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The Supreme Court has ruled that local governments have the right to sue banks for civil rights violations against, for example, city residents. In Bank of America Corp. v. City of Miami, the Supreme Court held that the City of Miami may continue to… Read More

Employees and other plaintiffs tended to have difficulty succeeding before the Minnesota Supreme Court in the past. That trend appears to be changing, as reflected by two recent decisions that should have significance well beyond the cases themselves… Read More

The Center for Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University Law Center recently issued a report, “The Perpetual Line-Up,” which determined that half of the nation’s adults are in at least one facial-recognition database used by police or o… Read More

There has been an evident effort to restrict voting rights in recent years. This development has been led largely by the American Legislative Exchange Council (“ALEC”). As discussed previously here, ALEC consists of corporate executives and right… Read More

North Carolina’s newly enacted law, often referred to as HB2, has received nationwide attention primarily because of its requirement that transgender people use the bathroom corresponding to their purported biological identity rather than their act… Read More

As the economy has become more globalized and volatile, a growing number of companies have sought to minimize liabilities while maximizing profits by using the corporate form to create supposed separation between closely related entities. This “sep… Read More

In a closely watched employment law and civil rights case, the Supreme Court emphatically rejected the common employer argument that employees have no right to a religious accommodation in the workplace unless they explicitly ask for one. Justice Ant… Read More

The Supreme Court recently ruled that pregnant workers cannot be treated less favorably than non-pregnant workers simply because it is inconvenient or costly to accommodate pregnancy. In Young v. United Parcel Service, the plaintiff employee had medi… Read More