Image via WikipediaPerhaps Publisher Wendy McCaw and Ampersand Publishing, owner of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press,should have quit while they were ahead.Less than a month after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with the publisher in an NLRB dispute concerning eigh ...

What's Happening and When in 2010 Last year brought many changes in labor and employment law. Expect more of the same in 2010. Join our experienced attorneys for an informative breakfast discussing all of the hot topics that will affect you and your employees:My head hurts... the new laws in effec ...

EEOC had alleged that Sears maintained an inflexible workers’ compensation leave exhaustion policy and terminated employees instead of providing them with reasonable accommodations for their disabilities, in violation of the ADA. The case resulted in the largest ADA settlement in a single lawsuit ...

Sunday post-snow funnies. WaPo: By delivering a paid keynote address at a convention other politicians had avoided because of allegations of profiteering, Palin displayed one of the traits that has electrified her anti-establishment followers: a talent for persistently and defiantly flouting the ...

A fascinating OP ED in the New York Times asks the important question, why are we now for the first time taking concussions seriously? The OP ED by Deborah Blum reveals the following warning in October of 1928 in the Journal of the American Medical Association: “There is a very definite brain injury ...

The booths are dismantled but the buzz remains intense, as we wrap up . Whirlwind: LegalTech New York We saw significant new releases from companies large ( ) and small ); learned a lot about Judge Shira Scheindlin's important on legal holds; listened with awe as (right ) compa ...

The White House and the U.S. military, with the support of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, are moving to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, codified at . Under "don't ask, don't tell," service members are not questioned ove ...

Deborah Fox & Dawn McIntosh of Meyers Nave (California) review an interesting new opinion in "8,000 Adult Items in One Store Found 'Substantial' by 2nd Circuit". In VIP of Berlin, LLC v. Town of Berlin, __ F.3d __, 2010 WL...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen has shown the white flag on defending “don’t ask, don’t tell.” He came out against it in congressional testimony this week, on the heels of Obama calling for its end in his State of the Union address.It’s a sign of how the debate has shifted on ...

According to the Washington Post, on the final day of the hearings investigating the 2009 crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, Deborah Hersman, announced further discussion by her staff into the practice of code sharing by ...