Jury Awards New Haven City Worker $500k in Age and Reverse Race...
Daniel SchwartzAs one blogger posted over the weekend: Its tough to try employment cases around Christmas time. Just ask the City of New Haven. Late last week, a jury in the Superior Court jury...
View ArticleCourt: Connecticut Anti-Discrimination Employment Laws Are For Employees, Not...
Daniel SchwartzOne of the underlying fears that many employers have is that anti-discrimination laws will eventually be interpreted so broadly, that they will be open to litigation even for the most...
View ArticleThe Stealth Limitation on State Law Employment Discrimination Claims
Daniel SchwartzTo bring state law employment discrimination claims to court, it is well-known that an employee has to first file the claim with the state agency responsible for investigating the claim...
View ArticleAppellate Court: Trial Court Was Wrong To Deny Summary Judgment Without Oral...
Daniel SchwartzThere is an unspoken truth about the Superior Courts in Connecticut: Summary judgment for employers in employment-related claims is typically a long shot. Of course, there are...
View ArticleA Look at the Statistics of Civil Cases Filed at Connecticut Superior Court
Daniel SchwartzPop quiz time. Over the last 18 years, has the number of claims filed at the Superior Court level in Connecticut has: a) Gone up; b) Stayed the same; c) Gone down If you answered "a",...
View ArticleObservations from a Prospective Juror: My Day at the Hartford Superior Court
Daniel SchwartzOver the years, I’ve had the opportunity to conduct "voir dire" — an outdated Latin phrase meaning "to speak the truth" — which is the process in which we select jurors for a possible...
View ArticleWednesday P.M. Coronavirus Recap: FFCRA Poster
As I was saying about some days… Wednesday merits TWO posts. Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Labor released it’s poster that employers must use starting April 1, 2020. You can download the poster...
View ArticleNo Such Thing as a Small Victory: $1 for the Plaintiff, $95,000 for his Attorney
Suppose a national origin discrimination case goes to a jury trial (I know we’re not having jury trials during this pandemic, but humor me). The jury comes back with a verdict finding for the...
View ArticleWhy Judges Like Robert Satter Still Matter
Connecticut lost a fine trial judge this week. Judge Robert Satter died Monday at the age of 92. Most employers have probably never heard of him. That’s a shame because they probably would’ve liked...
View ArticleCourt Upholds Use of Fluctuating Work Week Method in Connecticut
My colleague, Mick Lavelle, has this post on a topic that few know about and even fewer understand: The Fluctuating Work Week. For more background on the subject, I’ve talked about it in earlier...
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