Thomas H Prol

April 15, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal

The intersection where discrimination experienced by the elderly meets discrimination experienced by LGBTQI+ people is a space with profound disenfranchisement and potential for harm. This Bill of Rights seeks to remedy those potential harms and risks by protecting older adults in New Jersey long-term care facilities.

By Thomas H. Prol

7 minute read

January 18, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal

A charity that claims to love and serve the betterment of foster and adoptive youth, but invokes prejudice to prevent those children from being placed in a loving home represents a false prophet of compassion.

By Thomas H. Prol

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September 11, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

The evolution of the Rule of Law in America and the Garden State flows from the wellspring of liberty and equality envisioned, written out and signed on the bow of that rickety wooden ship anchored off the coast of Provincetown in the fall of 1620.

By Thomas H. Prol

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August 07, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

Despite Justice Alito's obvious frustration with Bostock's sweeping advance for LGBT workplace rights and protections, his dissent provides a meticulous, detailed roadmap to the 'virtually certain' promise of full and inclusive LGBT equality in many other areas of law and life.

By Thomas H. Prol

8 minute read

July 02, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

We can discuss academics and analyze legal principles, but the real story here is that it is 2020 and we are finally just getting around to requiring that LGBT people be secure from the whims of bigotry in the workplace.

By Thomas H. Prol

8 minute read

May 29, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

There's increasing momentum nationwide to collect demographic data for sex, gender and sexual orientation, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. New Jersey is lagging behind Pennsylvania with regard to collecting such data.

By Thomas H. Prol

7 minute read

January 03, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

Burlington County suffragist Alice Paul wrote the ERA in 1921, stating, "We shall not be safe until the principle of equal rights is written into the framework of our government." Ms. Paul's dream may soon become the 28th Amendment.

By Thomas H. Prol

6 minute read

November 14, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

How the Boy Scouts' court victory to exclude gays defeated the organization and is instructive in the struggle for LGBTQ rights today.

By Thomas H. Prol

7 minute read

September 13, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

On October 8, two days into the U.S. Supreme Court's 2019 term, the justices will take up three cases from the 2nd, 6th and 11th Circuits that will have profound implications on employment nationwide.

By Thomas H. Prol

7 minute read

June 20, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey case law tells us of how the LGBTQ community fought back through lawyers before our state courts.

By Thomas H. Prol

10 minute read