Twenty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rewrote the textbook on employment discrimination law through an aggressive series of rulings limiting the rights of employees with job bias claims. Congress retaliated with the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Could the just-ended high court term trigger a Civil Rights Act of 2009?

The justices issued five major job bias decisions this term. Two of the rulings already have provoked a sharp response from some leading congressional Democrats, and only one represents a clear win for employees, noted labor and management practitioners and scholars.

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