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National Law Journal: Top Stories May 19, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: National Law Journal Online, May 19, 2009.

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Supreme Court rules for employer in pregnancy case

Tony Mauro

"In a decision likely to increase the pressure on President Obama to appoint a woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices ruled on Monday that employers may give less credit for long-ago pregnancy leave than for other medical leave in calculating pension benefits. Also on Monday, the high court agreed to hear a case testing the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act provision creating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and to consider newspaper magnate Conrad Black's challenge to his 2007 fraud conviction. "

Employment lawyers predict that furloughs may lead to lawsuits

Tresa Baldas 

"Furloughs may be the strategy du jour, but they might be the lawsuit of tomorrow. Furlough-related lawsuits are only a matter of time, predict management-side attorneys who warn that checking emails or voice mail while on furlough-leave can be considered work and has to be compensated under the Fair Labor Standards Act."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).