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Pastor?s Claim for Reasonable Accommodation and Constructive Discharge Barred by Ministerial Exception

In a per curiam decision, the Court affirmed dismissal of a pastor?s claims of disability...
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Pastor?s Claim for Reasonable Accommodation and Constructive Discharge Barred by Ministerial Exception

In a per curiam decision, the Court affirmed dismissal of a pastor?s claims of disability...
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Ministerial Exception Does Not Preclude Hostile Environment Claims Against Church

Plaintiff Elvig, an associate pastor, sued her employer and her supervising pastor under Title VII...
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Ministerial Exception Does Not Preclude Hostile Environment Claims Against Church

Plaintiff Elvig, an associate pastor, sued her employer and her supervising pastor under Title VII...
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Accommodations for a Disability Under the WLAD Must be Medically Necessary in that They Have a Nexus to the Disabling Medical Condition

In? a? highly? anticipated? ruling,? the? Supreme Court attempted to clarify what it meant in...
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Accommodations for a Disability Under the WLAD Must be Medically Necessary in that They Have a Nexus to the Disabling Medical Condition

In? a? highly? anticipated? ruling,? the? Supreme Court attempted to clarify what it meant in...
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Requiring Arab Employee to Use Western Name Constitutes Racial Discrimination

The employee in this was named Mamdouh El- Hakem.?? His employer?s CEO insisted on calling...
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Despite Costa, Ninth Circuit Reaffirms Higher Burden of Proof for Plaintiff In Circumstantial Evidence Cases

This case involved a Washington commercial fisherman who was hired in 1997. ?In 2001, he...
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Conditioning Equal Opportunities on Filing a Grievance is an Adverse Tangible Employment Action

Plaintiff Fonseca sued, pro se, under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. ? 1981 for discrimination...
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