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What Is the Difference Between Disparate Impact and Disparate Treatment?
While the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up the issue of the future of the disparate impact analysis to show discrimination, President Obama’s administration seems to employ it more frequently to show racial discrimination by lenders and employers. Both California … Continue reading
Drinking While Boating Carries Grave Risks
Some studies estimate that alcohol is involved in 25 percent of all motorboat-related deaths, depending on the year. While employing a designated driver may help avoid alcohol-related auto accidents, it does not provide the same benefit with boating accidents because … Continue reading
Filing an Employment Discrimination Suit? Be Prepared!
California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) prohibits harassment and discrimination in employment based on a number of protected classes including race, religion, gender, age and disability. A victim of discrimination has one year from the date of the last … Continue reading
Illegal Harassment on the Job
Sexual harassment cases seem to attract the attention of the press. Ask San Diego’s embattled former mayor, Bob Filner, who is facing a sexual harassment lawsuit from his former director of communications. One of her allegations is that Filner told … Continue reading
San Diego Personal Injury Lawyers Helping Those Harmed by Inattentive Drivers
When insurance companies, law enforcement agencies and public interest groups put together lists of the most common causes of car accidents, driver inattention is almost always at or near the top of the list. Most people understand but many people … Continue reading
Age Discrimination Lawsuits Hold Employers Accountable
In April 2013, California Superior Court awarded two plaintiffs $2.6 million in damages in an age discrimination case. The plaintiffs, Nimet Behar, aged 49, and Clorinda Greek, aged 63, were both terminated from their jobs in September 2009. They submitted … Continue reading
California’s Waterways Can Be Deadly
The statistics are staggering: the California Department of Boating and Waterways reports that in 2011 there were 512 boating accidents resulting in 313 injuries and 54 deaths on California’s waters. The amount of property damage from boating accidents in 2011 … Continue reading
California Supreme Court Clarifies Meal Breaks at Work
Last year, in Brinkley v. Superior Court, the California Supreme Court decided the important issue of whether employers must make sure that employees take their breaks or simply provide opportunity for break time. The California Supreme Court held that employers … Continue reading
California’s Legal Protections Against Workplace Discrimination
California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) prohibits discrimination in employment based on religion just as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans such discrimination at the federal level. Under both federal and state law, employers are … Continue reading
Slip and Fall Accidents
Whether you’ve injured yourself in a trip and fall or step and fall, that injury is classified as a slip and fall in California. If you were injured by tripping over an object, stepping into an unexpected hole or slipping … Continue reading
