On June 6, 2019 NELA and The NELA Institute filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit (10th Cir. Case No. 0:19-cv-01063). NELA and The NELA Institute filed this brief in support of the Plaintiffs, challenging the district court decision that the...
2019.06.06 Filed Amicus Brief Frappied v. Affinity Gaming.pdf
On April 3, 2019, NELA and The NELA Institute jointly filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the Court to rule that Title VII's administrative-exhaustion requirement is a waivable claim-processing rule and not a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit. This case arose after...
NELA Amicus Brief Fort Bend County TX v Davis.pdf
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, NELA joined the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and a group of over two dozen women’s, employee, and civil rights organizations in supporting the Plaintiff-Appellants in their appeal in Jock, et al. v. Sterling Jewelers , pending currently in the U.S. Court of...
Jock v. Sterling Jewelers_NWLC NELA Amicus Brief_031418.pdf
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Immigration protective order memo REDACTED.docx
On March 11, 2016, NELA joined the Equal Justice Society, Justice at Work, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice in filing an amicus brief in support of the Plaintiff-Appellants in Jones v. City of Boston ,...
Jones v City of Boston_1st Cir_NELA et al Amicus.pdf
On July 13, 2015, NELA filed an amicus brief in support of petitioner in Green v. Brennan , No. 14-613, pending in the U.S. Supreme Court on appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. This case concerns the timeliness of an EEO complaint alleging constructive discharge under...
14-613 tsac NELA.pdf
By Joseph Dalia Employee Rights Advocacy Law Student Fellow The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy In an 8-1 decision written by Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 1, 2015 held in EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc . that under Title...
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision on April 29, 2015 in Mach Mining, LLC v. EEOC regarding whether any judicial review of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) conciliation efforts under Title VII is appropriate, resolving a circuit split. In a unanimous opinion...
On December 10, 2014, NELA joined the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists and other religious and civil rights organizations to file an amicus brief supporting Petitioner EEOC in the case of EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc., Case No. 14-86, pending in the U.S....
Abercrombie-Amicus-Merits (14-12-10-final).pdf
On December 17, 2014, NELA joined the National Whistleblowers Legal Defense and Education Fund, Truckers Justice Center and Teamsters for a Democratic Union to file an amicus brief in support of Complainant Robert Powers in the case of Powers v. Union Pacific RR Co., Case No. 13-034, pending...
NELA amici-curiae-brief Powers v Union Pacific_ARB 13-034.pdf
On February 25, 2014, NELA filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in support of plaintiff DeMasters who was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for using established internal complaint mechanisms to notify Carilion Clinic about the sexual harassment...
DeMasters v. Carilion Clinic_NELA Amicus Brief.pdf
NELA’s amicus brief joins with the plaintiffs and their counsel in urging the Sixth Circuit to adopt the majority view of Circuits around the country that court-initiated sanctions under section 1927 requires a finding of bad faith by the trial court. No such finding was made in this...
NELA Amicus_Howe v Akron_04 23 2013.pdf
Summary of NELA’s Amicus Brief: The Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that to effectively enforce Title VII’s substantive protections, Title VII’s antiretaliation provision must be broadly interpreted to ensure unfettered access to statutory remedial mechanisms. ...
12-484 bsac National Employment Lawyers Association et al.pdf
This article appeared in The Third Branch, the official newsletter of the federal judiciary. The article summarizes the recently adopted Initial Discovery Protocols For Employment Cases and includes commentary from Judge John G. Koeltl (S.D.N.Y.), who directed the committee that developed the...
The Third Branch_Employment Discovery Protocols Article_Feb 2012.pdf
NELA developed this Fact Sheet to help NELA members and other workers' rights advocates understand the recently adopted Initial Discovery Protocols For Employment Discrimination Cases, as well as to provide background information on the development of the protocols, summarize the benefits...
NELA Fact Sheet_Implementating The Initial Discovery Protocols_Feb 2012.pdf
These Protocols were developed over the course of eighteen months by a joint committee consisting of NELA members and members of the management bar. The project was supervised by Judge John G. Koeltl (S.D.N.Y.), and the final protocols were adopted by the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee...
Initial Discovery Protocols For Employment Cases_Nov 2011.pdf
On September 5, 2012, NELA, joined by AARP, filed an amicus brief supporting Petitioner Maetta Vance in Vance v. Ball State University , currently pending in the United States Supreme Court. Our brief was drafted by Professor Michael L. Foreman of the Penn State University Dickinson School of...
#11-556_Vance v Ball St_NELA Amicus_Final.pdf
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
On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 , from 3:00pm-4:00pm ET the National LGBT Bar Association, in co-sponsorship with the National Employment Lawyers Association and Seyfarth Shaw LLP, is hosting a national call-in to discuss the recent decision from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in...
In This Issue: NELA Participates In White House Summit On Judicial Nominations EEOC Issues Enforcement Guidance on Arrest And Convictions Records; House Votes For Appropriations Amendment To Forbid Use of Commission's Funds To Implement ...
OTH_05_2012.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 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...