Without taking a position on the underlying matter, he lost millions of dollars of endorsement deals, including deals with McDonalds and Coca-Cola.

To be clear, I don’t entirely disagree. But that’s a normative question, rather than a legal one, to the extent the two can be distinguished. If you want to pass laws altering the baseline level of competence needed to enter into a contract, and possibly even tailor that requirement to the particular debilitating…

But I think that the difference in results is key: if CR’s team had held a gun to her head and demanded she sign the contract, it would obviously not be a valid contract. Whether telling her that they would go after her in the press constitutes a similar threat, I’m not sure. I think it’s telling that the complaint…

Yeah, there’s a significant difference between a contract and a gun. The contract is an agreement between the two parties which one can elect to void at any time if they are willing to forfeit incur whatever monetary penalty the contract calls for. That’s not the same as threatening to kill someone.

Jerry West has done pretty well for himself.

“Slate’s Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo wrote: “They can abstractly consider what the word means, but they don’t understand the visceral gut punch you feel when you hear a slur in your native language. The Mexican team’s officials, on the other hand, know exactly what puto means. At the very least, they could give a…

Yeah, the video is great, but the song is just not good at all. Beat is boring and the lyrics are washed versions of what Jay did with Kanye on the Watch the Throne.

The video set at the Louve is brilliant and the song itself is entirely-nondescript. The beat is boring and years behind anything progressive, and the lyrics were far more interesting when Jay wrote them with Kanye in 2011.

That is not how disparate impact litigation works at all. I suggest you go back and do some more reading.

It’s equally silly to conflate standard employment background checks with a background check for a high-profile position. Since it’s the Lions, let’s imagine Ford is hiring a new CEO: you think it’s outsourcing that background check and asking the firm to run the same one as if they were hiring someone for the line at…

It actually likely wouldn’t. In context of the EEOC, the disparate impact inquiry is specific to the employment at issue. So it’s not whether inquiring about the policy has an impact on whole, but whether it has a disparate impact as applied to that particular case. A policy that asks about arrests without conviction…

Title VII addresses discrimination based on sex, race, color, national origin, and religion, and all the protections you quote only apply after someone establishes they are a member of a Title VII protected group. Patrica cannot.

So, what’s the basis by which Mass. law would be applicable in this situation? Mich. law permits employers to ask about felony arrests. This entire P.R. campaign by the Lions and abetted by ESPN and credulous fans is nothing more than a post-hoc rationalization.