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Single Slur Requires Jury Trial on Hostile Work Environment Claim

On July 29, 2024, the California Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Bailey v. San Francisco Dist. Attorney Office, Cal., No. S265223 and held that the employee’s claims of racial harassment should proceed to jury trial, as well as that the trial court’s decision to dismiss the case in favor of the employer was in […]
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Court Grapples with Whether Criticism Counts as ‘Some Harm’ in Discrimination Case

The U.S. Supreme Court’s April 2024 decision in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis appears to have expanded the universe of “adverse employment actions” that could support an employee’s discrimination claim. The new standard has required courts to consider whether much more generalized and subjective sorts of alleged harm are sufficient to support an employment […]
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