Employment Discrimination: Law and Practice, Fourth Edition

Employment Discrimination: Law and Practice, Fourth Edition by Charles A. Sullivan, Lauren Kavanaugh
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  • Author(s): Charles A. Sullivan Lauren Kavanaugh
  • Media: Hardcover
  • Supplement Date: 12/13/2012
  • Publication Frequency: Supplemented annually
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  • ISBN: 9780735575639
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Employment Discrimination: Law & Practice, Fourth Edition provides lucid discussion of difficult and complex legal problems. This timely resource explains laws, rulings, and requirements and delivers thorough legal analysis plus tried and tested practice materials. Moreover, it shows you actual discrimination litigation solutions to difficult and ambiguous problems. You will find comprehensive coverage of topics such as:

  • Disability Law Developments
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Religious Discrimination
  • Continuing Violations
  • How discrimination is defined
  • What is the duty of "reasonable accommodation" in disability discrimination
  • How to successfully talk to, understand, and cross-examine a statistical proof of discrimination expert witness

With this all inclusive, practical two-volume set you will learn:

  • How to prove and defend against sexual harassment claims
  • How to recognize the distinguishing theories and methods of proof
  • Who counts as disabled for purposes of the ADA
  • And much more!

Employment Discrimination: Law and Practice brings the practitioner up to date on the latest developments, including:

  • U.S. Supreme Court landmark decision limiting the systemic theories and class actions. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
  • "Cat's-paw" liability approved. Staub v. Proctor Hospital
  • Third-party retaliation allowed. Thompson v. North American Stainless
  • The ministerial exception goes to the Supreme Court. EEOC v. Hosanna-Tabor
  • States may regulate employment of undocumented aliens. Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting
  • Limiting state regulation of arbitration through the unconscionability doctrine. AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion
  • Analysis of final EEOC regulations relating to the ADAAA and GINA

  1. Introduction and Overview of Statute
  2. Individual Disparate Treatment
  3. Systemic Disparate Treatment Discrimination
  4. Systemic Disparate Impact Discrimination
  5. Interrelation of the Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact Theories of Discrimination
  6. Retaliation
  7. Sex Discrimination
  8. Religious Discrimination Under Title VII
  9. National Origin and Alienage Discrimination Under Title VII, Section 1981, and Immigration Law
  10. Age Discrimination
  11. Disability Discrimination
  12. Procedures
  13. Remedies

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Charles A. Sullivan

Professor of Law and Director of the Rodino Law Library

Professor Sullivan received his B.A. from Siena College, his LL.B. from Harvard University and his LL.M. from New York University. He practiced in New York and previously taught at the University of South Carolina and the University of Arkansas. Dean Sullivan has published in the areas of employment discrimination, employment law, contracts, and antitrust. He is co-author of Employment Discrimination: Law & Practice, now in its Fourth Edition; Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination, now in its Seventh Edition; Employment Law: Private Ordering And Its Limitation (2007); and Cases and Materials on Employment Law (1993). Professor Sullivan has written a number of law review articles, most recently having published in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Northwestern Law Review, and the William & Mary Law Review. An elected member of the American Law Institute, he joined the Seton Hall Law faculty in 1978. He was honored with the Catania Chair in 2010, Named in memory of a deceased colleague, friend, and co-author. He served as Associate Dean at Seton Hall from 1995 until 2001.

PUBLICATIONS

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES


The Puzzling Persistence of Unenforceable Contract Terms, 70 Ohio St. L. J. 112 (2010)

Raising the Dead?: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, 84 Tul. L. Rev. 499 (2010)

Ricci v. DeStefano: End of the Line or Just Another Turn on the Disparate Impact Road?, Northwestern Colloquy (2009)

The Phoenix from the Ash: Proving Discrimination by Comparators, 60 Ala. L. Rev. 191 (2009)

On Vacation, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1143 (2006)

Disparate Impact: Looking Past the Desert Palace Mirage, 47 Will. & Mary L. Rev. 911 (2006)

The Under-Theorized Asterisk Footnote, 93 Geo. L. J. 1093 (2005)

Circling Back to the Obvious: The Convergence of Traditional and Reverse Discrimination in Title VII Proof, 46 Will. & Mary L. Rev. 1031 (2004)

The Law and Genetics of Racial Profiling in Medicine, 39 Harv. Civ. RTS-CIV. Lib. L. Rev. 391 (2004) (with Lillquist)

The World Turned Upside Down?: Disparate Impact Claims by White Males, 98 NW. U. L. Rev. 215 (2004)

Judging Judgments: The 1991 Civil Rights Act and the Lingering Ghost of Martin v. Wilks, 57 Brooklyn. L. Rev. 995 (1992) (with Catania)

Accounting for Price Waterhouse: Proving Disparate Treatment Under Title VII, 56 Brooklyn. L. Rev. 1107 (1991)

The Herfindalh-Hirschman Index and the New Antitrust Merger Guidelines: Concentrating on Concentration, 62 Tex. L. Rev. 453 (1983) (with Cohen)

Breaking Up the Treble Play: Attacks on the Private Treble Damage Antitrust Action, 14 Seton Hall L. Rev. 17 (1983)

The Equal Pay Act of 1963: Making and Breaking a Prima Facie Case, 31 Ark. L. Rev. 545 (1978)

The Enforcement of Title VII: ; Meshing Public and Private Efforts, 71 NW. U.L. Rev. 480 (1976)

Consent Decree Settlements by Administrative Agencies: ; Optimizing Public and Private Interests in Antitrust and Employment Discrimination Enforcement, 1976 Duke L.J. 163 (1976) (with Zimmer)

Private Enforcement of Government Antitrust Decrees: ; Third Party Beneficiary Rights and Intervenor Status, 123 U. Pa. L. Rev. 822 (1975)

The South Carolina Human Affairs Law: ; Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? (II), 27 S.C.L. Rev. 1 (1975) (with Zimmer)

The South Carolina Human Affairs Law: ; Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? (I), 26 S.C.L. Rev. 1 (1974) (with Zimmer)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS


Revisiting the "Neglected Stepchild": ; Antitrust Treatment of Postemployment Restraints of Trade, U. Ill. L.F. 621 (1977)

CASE BOOKS


Cases & Materials on Employment Law, Little, Brown/Aspen (1993) (with Calloway & Zimmer)

Cases & Materials on Employment Discrimination (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th editions), Little, Brown/Aspen (1982, 1988, 1994, 1997, 2000, & 2003)

Employment Discrimination: Law & Practice (1st, 2nd and 3rd editions), Aspen Publishers (1980, 1988, 2002) (with Zimmer and White)

Employment Law: Private Ordering and its Limitations (1st, 2nd, 3rd editions), Little, Brown/Aspen (1980, 1988, 2002) (with Zimmer and Richards)

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS


Chapter in Employment Discrimination Stories, in Foundation Press (2006) (Friedman, ed.)

WORKS IN PROGRESS


The Phoenix from the Ash: Proving Discrimination by Comparators


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Lauren Kavanaugh
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