As busy lawyers, we deal daily with the dreaded statute of limitations. State of limitations is the legal term referring to the deadline by which a lawsuit must be filed. Perhaps no area of law deals with the SOL more than Personal Injury lawyers. So, there is always some temptation to “fudge” the record if
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Judges are Killing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
By Thomas J. Crane on
Posted in Litigation and trial practice
A federal judge writes a nice blog on federal judges. See herculesandtheumpire.com. He discusses the studies on employment cases in the Northern District of Georgia. I wrote about that study here.
Judge Richard Kopf titles his blog post, "Judges are Killing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." The judge wrote…
Georgia Study Shows Discrimination Cases are Disfavored
By Thomas J. Crane on
Posted in Discrimination
Two Atlanta area lawyers researched discrimination cases in the Northern District of Georgia. They found among the cases filed in federal court, 80% were dismissed without a trial. In a report published in the Oct. 20, 2013 edition of the Atlanta Journal Constotution, the lawyers looked at 181 discrimination cases alleging race, sex harassment, national…