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Pragmatism Over Politics: Recent Trends In Lower Court Employment Discrimination Jurisprudence, Lee Reeves
Pragmatism Over Politics: Recent Trends In Lower Court Employment Discrimination Jurisprudence, Lee Reeves
Lee Reeves
Many scholars have argued that the judiciary’s decreasing receptivity to employment discrimination claims is attributable either entirely or predominantly to the fact that the federal bench has become more ideologically conservative in recent years. This Article seeks to dispute that hypothesis as incomplete at best, and to offer a competing theory. Specifically, I argue (i) that employment discrimination jurisprudence is properly viewed not as a holistic entity, but rather as a series of circuit-specific creations; and (ii) that each circuit’s employment discrimination jurisprudence is correlated with two factors, total workload per capita judge and employment discrimination filings per capita judge. …