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Danielle Pelfrey Duryea @pelfreyduryea.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Excellent presentation by @templelaw.bsky.social’s Jennifer Lee about worker movements and local legal reforms in Philadelphia. 💜#lawschoolclinics @sluworklaw.bsky.social

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Danielle Pelfrey Duryea @pelfreyduryea.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

At today’s @sluworklaw.bsky.social symposium. I had to miss Michael Z. Green’s keynote, alas, to teach! But I just learned that “Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law” is #Missouri’s state motto! #worklaw

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Noteworthy that in Ames all the Justices joined opinion relying on Bostock w/o filing a separate concurrence disagreeing w/Bostock as precedent. By contrast in SFFA Alito joined Gorsuch’s concurrence citing Bostock while also noting his continued disagreement www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Ames is out, and holds no special rule for disparate treatment for majority class member. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p.... It's unanimous by Justice Jackson.

Screenshot of SCOTUS opinion in Ames v. Ohio Dept of Youth Servs.
Petitioner Marlean Ames, a heterosexual woman, has worked for the
Ohio Department of Youth Services in various roles since 2004. In
2019, the agency interviewed Ames for a new management position
but ultimately hired another candidate—a lesbian woman. The agency
subsequently demoted Ames from her role as a program administrator
and later hired a gay man to fill that role. Ames then filed this lawsuit
against the agency under Title VII, alleging that she was denied the
management promotion and demoted because of her sexual orienta-
tion. The District Court granted summary judgment to the agency,
and the Sixth Circuit affirmed. The courts below analyzed Ames’s
claims under McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U. S. 792, which
sets forth the traditional framework for evaluating disparate-
treatment claims that rest on circumstantial evidence. At the first step
of that framework, the plaintiff must make a prima facie showing that
the defendant acted with a discriminatory motive. Like the District
Court, the Sixth Circuit held that Ames had failed to meet her prima
facie burden because she had not shown “ ‘background circumstances
to support the suspicion that the defendant is that unusual employer
who discriminates against the majority.’ ” 87 F. 4th 822, 825. The
court reasoned that Ames, as a straight woman, was required to make
this showing “in addition to the usual ones for establishing a prima-
facie case.” Ibid.
Held: The Sixth Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule—which re-
quires members of a majority group to satisfy a heightened evidentiary
standard to prevail on a Title VII claim—cannot be squared with the
text of Title VII or the Court’s precedents. Pp. 4–9.
(a) Title VII’s disparate-treatment provision bars employers from in-
tentionally discriminating against their employees on the basis of race,

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SLU Law Center for Health Law Studies @sluhealthlaw.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Panels with Profs Gillespie and Gatter coming up shortly. See you there! @kellygillespie.bsky.social

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SLU Law Center for Health Law Studies @sluhealthlaw.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

First sessions of #HLPC25 Day 2 underway now with our own Professor Rob Gatter presenting his work on “Harnessing The Private Bar to Police Private Equity in Health Care.”

Prof Rob Gatter speaking in front of a classroom with his slide talk title page in view.

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SLU Law Center for Health Law Studies @sluhealthlaw.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The SLU Center for Health Law Studies is thrilled to be traveling to Boston for the 2025 #HealthLaw Professors Conference! We’re excited to collaborate & celebrate the incredible work happening across the field. Check out the graphic to see when you can catch our faculty presenting! #HLPC25

THURSDAY:

Kelly Gillespie: 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 3B Panel: New Legal Strategies Against SUD Discrimination in Health Care

Robert Gatter: 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 3D Panel: Corporate Financialization in Health Care: Profit, Power, Governance, and Debt

Jamille Fields Allsbrook 1:45 - 3:15 PM 4F Discussion Group: Private Law Approaches to Mediating the Harm of Abortion Bans

Theodosia Stavroulaki 3:30 - 5 PM 5D Panel: Non-Profit Hospitals and Their Communities

FRIDAY:

Sidney Watson: 10:15 - 11:45 AM 6D Panel: Medicaid Demonstrations: Work Requirements and the Future of Sect. 1115

Danielle Pelfrey Duryea: 10:15 - 11:45 AM 6F Discussion Group: Law, Health, and Power: The Fight for Reproductive and Gender Justice in a Changing America

Heather Walter-McCabe: 1 - 2:30 PM 7A Panel: Sex and Gender

Michael Sinha: 2:45 - 4:15 PM 8F Panel: Direct to Prescription Marketing: Constitutional, Regulatory, and Ethical Implications

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Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

📢 CFP: Columbia–Cornell Jr Scholars Workshop on the Political Economy of Work 🗽 Dec 5–6, 2025 in NYC! Open to early-career scholars in law, soc, econ, poli sci, history. Submit 1p abstract by Sept 15 ✅ Feedback + mentoring ✅ Travel/lodging support (if needed) 🔗 forms.gle/vDkCHyenE5yQ...

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Big thanks to @sluworklaw.bsky.social for inviting me to their colloquium on religion and labor justice; and asking to author a piece in the follow-up issue of the SLU Law Journal! My contribution is: "Whose Labor Law Do We Follow? St. Louis’s Jesuits and Labor Justice." scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj/

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Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

See also the current issue of the SLU Law Journal on our employment law symposium last spring: scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj/

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SLU Law's Center for Employment Law @sluworklaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Happening now, the @sluhealthlaw.bsky.social's amazing symposium on Skrmetti and the future of gender affirming care. The health law implications we will hear about today overlap and intersect with worklaw, too.

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SLU Law's Center for Employment Law @sluworklaw.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Excited for this symposium, which has worklaw implications, too!

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SLU Law Center for Health Law Studies @sluhealthlaw.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Saint Louis University and SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital proudly announce a new academic Medical-Legal Partnership; Danielle Pelfrey Duryea (@pelfreyduryea.bsky.social) joins as the founding Director Read the full announcement here: www.slu.edu/law/news/202...

Photo of Danielle Pelfry Duryea and Scott Hall

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