Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court administration
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Steffen W. Graae
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781663305510
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Michael Brostek
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780756704858
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Examines the personnel management (PM) policies & practices of the D.C. Courts. Those practices have been criticized by some employees of the D.C. Courts, who individually have alleged that the Courts' PM practices are unfair & at odds with the Courts' policies on PM. This report determined whether: the Courts' applicable policies for 6 basic personnel activities or functions were consistent with commonly accepted PM principles &, the Courts generally adhered to their policies when implementing the 6 personnel activities or functions: performance evaluation, competitive & noncompetitive promotions, corrective actions, training, classification, & equal employment opportunities policies.

Author: Richard W. Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820554495
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Jeffrey Brandon Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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This is the first full-scale history of two of the nation's most important courts: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (often called the nation's "second most important court") and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Court of Appeals has become the undisputed chief tribunal for administrative law in the United States and is the court to which Presidents often look when appointing Supreme Court justices. The District Court has become the principal venue for oversight of the executive branch of the federal government. Morris considers the factors that have influenced the development of each court; portrays the most influential of their judges; and considers the most important decisions and cases lines of each court.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bail
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1128

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428973621
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53

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Author: Sandra F. Sperino
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190278404
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis-à-vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector unionization. American workers have also lost power in other ways. Those alleging employment discrimination have fared increasingly poorly in the courts. In recent years, judges have dismissed scores of cases in which workers presented evidence that supervisors referred to them using racial or gender slurs. In one federal district court, judges dismissed more than 80 percent of the race discrimination cases filed over a year. And when juries return verdicts in favor of employees, judges often second guess those verdicts, finding ways to nullify the jury's verdict and rule in favor of the employer. Most Americans assume that that an employee alleging workplace discrimination faces the same legal system as other litigants. After all, we do not usually think that legal rules vary depending upon the type of claim brought. The employment law scholars Sandra A. Sperino and Suja A. Thomas show in Unequal that our assumptions are wrong. Over the course of the last half century, employment discrimination claims have come to operate in a fundamentally different legal system than other claims. It is in many respects a parallel universe, one in which the legal system systematically favors employers over employees. A host of procedural, evidentiary, and substantive mechanisms serve as barriers for employees, making it extremely difficult for them to access the courts. Moreover, these mechanisms make it fairly easy for judges to dismiss a case prior to trial. Americans are unaware of how the system operates partly because they think that race and gender discrimination are in the process of fading away. But such discrimination still happens in the workplace, and workers now have little recourse to fight it legally. By tracing the modern history of employment discrimination, Sperino and Thomas provide an authoritative account of how our legal system evolved into an institution that is inherently biased against workers making rights claims.