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Stopped At The Starting Gate: The Overuse Of Summary Judgment In Equal Pay Cases, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg Jan 2013

Stopped At The Starting Gate: The Overuse Of Summary Judgment In Equal Pay Cases, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg

Faculty Scholarship

Prepared for a symposium about the overuse of summary judgment in employment discrimination cases, this Article provides a grassroots empirical analysis of what is happening in equal pay cases on the front lines of the district courts. Analyzing a database of 500 federal district court decisions—both published and unpublished—that considered whether to grant summary judgment on an equal pay claim from 2000 to 2011, the review shows that dismissing equal pay claims at the summary judgment stage has become the modus operandi for most federal courts. Courts granted 68% of summary judgment motions in equal pay cases—meaning that only about …


Evaluating Policy Solutions To Sex-Based Pay Discrimination: Women Workers, Lawmakers, And Cultural Change, Vicky Lovell Jan 2009

Evaluating Policy Solutions To Sex-Based Pay Discrimination: Women Workers, Lawmakers, And Cultural Change, Vicky Lovell

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Opening The Doors To The Local Courthouse: Maryland’S New Private Right Of Action For Employment Discrimination, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg Jan 2009

Opening The Doors To The Local Courthouse: Maryland’S New Private Right Of Action For Employment Discrimination, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


The New Sex Discrimination: Family Responsibilities, Cynthia Thomas Calvert Jan 2009

The New Sex Discrimination: Family Responsibilities, Cynthia Thomas Calvert

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Protecting Workers From Genetic Discrimination, Karen H. Rothenberg Jan 2007

Protecting Workers From Genetic Discrimination, Karen H. Rothenberg

Congressional Testimony

No abstract provided.


Colorism: A Darker Shade Of Pale, Taunya Lovell Banks Jan 2000

Colorism: A Darker Shade Of Pale, Taunya Lovell Banks

Faculty Scholarship

In this article, Professor Banks argues that colorism, skin tone discrimination against dark-skinned but not light-skinned blacks, constitutes a form of race-based discrimination. Skin tone discrimination coexists with more traditional forms of race discrimination that impact all blacks without regard to skin tone and phenotype, yet courts seem unwilling to recognize this point. Professor Banks uses employment discrimination cases to illustrate some courts' willingness to acknowledge subtler forms of race-based discrimination, like skin tone discrimination, for white ethnic and Latina/o plaintiffs, but not for black plaintiffs. The inability of courts to fashion coherent approaches to colorism claims involving black claimants …


Employment Discrimination: The Burden Is On Business - Griggs V. Duke Power Co. Jan 1971

Employment Discrimination: The Burden Is On Business - Griggs V. Duke Power Co.

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Racial And Religious Discrimination In Employment And The Role Of The Nlrb, Walter H. Maloney Jr. Jan 1961

Racial And Religious Discrimination In Employment And The Role Of The Nlrb, Walter H. Maloney Jr.

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.