EEOC claimed that a hotel refused to hire non-Chinese banquet servers because of their national origin. EEOC also claimed that the hotel subjected female employees to a sexually hostile work environment. The two suits have been settled for $500,000 and a three-year consent decree. EEOC Pres ...

Don't miss the Faculty Lounge's series on Greek sovereign debt, featuring contributions by Lee Bucheit, Mitu Gulati, and Anna Gelpern so far ... it's just the sort of rare mini-symposium that you don't often see in the blogosphere that often, present company excepted, and the writing is pretty witty ...

Marvin Gaye was a tremendous singer, but he wasn't always so great at keeping track of his personal finances. He spent lavishly, which meant that he often couldn't cover his bills. He was having particularly big trouble footing the bill for his 1977 divorce from Anna Gordy, so Gaye's lawyer worked o ...

By Donald Zuhn -- BIO CEO Asks President to Focus on Unresolved Issues in Health Care Debate Writing for True/Slant earlier this month, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) President and CEO Jim Greenwood provided his organization's take on recent efforts by President Obama to re-write the bios ...

I thought the RealClearPolitics link to Anna Quindlen’s Newsweek article, “Obama Won. Now Follow the Leader,” was a mischaracterization of it. She couldn’t have really said that. But she did, and it isn’t. The article’s actual title accurately summarizes its argument: “Follow the Leader. We elected ...

It can really bug me when blogs have posts that are just a naked attempt to draw traffic to their site. These posts always are sure to contain a few words that will attract the attention of search engine users...

Active opposition against the so called SWIFT agreement on the rendition of financial data from the European Union to the United States of America seems to be growing among experts, in the European Parliament and beyond.One the one hand, there is the interim TFTP agreement the member states’ governm ...

It is not really "news" but it is important to remember that "Immigrants often see peril in reporting domestic abuse." KJ

Marlon Brando’s ex-wife is suing for what she calls the wrongful death of Christian Brando (right), the son she had with Marlon. In a lawsuit filed today, Anna Kashfi claims that the doctor who treated Christian [...]

Kevin Noonan, of the blog Patent Docs, reported earlier this week that President Obama is not satisfied with the twelve-year data exclusivity period contained in the current health care reform bill. Noonan’s post comments on a report by Steve Usdin of Biocentury of a recent meeting at the White Hous ...