Employment Law Legends

Episode 1 – Employment Law Reborn: West Coast Hotel v. Parrish

1. West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937).
2. William E. Leuchtenburg, THE SUPREME COURT REBORN: THE CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION IN THE AGE OF ROOSEVELT (1995).
3. Daniel E. Ho and Kevin M. Quinn, Did a Switch in Time Save Nine, 2 J. Legal Analysis 69 (2010).
4. Helen J. Knowles, “Omak’s Minimum Pay Law Joan D’Arc”: Telling the Local Story of West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, Journal of Supreme Court History 37:3 (2012).
5. Barry Cushman, Court Packing And Compromise, 29 Const. Comment 1 (2013).
6. William G. Ross, When Did The “Switch in Time” Actually Occur?: Re-Discovering The Supreme Court’s “Forgotten” Decisions of 1936-1937, 37 Ariz. St. L.J. 1153 (2005).
7. Stephen O. Cline, Revisiting FDR’s Court Packing Plan: Are The Current Attacks On Judicial Independence So Bad?, 30 McGeorge L. Rev. 863 (1999).

Episode 2 –Defining Harassment: Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson

1. Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986).
2. Augustus B. Cochran III, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND THE LAW (2004).
3. Gillian Thomas, BECAUSE OF SEX: ONE LAW, TEN CASES, AND FIFTY YEARS THAT CHANGED AMERICAN WOMEN’S LIVES AT WORK (2016).
4. Ronald Turner, Making Title VII Law and Policy: The Supreme Court’s Sexual Harassment Jurisprudence, 22 Hofstra Lab. & Emp. L.J. 575 (2005).
5. Robert C Bird, More than a Congressional Joke: A Fresh Look at the Legislative History of Sex Discrimination of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 3 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 137 (1997).
6. Victoria T. Bartels, Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson: The Supreme Court’s Recognition of the Hostile Environment in Sexual Harassment Claims, 20 Akron L. Rev. 575 (1987).
7. Catherine A. MacKinnon, SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WORKING WOMEN (1979).
8. John Meisburg, THE MICHELLE VINSON STORY (2018).

Episode 3 –Testing Title VII: Griggs v. Duke Power Company

1. Griggs v. Duke Power Company, 401 U.S. 424 (1971).
2. Robert Belton, THE CRUSADE FOR EQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE (2014).
3. Robert Samuel Smith, RACE, LABOR, AND CIVIL RIGHTS (2008).
4. Robert Belton, Title VIII at Forty: A Brief Look at the Birth, Death, and Resurrection of the Disparate Impact Theory Of Discrimination, 22 Hofstra Lab. & Emp. L.J. 431 (2005).
5. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, THE BRETHREN: INSIDE THE SUPREME COURT (1979).
6. Earl M. Malttz, The Legacy of Griggs v. Duke Power Co.: A Case Study In The Impact of A Modernist Statutory Precedent, 1994 Utah L. Rev. 1353 (1994).
7. David J. Garrow, Toward a Definitive History of Griggs, 67 Vand. L. Rev. 197 (2014).

Episode 4 –The Burdens of Proof: McDonnell Douglas Corporation v. Green

1. McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973).
2. Gerald Early and Percy Green, et al., AINT BUT A PLACE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITINGS ABOUT SAINT LOUIS (1998).
3. David Benjamin Oppenheimer, The Story of Green v. McDonnell Douglas, in EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION STORIES (Joel Wm. Friedman ed., 2006).
4. David Benjamin Oppenheimer, McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green Revisited: Why Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Should be Protected From Retaliation By Title VII, 34 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 635 (2003).
5. Amanda Berg, “An Allemande Worthy of the 16th Century:” A Call to Abolish the McDonnell Douglas Framework and Adopt Judge Wood’s Proposed Flexible Standard, 33 Rev. Litig. 639 (2014).
6. Tristin K. Green, Making Sense of the McDonnell Douglas Framework: Circumstantial Evidence and Proof of Disparate Treatment under Title VII, 87 Calif. L. Rev. (1993).
7. Martin J. Katz, Reclaiming McDonnell Douglas, 83 Notre Dame L. Rev. 109 (2007).
8. Sandra F. Sperino, Flying Without A Statutory Basis: Why McDonnell Douglas is Not Justified By Any Statutory Construction Methodology, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 743 (2006)
9. John Paul Stevens, In Memoriam: Judge P. Lay, 92 L. Rev. 1551 (2007).
10. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the EEOC Transcript (June 23, 2004).
11. Alexia McGhee, A Look Back: Civil Rights Protesters Climb Unfinished Gateway Arch in 1964, Saint Louis Post Dispatch (July 14, 2013).
12. Jamala Rogers, Revisiting the Landmark Case of Percy Green, The Saint Louis American (May 7, 2018).
13. Bethany Prange, Louis Gilden: Civil Rights Lawyer, St. Louis Dispatch (December 27, 2000).
14. Special thanks to Timothy Johnson and SCOTUSNotes Project.

