Ep. 92: The Post-Oscars Legacy Of Hollywood’s ‘Inclusion Rider’

During her acceptance speech at the 2018 Academy Awards, actress Frances McDormand let the world know about inclusion riders, a novel contract provision that improves hiring practices to deepen diversity within an industry like Hollywood. In light of the 2019 Oscars on Sunday, we welcome in Kalpana Kotagal, a civil rights and employment lawyer at Cohen Milstein and a co-author of the inclusion rider, to explain what’s happened in the year since the provision took center stage. Also on this week’s Pro Say, Justice Clarence Thomas wants to open up libel laws; the Supreme Court deals a blow to civil asset forfeiture; and a judge’s dissatisfied “meh” makes its way into a published order.