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Discrimination Law: The New Franken-Tort, Sandra F. Sperino Jan 2016

Discrimination Law: The New Franken-Tort, Sandra F. Sperino

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This article was part of the Clifford Symposium in Tort Law. The article discusses how the Supreme Court has used tort law to define certain elements of discrimination law, but has not described all of the elements of this new tort. The article is the first one to try to piece together the new "tort" created by the Supreme Court.