In Misetich, the Tribunal rejected the following legal test for establishing family
status discrimination known as the Johnstone test:
Not exact matches
The third decision concerned a 1992 statewide referendum in which the voters in Colorado adopted an amendment,
known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority
status, quota preferences, and claims to
discrimination.
(g) engage in conduct that the lawyer
knows or reasonably should
know is harassment or
discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital
status or socioeconomic
status in conduct related to the practice of law.
As an employer, you need to
know that employees are entitled to be free from
discrimination in the workplace on the ground of their unique family
status.
The committee's proposal «moves beyond the comment to craft a distinct rule within the black letter of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct prohibiting lawyers from engaging in harassment and
knowing discrimination in conduct related to the practice of law» against people on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital
status or socioeconomic
status.
It's also important to
know what
discrimination on the basis of family
status means.