Groff v. DeJoy. Civil Rights. Title VII. Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Michael McConnell discuss the term’s case likely to have the greatest impact on the lower courts. The Supreme Court’s substantial cost standard increases the burden on employers to provide religious accommodations to employees and will prompt litigation necessary to define the new standard.
Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski. Civil Rights. §1983. Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Michael McConnell analyze §1983 enforcement of Spending Clause legislation, and the limitations on bringing private causes of action.
Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Michael McConnell was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and is the Richard and Francis Mallery Professor of Law, and Director of the Constitutional Law Center, at Stanford University Law School.