Civil Rights
This is FindLaw’s collection of Civil Rights articles, part of the Litigation and Disputes section of the Corporate Counsel Center. A civil right is an enforceable right or privilege, which if interfered with by another gives rise to an action for injury. Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech, press, and assembly, the right to vote, freedom from involuntary servitude, and the right to equality in public places. Corporations have been gaining more civil rights in the courts throughout the years. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.
Civil Litigation
Civil Rights Articles
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Law and Motion Legal News and Trends: And Now the Revenge
A Los Angeles court awards millions to former defendants accused of child molestationThe first wave of child sex abuse prosecutions appears to have run its course with Raymond Buckey's second mistrial in the McMartin Preschool case. Now come the ...
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Legal and Ethical Obligations of Pacific Employers Toward Potentially Unstable Employees
As recent events in Hawaii painfully remind us, workplace stress and violence is increasing. However, at the same time, employers are being forced to assume more and more legal responsibilities for employees with mental and/or emotional ...
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Legal Hotlines for Older Americans
Below is a list of legal hotlines for people over 60 in the 17 states that presently have them. The service allows persons 60 and over, or people calling on their behalf to speak with an attorney about their legal questions or problems. They do not ...
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Lex Mentis: My Disability Made Me Do It!
More and more employees are attempting to invoke the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in an attempt to characterize workplace misconduct as disease. As a result, the notion that an employer may fire an employee for not showing up, or even for ...
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Long-Term Disability Benefits
, 121 F. 3d 1006 (6th Cir. 1997), cert denied, No. 97-747, __U.S.__, 1998 WL 15861 (Jan 20. 1998) An employee sued her employer and its insurance carrier claiming that the employer's long-term disability plan violated the public accommodations ...
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Major Changes To California’s Fair Employment And Housing Act Provide Increased Protections To Employees
Several sweeping changes to the California Fair Employment and Housing Act ("FEHA") took effect January 1, 2000. Considering the magnitude of the changes, there has been surprisingly little media coverage on the topic. The changes include new ...
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Makeup Rule Upheld By Ninth Circuit
On December 28, 2004, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision affirmed the dismissal of a female bartender's termination for failing to comply with her employer's dress and grooming standards, which included a requirement that female ...
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Management Use of Internal Audit to Assure Year 2000 Preparedness
Just a few years ago, the "Year 2000 problem" was a challenge known to few outside the world of IS professionals. The "Millennium Bug" is now a creature of the popular culture, and has captured the attention of managers, regulators, Congress and, of ...
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Membership Certainly Has Its Privileges
MAC is more than just something you purchase at McDonald's in big sizes, as many fans learned over the past few weekends while parked on the couch watching college football. The Mid-American Conference ("MAC") houses teams like Marshall, Toledo and ...
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Michigan Court Of Appeals Rules That Elliott-Larsen Act Protects Younger Workers
In Zanni v Medaphis Physician Services Corp a special conflict panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals decided that Michigan's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act ("ELCRA") prohibits age discrimination against younger employees and applicants. In Zanni ...
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