Griggs v. Duke Power Co.

Masson v. New Yorker, 501 U.S. 496 (1991) Facts: After being fired from the Sigmund Freud Archives, Jeffery Masson interviewed with Janet Malcolm, a New Yorker magazine reporter. Malcolm’s article contained long quotes from Masson that presented Masson as conceded and condescending. Malcolm fabricated the more offensive quotes and Masson sued for Libel. The Law: “The First Amendment protects authors and journalists who write about public figures by requiring a plaintiff to prove that the…

Many court cases have foreshadowed to a change in college sports as we know it. The first case being NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, in which the Supreme court ruled that constricting the amount of events that an NCAA member may broadcast on television violated section 1 of the Sherman Act because it “eliminated competitors from the…

Corporation v Green (1973) and Texas Department of Community Affairs…

Affirmative Action When discussing affirmative action we must first define what the term means. Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines affirmative action as “the practice of improving the educational and job opportunities of members of groups that have not been treated fairly in the past because of their race, sex, etc.” (Merriam-webster). As the definition states, these policies apply to both educational and employment situations and are designed to level the playing field, and make up…

Racial Equality Within The United States Out of all the cases that have dealt with racial inequality and segregation Brown v. Board Of Education of Topeka has to be number one on the list for having the biggest impact on those topics. Brown v. Board of Education was a case that would determine the outcome of public education in the United States. It all started with Plessy v. Ferguson when the court created the “separate but equal” doctrine. This doctrine states that if a school choose to be…

United States varies significantly by race and ethnicity. Incomes less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level include; Hispanic, African American, and other nonwhites. This would discriminate due to race and ethnicity as stated in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. Lower income candidates who could not afford law school and then would be disqualified (Twomey, 2013). The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has implementation responsibility, has dispensed guidelines translating Section 703(b) to…

problems in the past and will continue to. When doing my research of discrimination cases against Hy-Vee I was not able to find any that the plaintiff had won according to their discrimination allegations. One of the cases I came across was Oglesby v. Hy-Vee in the district court for the district of Kanas on December 1, 2005. Oglesby brought a suit against Hy-Vee alleging employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation in violation of the Age Discriminations in Employment Act (ADEA).…