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Posts from Joshua Newville, a Minnesota employment lawyer, civil rights attorney, and mediator.
MN Payment of Wages Act Amended; Employees with Unpaid Wages Have More Protection
A bipartisan unanimous vote by the Minnesota House of Representatives and a nearly unanimous vote by the Minnesota Senate resulted in a...
Joshua Newville
Jul 2, 2013
SCOTUS Kills DOMA and Prop 8; Sexual Orientation Discrimination Lives On
It’s been a busy week for employment law and civil rights. The impact of the past week’s Supreme Court decisions on these two areas of...
Joshua Newville
Jun 28, 2013
Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act
Today, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”), which is considered...
Joshua Newville
Jun 25, 2013
Supreme Court Weakens Title VII Protections
From Justice Ginsburg’s dissent in today’s Supreme Court Decision in Vance v. Ball State, which narrowly defined “supervisor” so as to...
Joshua Newville
Jun 24, 2013
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