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Claim: “most lawyers won’t even take age discrimination cases” 27 Aug 2013 | 05:37 pm
In an article today on challenges facing older jobless workers, New York Times reporter Michael Winerip asserts that “Since the Supreme Court ruling [Gross v. FBL Financial Services, a 2009 Supreme Co...
Labor and employment roundup 27 Aug 2013 | 09:05 am
“Is the main effect of the minimum wage on job growth?” [Tyler Cowen] Minimum wage is transitional wage; most workers who receive it will earn higher rate in the next year if they stay employed [same]...
School district pays private firm to monitor students’ after-hours social media 26 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
If a private employer tried to pull this kind of thing I expect there’d be an outcry: Glendale school officials have hired a Hermosa Beach company to monitor and analyze public social media posts, sa...
Want to learn what the law is? There’ll be a charge. 26 Aug 2013 | 03:52 pm
Should private standards organizations be entitled to retain copyright over building and fire codes when those codes have been adopted into public law? “On August 3, the National Fire Protection Assoc...
Stop-and-frisk as a variant of gun control? 26 Aug 2013 | 09:16 am
Operationally, it may function that way, if Barton Hinkle’s analysis is right. That would at least explain why Mayor Bloomberg would feel confident about his consistency in favoring both, though it le...
Law school roundup 26 Aug 2013 | 09:05 am
Now we’re getting somewhere? “ABA Task Force Releases Draft of Recommendations to Reform Legal Education” [Orin Kerr] “ABA Panel Favors Dropping Law School Tenure Requirement” [Karen Sloan, NLJ] Now ...
White House: dog breed bans a bad idea 25 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
It isn’t really the federal government’s business one way or the other, but the Obama administration is at least lending moral support to the idea that animal control laws should not single out partic...
A life blighted, a wrist slapped 25 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
In Hopewell, Va., Mr. Montgomery spent four years behind bars after Ms. Coast falsely accused him of a rape eight years earlier, when he was 14. Eventually she admitted she’d made it up. “Coast howeve...
“NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests” 24 Aug 2013 | 11:10 pm
We are supposed to be reassured that this kind of abuse is rare because only about one NSA employee a year gets disciplined over it. But is there good reason to think all the instances of this abuse g...
Wedding photographer loses New Mexico discrimination case 23 Aug 2013 | 07:03 pm
In Elane Photography LLC v. Vanessa Willock, the New Mexico Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that a wedding photographer is obliged under the state’s anti-discrimination law to offer its services t...
