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Answering A Fool According To His Folly: Ruminations On Comparative Fault Thirty Years On, Frank L. Maraist, H. Alston Johnson Iii, Thomas C. Galligan Jr., William R. Corbett
Answering A Fool According To His Folly: Ruminations On Comparative Fault Thirty Years On, Frank L. Maraist, H. Alston Johnson Iii, Thomas C. Galligan Jr., William R. Corbett
William R. Corbett
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Unmasking A Pretext For Res Ipsa Loquitur: A Proposal To Let Employment Discrimination Speak For Itself, Bill Corbett
Unmasking A Pretext For Res Ipsa Loquitur: A Proposal To Let Employment Discrimination Speak For Itself, Bill Corbett
William R. Corbett
Unmasking a Pretext for Res Ipsa Loquitur: A Proposal to Let Employment Discrimination Speak for Itself
William R. Corbett*
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 …