Gupta then emailed a colleague complaining that SFSU was hostile toward women of color, and named two individuals for creating the hostile work environment, Don Taylor and Rita Takahashi. Many of the criticisms in the review were inaccurate. Gupta lodged her complaints, she received a negative performance review. At a follow up meeting, the women expressed concern about the Director of the School of Social Work, and more generally, about discrimination against people of color on campus.
Gupta and several other women of color in the School of Social Work lodged a complaint with the provost to express their concerns about the abuse of power, bullying, micromanagement and a hostile work environment at SFSU. Gupta had overcome her initial challenges and was receiving positive reviews from students and peer evaluators. Gupta was praised for her efforts in research, scholarship and publication. Her student evaluations were lower than average however, Dr. Gupta initially faced some hurdles when she began teaching at SFSU. After that, SFSU decides whether or not to promote a tenure track professor to the position of associate professor and award lifetime tenure.ĭr. Generally, tenure track professors work for a six year term. San Francisco State University (SFSU) hired Rashmi Gupta in 2006 as a tenure track assistant professor in the School of Social Work. Uncategorized, Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Attorneys Fees and Costs, Harassment, Disability Discrimination Continue reading “Disabled Prison Guard Wins his Third Appeal Against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation” → Read more. Then courts can increase this amount by adding a multiplier or increasing the lodestar amount by looking at various factors, such as the risk of non-payment, the public interest in advancing civil rights cases, the complexity of the issues involved, and the skill of the attorneys.
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Trial courts first calculate the lodestar amount, which is the product of the hours spent and the prevailing hourly rate of attorneys in the community conducting similar non-contingent litigation. These attorney fee awards are designed to incentivize and reward a plaintiff’s counsel for litigating a civil rights case that is generally taken on a contingency fee basis and therefore has inherent risks.
UncategorizedĬourts can award attorneys’ fees to the prevailing plaintiff in a discrimination or harassment claim brought under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). (Its leader, a fellow nicknamed “Evan from Heaven,” then went back to busking on the local pedestrian mall.) Continue reading “Opposing Voter Suppression - The Battle for Georgia” → Read more. Despite our best efforts, and many long hours spent gathering signatures in the frigid Colorado winter, the effort failed. No line, no worrying about signatures, no hassle. That’s right: pick up the phone, enter your id, cast your vote, and, presto! You are done. In college (before the internet ruled our lives), I volunteered for a small organization that was trying to get the local city council to adopt a measure that would study, and, hopefully, implement a process by which voters could cast their ballots by telephone.
The experience was both inspiring and chilling, so I am going to jot down some thoughts before the press of business and family in the “real world” re-consumes me.įirst off, a disclosure: I believe very strongly that the voting process should be as easy as possible. I am writing this from the airport in Atlanta, where I have spent the past five days doing my best to help make sure that the Georgia Senate runoff elections were fair and that all votes were counted.