Theodore Eisenberg (left) & Charlotte Lanvers (center), Summary Judgment Rates Over Time, Across Case Categories, and Across Districts: An Empirical Study of Three Large Federal Districts (120). Michelle A. Travis (right), Looking Back at the ADA Backlash: How the Americans…
HR Benefits and the Law | The Human Resource, July 31, 2008 3:53 am | 
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Ross Runkel brings to our attention a decision by the Fourth Circuit in NLRB v. Mullican Lumber (4th Cir. 7/25/08), in which the court held that the employer did not violate the NLRA in withdrawing recognition of a union. Here’s…
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BNA Daily Labor Report (subscription required) has a story about OSHA lowering the boom on a serious industrial accident: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposes an $8,777,500 fine against Imperial Sugar—the third-largest fine in OSHA history—in connection with combustible…
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We’ve posted before about some of the problems with politics infecting hiring at the Department of Justice. Now the DOJ’s own internal investigation has found that some of the hiring throughout the DOJ was unlawfully based on politics (the text…
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I’m live-blogging from the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Palm Beach. Right now, I’m at the New Scholars Workshop on Religion and the Law. Keith Blair (Baltimore) just spoke on Praying for a Job: Why Employees Need…
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The Tenth Annual National Law Students Workers’ Rights Conference, sponsored by The Peggy Browning Fund, will be held October 17 & 18, 2008, at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland. Registration is due by August 28 for students…
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The NLRB has often been criticized for not seeking 10(j) injunctions enough (these are the discretionary injunctions that the NLRB can seek while a case is pending with the Board), but you can see why. In Timmins v. Narricot Industries,…
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Via Paul and the BNA comes a report on this United States District Court decision EEOC v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in which Wal-Mart allegedly refused to hire two children of a woman who had filed a charge of discrimination with…
HR Benefits and the Law | The Human Resource, July 30, 2008 4:41 pm | Comments (0)
I use a lot of video in my employment law class in large part because the class covers so many topics at such a superficial level that video can make a subject’s complexity resonate more effectively in a much shorter…
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Michael Goldberg (Widener) has just posted on SSRN his article (forthcoming Suffolk U. L. Rev.) In the Cause of Union Democracy. Here’s an excerpt from the abstract: [The] article makes two broad[] points. First, it argues that the cause of…
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