On September 11, 2012, NELA and its associated educational and charitable organization, The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy, joined with two dozen workers’ rights organizations to file an amicus brief in support of the National Labor Relations Board (Board) in D...
DR Horton_5th Cir_NELA Amicus Brief_Final.pdf
On July 30, 2012, NELA, its public interest organization, The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy, and the National Employment Law Project (NELP), filed an amicus brief urging affirmance of a district court’s rejection of a collective action ban in an arbitration...
NELAAmicusBrief_Owen v Bristol Care_073012.pdf
In a post on its Labor & Employment Blog (free registration required), Bloomberg BNA highlighted a recent panel discussion titled Employment Class Actions in the Wake of D.R. Horton , which took place during the Annual Luncheon at the 2012 NELA Convention in San Diego, CA on June 21...
NELA, along with a broad coalition of employee rights and civil rights organizations, including the Asian American Justice Center, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Employment Law Project, the National Partnership...
Parisi v Goldman Sachs_NELAAmiciCuriaeBrief_Final_070212.pdf
This post wraps up our coverage of The Institute's Symposium (" Trial By Jury Or Trial By Motion?: Summary Judgment, Iqbal And Employment Discrimination ") at New York Law School on April 23, 2012. Read the previous panel and keynote recaps: here , here , here , and here . ...
This post recaps the keynote address from The Institute's Symposium (" Trial By Jury Or Trial By Motion?: Summary Judgment, Iqbal And Employment Discrimination ") at New York Law School on April 23, 2012. Read about the previous panels: here , here and here .Tomorrow we’ll wrap...
This post recaps the third panel from The Institute's Symposium (" Trial By Jury Or Trial By Motion?: Summary Judgment, Iqbal And Employment Discrimination ") at New York Law School on April 23, 2012. Check back for additional posts recapping the keynote and the closing panel! ...
This post recaps the second panel from The Institute's Symposium (" Trial By Jury Or Trial By Motion?: Summary Judgment, Iqbal And Employment Discrimination ") at New York Law School on April 23, 2012. Check back for additional posts recapping the other panels and the keynote! ...
This post recaps the first panel from The Institute's Symposium (" Trial By Jury Or Trial By Motion?: Summary Judgment, Iqbal And Employment Discrimination ") at New York Law School on April 23, 2012. Check back in the coming week for additional posts recapping the other panels and the keynote! ...
Nearly 200 employee advocates, judges and academics joined NELA's charitable organization, The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy, on Monday, April 23 at New York Law School for a symposium called, " Trial By Jury Or Trial By Motion?: Summary Judgment, Iqbal And...
NELA, The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy, and the National Employment Law Project (NELP), filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to affirm the district court’s rejection of a collective action ban in an arbitration agreement...
Raniere v Citigroup_NELAAmicusBrief_Final.pdf
On April 20, 2012, NELA, its public interest organization, The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy, and the National Employment Law Project (NELP), filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to affirm the district court’s rejection of a...
On April 2, 2012, NELA, its public interest organization, The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy (The Institute), and the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to grant the plaintiffs’...
The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy (The Institute), NELA's public interest organization, has had overwhelming interest in its upcoming symposium, entitled " Trial By Jury Or Trial By Motion? Summary Judgment, Iqbal And Employment Discrimination ." Currently, registration...
The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy Toolkit Paper: Preserving The Right To A Jury Trial By Preventing Adverse Credibility Inferences At Summary Judgment examines three pernicious ways in which courts make determinations about the credibility of witnesses at summary judgment ...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) in a case against D.R. Horton, Inc. (Case No. 12-CA-25764) is poised to decide the question of whether an employer's contractual ban on class and collective actions violates workers' rights to engage in concerted activities under Section 7 of...
NELA_Amici Curiae Brief_filed 7 27 11.pdf
VISION + ACTION: Inside The Institute, a quarterly e-newsletter jointly published by NELA and The Institute. The Institute Responds To Landmark NLRB Ruling In D.R. Horton Case Protecting Workers' Access To Justice Limiting The Reach Of Wal-Mart : The Institute's FLSA Collective...
The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy Toolkit Paper: Securing The Right To A Jury Trial: Attacking "Stray Remarks" At Summary Judgment examines the history and development of the "stray remarks" doctrine, discusses the treatment it has received from the courts and commentators,...