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Political Blog Wins An Award For Reporting
Posted on March 09, 2008The Feb. 28, 2008 New York Times in an artice entitled "Blogger, Sans Pajamas, Rakes Muck and a Prize" discusses the fact that a blog, Talking Points Memo (www.talkingpointsmemo.com), is the first Internet-only news operation to receive the Polk award...
Law Review Letterhead Bias
Posted on March 09, 2008During this Spring submission season, the Faculty Lounge is running an interesting posting entitled "Are Law Reviews Guilty of Letterhead Bias?" Judging from the comments, the answer is a clear yes. My own experience has borne this out. I have...
First Ever Strike By Bloggers
Posted on March 09, 2008The AFL-CIO Blog reported on March 8, 2008 about the first ever blogger labor strike. The bloggers are writers at The Honolulu Advertiser and members of The Newspaper Guild-CWA Local 39117. There strike has purportedly been successful. As the article...
Justice Thomas' Silence
Posted on March 09, 2008The AP ran an interesting Feb. 25, 2008 article discussing the fact that Justice Thomas has not asked a question from the bench in two years. As the article states: Two years and 144 cases have passed since Supreme Court...
Student Writing Competition On Employment Law Sponsored By ABA And Mercer Law School
Posted on March 09, 2008The ABA and Mercer Law School are again sponsoring the annual student writing competition. Prizes will range from $300 to $1,000 and the deadline is June 1st. The competition seeks the following types of student writings: Topics The submission may...
NYU Law School Announces New Online Executive LL.M. in Tax
Posted on March 09, 2008NYU Law School recently announced that is offering a online Executive Tax LLM degree. NYU Law School describes the program as follows: Welcome to E-LLM, the home page of the new graduate-level program in Tax Law at New York University?s...
California Appellate Court Holds That Students May Only Be Home Schooled By Certified Teachers
Posted on March 08, 2008In Re: Rachel L v. Superior Court, ___ Cal. App. 4th ___(2d App. Dist. 2008), is a major home schooling decision which just came out by an appellate court in California. The Second District Court of Appeal ruled that California...
Lawyer['] Writings Wrongs
Posted on March 08, 2008There is a new blog in town, Lawyer['] Writings Wrongs which is designed to highlight "things" lawyers say in briefs. This blog describes its function as follows: Read something worthy of ridicule in opposing counsel's briefs? Share it with the...
Omitting Previous Employer Disqualifies Employee For Unemployment
Posted on March 07, 2008Matter of Elsayed v. Commissioner, __A.D.3d__(3rd De'pt March 6, 2008), demonstrates how serious a misrepresentation can be on an employment application. After 20 months on the job, the employer discovered that the employee omitted a previous employer on the employment...
NLRB Proposes Regulations Essentially Allowing Regional Directors To Act As Quasi-Arbitrators If The Parties Agree
Posted on March 07, 2008On Feb. 26, 2008, a new proposed NLRB regulation was published in the Federal Register, available here. Under this regulation the parties can jointly petition the NLRB for an election and the Regional Director will decide the case. However, there...
Employee Blogging and Legal Reform
Posted on March 07, 2008I just read a wonderful law review article by Professors Rafael Gely and Leonard Bierman entitled "Social Isolation and American Workers: Employee Blogging and Legal Reform", 20 Harv. J. of L. & Tech. (Spr. 2007). In this article, Professor Gely...
Undocument Aliens Protected Under The NLRA
Posted on March 07, 2008Agri v. NLRB, ___F.3d___ (D.C. Cir. Jan. 4, 2008), is an important labor law case. The D.C. Circuit held that undocumented aliens are employees under the NLRA and may belong to the same bargaining unit as legal workers. The D.C....
Breaking News 2d Circuit Hears Appeal Of Student Disciplined For Using Vulgar Slang On Internet Blog
Posted on March 06, 2008Doninger v. Niehoff, No. 3:07CV1129, ___F.Supp. 2d___, copy available here Download DoningerUSDC.pdf appeal argued (March 4, 2008), is a critically important student free speech case to watch. A Connecticut High School Student used vulgar slang on an Internet blog which...
GPS and Liability For Technology Failures
Posted on March 06, 2008The Legal Landscape of GPS Devices is an interesting March 5, 2008 New York Law Journal article by Peter Neger. In this article, the author notes our increasing dependence on technology such as cell phones and GPS devices and discusses...
Judges Who Blog
Posted on March 06, 2008I have been looking around for a central listing of judges who blog and I have concluded that there is none. Therefore, I thought I would develop a list and if anyone knows of others, please add a comment to...
Touro Law School Now Says It Is Not For Sale
Posted on March 06, 2008As reported here and here there was talk of Touro being sold to SUNY Stony Brook. Now in a March 5, 2008 Newsday article entitled Touro chief says law school not for sale the Touro President states that discussions never...
Classroom Fundraising
Posted on March 05, 2008There is an interesting March 4, 2008 School Law article in the New York Law Journal entitled "School Law" (registration required). The article discusses a recent administrative decision which interpreted Board of Regents rule 19.6 which prohibits fundraising in the...
Familial Status and Discrimination Under Title VII
Posted on March 05, 2008Adamson v. Multi Community, ___F.3d___(10th Cir. Feb. 1, 2008), is an important Title VII case.The court rejected the claim of a husband, wife and daughter who argued that their familial status was the reason for their terminations in violation of...
Teleconferencing Gets Ready for Prime Time
Posted on March 05, 2008Teleconferencing Gets Ready for Prime Time is an interesting Feb. 22, 2008 Law Technology News article by Lindsay Thomson. The article reviews advances in teleconference technology which makes it possible to see very fine details that previously could only be...
Two New LII Blog's From Cornell Law School
Posted on March 05, 2008Cornell Law School runs a wonderful service called LII where you can sign up for free emails that preview and summarize Supreme Court cases. They just started a blog called LII Announce which appears designed to announce recent important legal...
Can Parents Be FoundNeglectful For Raising An Extremely Overweight Child?
Posted on March 04, 2008We do not generally comment on family law matters. However, Matter of Brittany T. v Shawn T, ___A.D.3d ___ (3rd Dept. Feb. 28, 2008), is a particularly shocking case which many may find of interest. The state sought to remove...
NLRB Issues Important Decision Discussing The Line Between NLRA and RLA Jurisdiction
Posted on March 04, 2008Aircraft Services, International, 352 NLRB No. 23 (Feb. 20, 2008), is an interesting NLRB case concerning the line between a Railway Labor Act carrier and a NLRA employer. The Board held that fuelers, GSE (ground service equipment) mechanics, tank farm...
Co-Worker Harassment and Employer Liability
Posted on March 04, 2008Hawkins v. Anheuser, ___F.3d___(6th Cir. Feb. 19, 2008), is an interesting Title VII case. The court held that in certina circumstances, Title VII permits claims against an employer for coworker retaliation. An employer will be liable for a coworker's actions...
Who is Donating To Who?
Posted on March 04, 2008The Huffington Post maintains a listing of donors to the major political campaigns. Just plug in a person's name and you can see how much he or she contributed and who they contributed too. Every one is included in this...
Case Dismissed Due To Plaintiff's Deletion of Numerous Computer Files After A Demand Was Made For Them
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