Tara Ellis
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Articles
Exclusion for Gender Reassignment Surgery May Violate Title VII and the Equal Protection Clause
USA - February 6 2020 Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 23, 2019, District Judge Rosemary Marquez ruled, in connection with a motion to dismiss, that Title VII does protect…
Retail Technology: All Talk, No Implementation
USA - September 6 2019 Prognosticators have long predicted technological advancements that will drastically change the retail industry. Retail-oriented technological…
Exclusion for Gender Reassignment Surgery May Disadvantage a “Suspect Class”
USA - August 13 2019 Seyfarth Synopsis: In Toomey v. U of Arizona, No. 19-35 (D. Ar. June 24, 2019), the Magistrate Judge determined on a motion to dismiss that Title VII…
Employer’s Duty to Accommodate High Risk Pregnancies
USA - October 23 2018 Earlier this month, Plaintiff Caroline Ruiz filed suit in the Southern District of New York against her former employer New Avon LLC, contending that…
Retail detail: taking the temperature of sick leave laws around the country
USA - September 15 2014 Paid sick leave, previously a wholly unregulated area of employment, is now becoming highly regulated by cities and states nationwide. See below for…