Episode 5 – Keeping the Sabbath: Trans World Airlines v. Hardison

1. Trans World Airlines v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63 (1977).
2. Debbie N. Kaminer, Title VII’s Failure to Prove Meaningful and Consistent Protection of Religious Employees, 21 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 575 (2000).
3. Robert A. Caplen, A Struggle of Biblical Proportions: The Campaign to Enact the Workplace Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2003, 16 Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 579 (2005).
4. Huma T. Yunus, Employment Law: Congress Giveth and the Supreme Court Taketh Away: Title VII’s Prohibition of Religious Discrimination in the Workplace, 57 Okla. L. Rev. 657 (2004).
5. J. Gregory Grisham and Robin W. Hutton, Religious Accommodation in the Workplace: Current Trends Under Title VII, J. Federalist Soc’y Prac. Groups 74 (2014).
6. James A. Sonne, The Perils of Universal Accommodation: The Wokplace Religious Freedom Act of 2003 and the Affirmative Action of 147,096,000 Souls, 79 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1023 (2004).
7.  Nathan Lewin, Will Trump’s Justice Department Protect Sabbath Observers?, The Times of Israel (March 22, 2019).
8. Russell Chandler, Church Founder Herbert W. Armstrong Dies at 93, Los Angeles Times (Jan. 16 1982).
9. Morton Mintz, Supreme Court Hears Sabbath Case, The Washington Post (Apr. 1, 1977).
10. Elain X. Grant, TWA - Death Of A Legend, Saint Louis Magazine  (July 28, 2006).
11. Lesley Oelsne, High Court Limits Requirement to Grant Sabbath Off, New York Times (June 17, 1977).

Episode 6 – The ADA Strikes Back in Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc.

1. Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc., 527 U.S. 471 (1999).
2. Stephen F. Befort, The Story of Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc.: Narrowing the Reach of the Americans with Disabilities Act, in Employment Discrimination Stories (Joel Wm. Friedman ed., 2006).
3. Wendy E. Parmet, Plain Meaning and Mitigating Measures: Judicial Interpretations of the Meaning of Disability, 21 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 53 (2000).
4. Stephen F. Befort, Let’s Try This Again: The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 Attempts to Reinvigorate the “Regarded As” Prong of the Statutory Definition of Disability, 2010 Utah L. Rev. 993 (2010).
5. Katherine Hsu Hagmann-Borenstein, Much Ado About Nothing: Has the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sutton Decision Thwarted A Flood of Frivolous Litigation?, 37 Conn. L. Rev. 1121 (2005).
6. Chai R. Feldblum, Definition of Disability Under Federal Anti-Discrimination Law: What Happened? Why? And What Can We Do About It?, 21 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 91 (2000).
7. Matthew Diller, Judicial Backlash, the ADA, and the Civil Rights Model, 21 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 19 (2000).
8. Lisa Eichhorn, Applying the ADA to Mitigating Measures Cases: A Choice of Statutory Evils, 31 Ariz. St. L.J. 1071 (1999).
9. Chai R. Feldblum, Kevin Barry, Emily A Benfer, The ADA Amendments Act of 2008, 13 Tex. J. on .L. & C.R. 187 (2008).
10. Joan Biskupic, Cases Could Affect Disabilities Law, Washington Post, (Feb. 21, 1999), https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/supcourt/stories/court022199.htm.

Episode 7 – Free Agency: Remaking Supervisor Liability in Faragher v. City of Boca Raton.

1. Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998).
2. Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998).
3. Michael C. Harper & Joan Flynn, The Story of Burlington Industries v. Ellerth and Faragher v. Boca Raton: Federal Common Lawmaking for the Modern Age, in Employment Discrimination Stories (Joel Wm. Friedman ed., 2006).
4. Beth Ann Faragher, Faragher v. City of Boca Raton: A Personal Account of a Sexual Discrimination Plaintiff, 22 Hofstra. Lab. & Emp. L.J. 417 (2005).
5. Cynthia Fair, Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth and Faragher v. City of Boca Raton: A Step in the Wrong Direction, 9 B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. 409 (2000).
6. Matt Vega, Employer Liability in Sexual Harassment Cases: Two New U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, 60 Ala. Law. 43 (1999).
7. Stuart J. Goldstein, Vicarious Liability for Supervisory Sexual Harassment: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil” Is No Excuse, 29 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1037 (1999).
8. Brian S. Kruse, Strike One—You’re Out! Cautious Employers Lose Under New Sexual Harassment Law: Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 118 S. Ct. 2275, 78 Neb. L. Rev. 444 (2000).
9. Joan Biskupic, Court Draws Line on Harassment, Washington Post, p. A01 (June 27, 1998), available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/supcourt/stories/wp062798.htm.

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