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A Covid Silver Lining? How Telework May Be A Reasonable Accommodation After All, Baylee Kalmbach
A Covid Silver Lining? How Telework May Be A Reasonable Accommodation After All, Baylee Kalmbach
University of Cincinnati Law Review
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Everybody's Vaping For The Weekend: Nicotine Addiction As A Workplace Disability, Matthew M. Allen
Everybody's Vaping For The Weekend: Nicotine Addiction As A Workplace Disability, Matthew M. Allen
University of Cincinnati Law Review
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Retaliation And The Reasonable Person, Sandra F. Sperino
Retaliation And The Reasonable Person, Sandra F. Sperino
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
When a worker complains about discrimination, federal law is supposed to protect that worker from later retaliation. Recent scholarly attention focuses on how courts limit retaliation claims by narrowly framing the causation inquiry. A larger threat to retaliation law is developing in the lower courts. Courts are declaring a wide swath of conduct as insufficiently serious to constitute retaliation.
Many courts hold that it is legal for an employer to threaten to fire a worker, to place the worker on administrative leave, or to negatively evaluate the worker because she complained about discriminatory conduct. Even if the worker has evidence …
The Tort Label, Sandra F. Sperino
The Tort Label, Sandra F. Sperino
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
Courts and commentators often label federal discrimination statutes as torts. Since the late 1980s, the courts increasingly applied tort concepts to these statutes. This Article discusses how courts placed employment discrimination law within the organizational umbrella of tort law without examining whether the two areas share enough theoretical and doctrinal affinities.
While discrimination statutes are torts in some general sense that they do not arise out of criminal law and are not solely contractual, it is far from clear that these statutes are enough like traditional torts to justify the reflexive and automatic use of tort law. Employment discrimination statutes …
Torts And Civil Rights Law: Migration And Conflict: Symposium Introduction, Sandra F. Sperino
Torts And Civil Rights Law: Migration And Conflict: Symposium Introduction, Sandra F. Sperino
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
Curiously, the connection between civil rights and civil wrongs has not been a topic that has captivated the attention of large numbers of legal scholars over the years. The distance that has developed between the two fields likely reflects their placement on opposite sides of the public-private divide, with Title VII and other anti-discrimination statutes forming part of public law, while torts is a classic, private law subject. To compound the division, both subjects are to some extent still under-theorized. Employment discrimination scholarship is often caught up in the process of analyzing the doctrinal implications of the latest Supreme Court …