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Back and Front Pay Under Title VII and State, City Laws: for Judge or Jury?

David Wirtz, of Littler Mendelson, and Orit Goldring, of The Goldring Firm, analyze questions in employment litigation relating to awards of back pay and front pay. What kinds of claims for relief go ...
HRD America

Fifth Circuit keeps Title VII comparator rule, rejects fired teacher's Ames bid

A fired Texas teacher tried to use a 2025 Supreme Court discrimination ruling to revive his case. The Fifth Circuit said no.
The National Law Review

The Fifth Circuit Mulls “Ultimate Employment Decision” Rule Under Title VII

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The Title VII Opposition Clause: A Swiss Army Knife for Opposing DEI Practices?

In late 2024, American Airlines agreed to end certain DEI-focused hiring and employment practices after facing a complaint from conservative group America First Legal, alleging that the airline’s ...
JD Supra

Discrimination in Education: Do You Have a Title IX claim, a Title VII claim, or Can You Bring Both?

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) both act to prevent discrimination. While Title VII governs employment relationships; ...
The National Law Review

Employment Law This Week Episode 343 - SCOTUS Expands Title VII, EEOC’s Final PWFA Rule, AI Screening Tools [Video, Podcast]

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Forbes

Supreme Court Didn’t Make DEI Illegal In Ames Ruling, Lawyers Explain

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services lowered the initial hurdle for pursuing reverse discrimination claims under Title VII in some states, but legal experts ...
JD Supra

Employment Law Update: The EEOC Revokes Its Guidance on Transgender Protections Under Title VII

At a public meeting on January 22, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to rescind its Biden-era harassment guidance (the Guidance) that identified persistent misgendering ...
Reason

Religious Employment and Title VII: Part 3—Resolving an Enduring Circuit Split

This is the third in a series of five posts discussing our recent article in the BYU Law Review on Title VII's religious employer exemption. In the last post we explained how a textualist reading of ...
HR Dive

As SCOTUS weighs Title VII’s harm standard, employers should address DEI program vulnerabilities

Holly Williamson is a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth. Verónica A. Ucros is an associate at the firm. Views are the authors’ own. As employers await a ruling on Title VII’s harm standard from the U.S.
Reason

Religious Employment and Title VII: Part 2—Reading the Exemption Textually

A textualist interpretation of Section 702 shows that the exemption applies when a religious employer confines employment to people who fit the employer's religious observances, practices, and beliefs ...