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New Law Schools Proposed for Texas
Posted on March 10, 2009Two bills are pending in the Texas legislature that would create new public law schools in Texas. Senator Royce West of Dallas has filed a bill in the Texas Senate that would create a public law school at the University...
Breaking News Employee Free Choice Act To Be Introduced Later Today
Posted on March 10, 2009At approximately 12:15 pm ESTSenator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Rep. George Miller (D-CA) are going to introduce the Employee Free Choice Act into the 111th Congress. I am sure that we are going to hear more about this. Mitchell H....
Union Has Authority To Settle Case, Despite Grievants Objection
Posted on March 09, 2009Ramos v. Tacoma Community College, ___F.3d___, 2008 WL 5341855 (9th Cir. 2008), Download Tacoma.txt is a relatively short decision which I bring to your attention because it demonstrates a fundamental principal of labor law. A settlement agreement had released the...
Funny Student Take on Laptops in Classroom
Posted on March 09, 2009The NYU Law Revue posted this preview of its annual show. This is very clever and may make you chuckle the next time that a student behind a laptop screen asks you to "repeat the question." [thanks to TaxProf and...
Undocumented worker with dual identities not entitled to overtime pay
Posted on March 09, 2009Bustamante v El Palenque Mexican Restaurant and Cantina,___F.Supp. 2d ___(S.D Tx February 3, 2009), is a very unusual case and that is why I bring it to your attention. A restaurant worker who claimed that he worked under two different...
The Beginning of The End Of Print Law Reviews
Posted on March 09, 2009The Volokh Conspiracy ran a very interesting March 7, 2009 story which reports that the major law reviews are urging to do away with print law reviews. As the posting states: The directors of many of the leading law libraries...
FMLA claim dismissed despite employee arguing that his leave was provisionally approved
Posted on March 09, 2009Reed v Lear Corp, __F.3d___ (8th Cir. February 12, 2009), is an interesting FMLA case.The court held that a plaintiff that alleged overheard an HR manager state that his leave request was "provisionally" approved did not act reasonably by relying...
More Layoffs Yields More Lawsuits
Posted on March 08, 2009Layoffs Herald a Heyday for Employee Lawsuits is an interesting Jan. 31, 2009 article from the New York Times that documents something we labor and employment lawyers all know. In bad economic times when employees are laid off, they are...
Russo, Reutter's The Law Of Public Education
Posted on March 08, 2009Charles J. Russo's Education Law text entitled Reutter's The Law of Public Education just came out with its seventh edition.This is a large book which spans 1270 pages. Therefore, the instructor will probably not be able to cover the entire...
David I.C. Thomson, Law School 2.0
Posted on March 07, 2009Denver Law School Professor David I.C. Thomson is not your typical law school professor. Why? Because he actually practiced as a lawyer for over 20 years before becoming a prof. Pretty obivious concept-professors are teaching students to be lawyers so...
Salary and Other Information About Non-Profit Corporations
Posted on March 07, 2009The Foundation Center maintains a web site where you can search Tax Form 990 and find out alot of information about non-profit organizations, including salary information. I tried one search and the latest info was from the 03 tax return....
IRS and DOL Issue Guidance On COBRA 65% Subsidy Under Federal Stimulus Legislation
Posted on March 06, 2009The IRS and the DOL have just issue guidance on the changes in COBRA as a result of the federal stimulus that we all heard so much about. The DOL Notice states: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009...
Religious Quota At Place Of Public Accommodation Unlawful
Posted on March 06, 2009Sometimes you just cannot make these facts up. The Mill River Club in Oyster Bay Long Island, a not-for-profit corporation which operates a country club, maintained a "balanced membership policy," whereby it sought to ensure that half of its members....
Defending and indemnifying an employee being sued for damages for acts or omissions that occurred in the performance of official duties
Posted on March 06, 2009Larson v County of Seneca, 2009 NY Slip Op 50177(U), Decided on February 5, 2009, Supreme Court, Ontario County, Supreme Court Justice Craig J. Doran In this action James R. Larson, a former undersheriff, Seneca County, asked Supreme Court for...
A police force is a quasi-military organization and its members are subject strict discipline
Posted on March 06, 2009Matter of Lundy v City of Oswego, 2009 NY Slip Op 00772, Decided on February 6, 2009, Appellate Division, Fourth Department George Lundy sued the City of Oswego and its mayor in an effort to annul a Civil Service Law...
The arbitrator should determine if the issue raised in a demand for arbitration is subject to arbitration under the terms of the bargaining agreement
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