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Posts from Joshua Newville, a Minnesota employment lawyer, civil rights attorney, and mediator.

May 9, 2014

On Friday, May 2, Joshua Newville filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The...

Oct 2, 2013

The kind of strident activism sometimes employed by advocates for marginalized groups serves one incredibly important purpose: it forces...

Jun 28, 2013

It’s been a busy week for employment law and civil rights. The impact of the past week’s Supreme Court decisions on these two areas of...

Jun 24, 2013

From Justice Ginsburg’s dissent in today’s Supreme Court Decision in Vance v. Ball State, which narrowly defined “supervisor” so as to...

Mar 4, 2013

It’s a tactic long used by defendants in both civil and criminal cases. From charges of rape to sexual harassment, men take the stand...