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Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/24/2013 3:36:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday decided to make it harder for Americans to sue businesses for retaliation and discrimination, leading a justice to call for Congress to overturn the court's actions.

The court's conservatives, in two 5-4 decisions, ruled that a person must be able to hire and fire someone to be considered a supervisor in discrimination lawsuits, making it harder to blame a business for a co-worker's racism or sexism. The court then decided to limit how juries can decide retaliation lawsuits, saying victims must prove employers would not have taken action against them but for their intention to retaliate.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote both dissents for the court's liberal wing, and in a rare move, read them aloud in the courtroom. She said the high court had "corralled Title VII," a law designed to stop discrimination in the nation's workplaces.

"Both decisions dilute the strength of Title VII in ways Congress could not have intended," said Ginsburg, who then called on Congress to change the law to overturn the court.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20130624/US--Supreme.Court-Supervisor.or.Not_/

Rather interesting ruling here.

Anyone want to place bets on Congress changing this?

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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/24/2013 3:42:12 PM   
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday decided to make it harder for Americans to sue businesses for retaliation and discrimination, leading a justice to call for Congress to overturn the court's actions.

The court's conservatives, in two 5-4 decisions, ruled that a person must be able to hire and fire someone to be considered a supervisor in discrimination lawsuits, making it harder to blame a business for a co-worker's racism or sexism. The court then decided to limit how juries can decide retaliation lawsuits, saying victims must prove employers would not have taken action against them but for their intention to retaliate.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote both dissents for the court's liberal wing, and in a rare move, read them aloud in the courtroom. She said the high court had "corralled Title VII," a law designed to stop discrimination in the nation's workplaces.

"Both decisions dilute the strength of Title VII in ways Congress could not have intended," said Ginsburg, who then called on Congress to change the law to overturn the court.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20130624/US--Supreme.Court-Supervisor.or.Not_/

Rather interesting ruling here.

Anyone want to place bets on Congress changing this?

I would have a better chance of getting a blow job from you.

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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/24/2013 6:19:36 PM   
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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/24/2013 8:10:53 PM   
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Anyone want to place bets on Congress changing this?


Not any Congress ruled by the current mindset of today's republicans, I don't.


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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/25/2013 12:03:12 AM   
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Anyone want to place bets on Congress changing this?


Not any Congress ruled by the current mindset of today's republicans, I don't.


Republicans? Giving a crap about the 99% of US Citizens in this nation? Yeah, I'll win four powerball jackpots in a row before those anti-Americans decide to help.....


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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/25/2013 12:22:38 AM   
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quote:

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Anyone want to place bets on Congress changing this?


Not any Congress ruled by the current mindset of today's republicans, I don't.


Republicans? Giving a crap about the 99% of US Citizens in this nation? Yeah, I'll win four powerball jackpots in a row before those anti-Americans decide to help.....




Its amazing how rabidly left wing this board is.

Yeah cutting down on lawsuits is a bad thing. Like we already don't have more lawsuits than any other country on earth. Or more than 20 times the concentration of lawyers (per capita) of any other country on the planet.

[sarcasm] yeah, if a company doens't want you to work there, you should sue. Lets make everything the purview of lawyers. Lets let the government decide EVERYTHING.

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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/25/2013 12:29:54 AM   
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Just a suggestion.

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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/25/2013 5:11:50 AM   
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a person must be able to hire and fire someone to be considered a supervisor in discrimination lawsuits, making it harder to blame a business for a co-worker's racism or sexism.

Absolutely, as discrimination can only be by one so able to do so. A co-worker might run afoul of policy, but policy itself does not necessarily confer a discriminatory nature.


"Both decisions dilute the strength of Title VII in ways Congress could not have intended," said Ginsburg, who then called on Congress to change the law to overturn the court.


Do they? Or is that, to Ms. Ginsburg, Title VII is being disallowed, by the majority opinion, expansion beyond its intended reach? To me it would appear so, as she calls on Congress to expand its intent.




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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/25/2013 7:39:15 AM   
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a person must be able to hire and fire someone to be considered a supervisor in discrimination lawsuits, making it harder to blame a business for a co-worker's racism or sexism.




yeh so get someone who has every power but the ability to hire and fire to do all the dirty work.

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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/25/2013 11:48:38 AM   
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Its amazing how rabidly left wing this board is.



What I find more disturbing is the level of blatant hypocrisy that comes screaming out of some of them.

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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/27/2013 11:18:25 PM   
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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/27/2013 11:23:39 PM   
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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/28/2013 3:23:57 PM   
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I find it amazing that people will sue companies over hot coffee spilling in their crotch from a Styrofoam cup at McDonald's,



Why?

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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/28/2013 3:34:09 PM   
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Yeah cutting down on lawsuits is a bad thing. Like we already don't have more lawsuits than any other country on earth. Or more than 20 times the concentration of lawyers (per capita) of any other country on the planet.


Not true.



http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_country_in_the_world_has_most_lawyers_per_capita

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RE: Supreme Court makes it harder to sue businesses - 6/28/2013 5:10:10 PM   
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday decided to make it harder for Americans to sue businesses for retaliation and discrimination, leading a justice to call for Congress to overturn the court's actions.

The court's conservatives, in two 5-4 decisions, ruled that a person must be able to hire and fire someone to be considered a supervisor in discrimination lawsuits, making it harder to blame a business for a co-worker's racism or sexism. The court then decided to limit how juries can decide retaliation lawsuits, saying victims must prove employers would not have taken action against them but for their intention to retaliate.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote both dissents for the court's liberal wing, and in a rare move, read them aloud in the courtroom. She said the high court had "corralled Title VII," a law designed to stop discrimination in the nation's workplaces.

"Both decisions dilute the strength of Title VII in ways Congress could not have intended," said Ginsburg, who then called on Congress to change the law to overturn the court.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20130624/US--Supreme.Court-Supervisor.or.Not_/

Rather interesting ruling here.

Anyone want to place bets on Congress changing this?


It'll never get changed...and thank gawd....it's about time small business isn't held hostage to an ex employee's interpretation of why they suck at their job.

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