Appellate Section
EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
(RACE, NATIONAL ORIGIN, SEX, AND RELIGION)
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Antonelli v. New Jersey (3d Cir.) -- Appellee
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This court does not have jurisdiction over FMBA's purported appeal
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The district court correctly dismissed all of plaintiffs' claims against the State,
and plaintiffs' claims against state officials for retrospective relief
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The district court correctly awarded defendants summary judgment as to plaintiffs'
claims pursuant to the consent orders and the July 1999 order entered in United
States v. New Jersey
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The district court correctly awarded defendants summary judgment as to plaintiffs'
equal protection claims
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The district court correctly awarded defendants summary judgment as to plaintiffs'
procedural due process claims
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The district court correctly awarded defendants summary judgment as to individual
plaintiffs' claims pursuant to the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection
Procedures
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Baker v. The Home Depot (2d Cir.) -- Amicus
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The district court erred in ruling that Home Depot’s offer to schedule Baker to work later on Sundays was a reasonable accommodation
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United States v. Nassau County (2d Cir.) -- Appellee
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The beneficiaries failed to show that they are entitled to any additional
benefits under the Consent Decree, and, in any event, their claims are untimely
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The district court did not abuse its discretion by barring the beneficiaries'
claims under the doctrine of Laches
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The district court did not abuse its discretion by precluding further discovery
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The district court did not err in denying Margaret Cavanagh's application to
consolidate her claims with the claims of the beneficiaries
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Endres v. Indiana State Police Department & Holmes v. Marion County
(7th Cir.) -- Intervenor
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Whether, in extending the reach of Title VII to cover state employers, Congress
validly abrogated States’ Eleventh Amendment immunity to suits for damages
by private parties
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Wilkes v. Wyoming Dep't of Employment (10th Cir.) -- Intervenor
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No Eleventh Amendment immunity to Title VII actions charging illegal
discrimination on the basis of sex
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Vadie v. Miss. State Univ. (5th Cir.) -- Intervenor
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University is precluded from asserting an Eleventh Amendment immunity defense
by law of the case
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No Eleventh Amendment immunity to Title VII actions charging illegal retaliation
for making Title VII complaint
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Nanda v. Univ. of Illinois (7th Cir.) -- Intervenor
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No Eleventh Amendment immunity to Title VII actions
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United States v. Jefferson County (11th Cir.) -- Appellee
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Court of Appeals lacked jurisdiction over appeal of order interpretting consent
decree provision
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District court properly placed burden on intervenors to establish that job
selection criteria had a racially adverse impact
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District court did not clearly error in evaluating impact of job selection
criteria by examining statistical evidence
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Culver v. City of Milwaukee (7th Cir.) -- Appellee
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District court properly refused to grant class certification to plaintiff seeking
to challenge hiring practices under consent decree between the United States
and the City to address discrimination in the employment practices of
the Milwaukee police department
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Judge did not err in refusing to recuse himself from the case
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There were no grounds for consolidating this case with the United States'
case against the police department
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United States v. Jefferson County (11th Cir.) -- Appellee
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Court of Appeals lacks jurisdiction because the appeal is untimely
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District court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to modify employement
consent decree to require the City to statistically validate an employment
test that has not been shown to have a discriminatory purpose or effect.
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Carrabus v. Schneider (2d Cir.) -- Appellee
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Plaintiffs failed to state a valid claim under Title VII, the Constitution
or state law in their challenge to a police department entrance examination
developed pursuant to consent decree between the United States and the
police department to eliminate prior racial and gender discrimination
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Plaintiffs may not rely on state law to prevent implementation of a consent
decree designed to remedy violations of federal law
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Lunnie v. University of Arkansas (8th Cir.) -- Intervenor
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Title VII's prohibitions on race discrimination and retaliation are valid
exercises of Congress' power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment
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No Eleventh Amendment immunity to Title VII actions
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Okruhlik v. University of Arkansas (8th Cir.) -- Intervenor
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Title VII's prohibitions on sex discrimination and retaliation are valid
exercises of Congress' power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment
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No Eleventh Amendment immunity to Title VII actions
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Holland v. New Jersey Dep't of Corrections (3d Cir.) --
Appellee/cross-appellant
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District court did not abuse its discretion in modifying consent decree
regarding racial harrassment of employees in the state prison system to
extend the termination date, given the defendants' substantial noncompliance
with the terms of the decree during the life of the decree
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District court abused its discretion in extending the decree only ten months
in light of four-year pattern of noncompliance
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Siler-Khodr v. University of Texas Health Science Center
(5th Cir.) -- Intervenor
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Equal Pay Act is valid exercise of Congress' power to enforce the Fourteenth
Amendment
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No Eleventh Amendment immunity to Equal Pay Act actions
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Pawlowski v. Regents of the University of Colorado (10th Cir.) --
Intervenor
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Equal Pay Act is valid exercise of Congress' power to enforce the Fourteenth
Amendment
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No Eleventh Amendment immunity to Equal Pay Act actions
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Association of Mexican American Educators v. California
(9th Cir.) -- Amicus
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Title VII prohibits action by an employer directed not only at its own
employees and applicants, but also activity that interferes with another's
employer-employee relationship on grounds prohibited by Title VII
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If a recipient of federal financial assistance is a public agency, all
of its programs and activities or operations are subject to Title VI, without
regard to the specific purpose of federal assistance
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Broad definition of "program" in Civil Rights Restoration Act applies to
Title VI discriminatory effects regulations
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Downing v. Board of Trustees of Univ. of Alabama (11th Cir.)
-- Intervenor
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Title VII's prohibitions on same-sex sexual harassment and retaliation
are valid exercises of Congress' power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment
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No Eleventh Amendment immunity to Title VII actions
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Hundertmark v. Watts (11th Cir.) -- Intervenor
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Equal Pay Act is valid exercise of Congress' power to enforce the Fourteenth
Amendment
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No Eleventh Amendment immunity to Equal Pay Act actions
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Larry v. Board of Trustees (11th Cir.) -- Intervenor
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Equal Pay Act is valid exercise of Congress' power to enforce the Fourteenth
Amendment
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No Eleventh Amendment immunity to Equal Pay Act actions
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Varner v. Illinois State University (7th Cir.) -- Intervenor
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Equal Pay Act is valid exercise of Congress' power to enforce the Fourteenth
Amendment
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Title VII's prohibition on policies with unjustified disparate impact on
the basis of sex is valid exercise of Congress' power to enforce the Fourteenth
Amendment
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No Eleventh Amendment immunity to Equal Pay Act or Title VII actions
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Updated July 25, 2008
