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Victory: Third Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Rights of Transgender Students
This afternoon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that upheld a Pennsylvania school district’s policy that permits transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity. Court...
City of Philadelphia Still Fighting The Chamber of Commerce’s Effort to Block Equal Pay Law
Both the City of Philadelphia and the Chamber of Commerce are appealing a federal judge's recent ruling on a prior-wage equal pay ordinance signed into law by Mayor Jim Kenney in January 2017. As we told you back in early May, a U.S. District Court for the Eastern...
WLP Analysis: U.S. Supreme Court Guts Workers’ Rights
In Epic Systems Corp v. Lewis, a 5-4 decision issued on May 21, 2018 (PDF), the United States Supreme Court held that employer-imposed mandatory arbitration clauses that prevent employees from filing class actions in court are enforceable. This decision, written by...
Victory: Third Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Rights of Transgender Students
This afternoon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that upheld a Pennsylvania school district’s policy that permits transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity. Court...
What You Need to Know about Trump’s Attack on Title X
The Title X Family Planning Program was established by President Richard Nixon in 1970 in order to help alleviate poverty and improve the health of women and children. It fulfilled Nixon’s promise that “no American woman should be denied access to family planning...
