San Antonio Employment Law Blog
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San Antonio Employment Law Blog focuses on labor cases involving wrongful conduct by the employer in Texas. Thomas J. Crane focuses on cases involving wrongful conduct by the employer. He has been practicing employment law for 20 years. He had his own law practice in San Antonio for many years prior to being called to active duty in 2003. He then worked for Disability Rights of Texas,..
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
1d ago
I wrote about Rudy Giuliani’s quixotic attempts to overturn the 2020 election results here and here. I mentioned not a few times how strange it was to see any lawyer, but especially a lawyer with Giuliani’s stature, risk his law license based on such flimsy cases. Yet, he did. And, now he has been disbarred ..read more
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
1w ago
So, now Infowars will be auctioned off. Alex Jones opposed the move in a Houston bankruptcy court. But, theJudge found that was the way to best satisfy the judgments against the conspiracy theorist. See CBS news report here. I previously wrote about Alex Jones and the lawsuits against him here and here. It’s a strange ..read more
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
1w ago
There are several things an employer can ask in an interview. Let’s discuss a few. 1. How old are you? This is not a good question to ask. There are very few jobs in which age is a legitimate requirement for the job. Inevitably, this question will suggest age bias. It is best to not ..read more
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
3w ago
Those of us who practice within the boundaries of the Fifth Circuit (Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi) have known for some time that the Fifth Circuit has become the most aggressively conservative appellate court in the country. In fact, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, that was an appeal from a ..read more
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
3w ago
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has been overruled a few times in the past few years. You know a court is too conservative when it is too conservative even for the very conservative U.S. Supreme Court. In the latest example, a group of five plaintiffs filed suit in the Western District of Louisiana objecting ..read more
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
1M ago
Summary judgment is the employer’s go-to defense to a discrimination lawsuit. For a few decades now, many Federal judges have used summary judgment as a tool for clearing his/her docket. But, in Dabassi v. Motiva Enterprises, No. 23-20166 (5th Cir. 7/16/2024), the court of appeals reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment. In this ..read more
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
1M ago
DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) is under a magnifying glass in many sectors, one of which is employment. Joshua Young, a correctional officer in the Colorado prison system filed suit after he was required to attend DEI training. He alleged the DEI training left him feeling marginalized. The training discussed “white supremacy” and “white exceptionalism ..read more
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
1M ago
In a recent decision, the Fifth Circuit has suggested an odd practice. In Bunker v. Dow Chemical, No. 24-20046 (%th Cir. 8/7/2024), Ms. Bunker filed her EEOC charge, but she did not check the block at the top for “FEPA.” It is important to check that block to indicate you, as the Charging Party wish ..read more
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
2M ago
There has been much talk about Project 2025, a book published by the Heritage Foundation. Many of the authors were major players in the last Trump administration. So, we can expect the contents of the almost 900 page book to fuel many policy proposals in a new Trump administration, if there is one. The book ..read more
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
2M ago
We often hear about the Magna Carta and how that great document eventually led to our Declaration of Independence. But, what was the Magna Carta all about? In 2015, San Antonio’s own Prof. Vincent R. Johnson at St. Mary’s Law School wrote a nice piece about the Magna Carta. He explained in his article what ..read more