal employment discrimination statutes? The debate on this issue has been reinvigorated by the Supreme Court’s decision in Staub v. Proctor Hospital, 131 S. Ct. 1186 (2011). In Staub the Court referred to the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, a federal employment discrimination statute, as a “federal tort.” The Court then adopted the tort doctrine of proximate cause as the standard for evaluating subordinate bias (or “cat’s paw”) liability. Staub was not the first case in which the Court has suggested that a federal employment …