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By Mitchell H. Rubinstein

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 01:00:00

Ravitch Regains Lieutenant Governor Job In New York

Posted on September 24, 2009
The New York Court of Appeals ruled 4-3 that Governor David A. Paterson has the constitutional power to fill a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor. The Court reversed the rulings of two lower courts. "While there can be...

Women In Combat

Posted on September 24, 2009
G.I Jane Breaks Combat Barrier is an interesting August 15, 2009 article from the New York Times. While women are technically barred from combat, many commanders are getting around that. As the article states: Before 2001, America?s military women had...

English Court System

Posted on September 24, 2009
Her Majesty's Courts Service is English court systems web site. Readers as well as foreign researchers may find this web site of interest. Mitchell H. Rubinstein

America's First Muslim College

Posted on September 23, 2009
The September 25, 2009 Chronicle of Higher Education has an excellent article entitled Islamic Scholars Plan for America's First Muslim College. (registration required) It is about the work of two American Scholars of Islam who are building support for a...

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EEOC To Issue Regs On ADA Amendments Act of 2008

Posted on September 23, 2009
The EEOC has approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking revising its regulations to provide that an individual seeking protection under the ADA establish that he or she has a disability consistent with the original, expansive intent of Congress when it...

Seton Hall Law School Symposium is entitled "Securities Regulation and the Global Economic Crisis: What Does the Future Hold?"

Posted on September 23, 2009
Seton Hall Law Review is holding an interesting symposium on Oct. 30, 2009. The Symposium is entitled "Securities Regulation and the Global Economic Crisis: What Does the Future Hold?", and will take place at Seton Hall University School of Law...

Federal Judge Ratings

Posted on September 23, 2009
The Robbing Room is a site by lawyers which rates federal judges. Readers may find it of interest. Mitchell H. Rubinstein

According to one out-of-touch British academic, curvy students are a "perk of the job"

Posted on September 23, 2009
If being stalked by students (see below) is an occupational hazard of being a prof, then enjoying female students who like to "flash their curves" is the upside according to one British academic. In a story that's burning up the...

U. Wisconsin Law School colloquium on "The Death of Big Law"

Posted on September 23, 2009
As part of its fall "corporate governance" series, the University of Wisconsin is today hosting a talk by Professor Larry E. Ribstein, the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, called "The...

EFCA Revisions On The Way

Posted on September 22, 2009
Sen. Arlen Specter, long the most closely-watched man in America when it comes to labor law reform, embraced his latest role last week: as a passionate Democrat declaring that a revised Employee Free Choice Act will pass this year. The...

3rd Circuit Holds Contractor Could Bring Section 1981 Claim

Posted on September 22, 2009
Brown v J. Kaz, Inc, ___F.3d____(3d Cir. September 11, 2009), is an interesting case of first impression in the Third Circuit. The Third joins the 1st, 7th, and 11th Circuits in holding that an independent contractor may bring a racial...

PDF Copies Of Bound U.S. Supreme Court Opinions Now Available

Posted on September 22, 2009
The Supreme Court itself now has posted on its web site pdf copies of its bound decisions. Available here. Only decisions from 1991 and newer are available. Note, the file is actually the entire bound volume. It would have been...

Rent-A-Textbook

Posted on September 22, 2009
You heard of rent a car, now there is rent a textbook. An August 13, 2009 New York Times article about one such company is available here. The story is about the nation?s largest textbook publishers, Cengage Learning, which recently...

Iqbal and Employment Law

Posted on September 21, 2009
Plaintiffs Groups Mount Effort To Undo Supreme Court's Iqbal Ruling is an important Sept. 21, 2009 National Law Journal article that reminds us how important FRCP are to employment law and in particular employment discrimination law. Basically, a number of...

Workplace Violence at Yale

Posted on September 21, 2009
Prawfs Blawg had an excellent September 19, 2009 posting about Annie Le's murder and I thought we could join in the discussion.Professor Simon's point is that the police are characterizing the crime as workplace crime to avoid any focus on...

NLRB: Discriminatee's remedy not affected by felony, quitting interim job, medical leave

Posted on September 21, 2009
Jackson Hospital Corp dba Kentucky River Medical Center, 354 NLRB No 42, (July 9, 2009), is an interesting NLRB decision. A hospital's back pay and reinstatement obligations for unlawfully discharging an x-ray technician were not effected by the ex-employee's subsequent...

The 30-day suspension without pay limitation in Civil Service Law �75 controls unless the employee is the cause of a delay in the proceeding

Posted on September 21, 2009
Matter of Ruggiero v McGrane, 2009 NY Slip Op 06026, Decided on July 28, 2009, Appellate Division, Second Department Jean-Ann McGrane, Poughkeepsie?s City Manager, sustained the finding that that Paul Ruggiero was guilty of certain charges of misconduct...

Are you being stalked by a student?

Posted on September 21, 2009
If things weren't already difficult enough for adjunct faculty, now you can also start worrying about whether you'll be the victim of a stalking student. According to this psychology professor, academics face a higher than average risk of being stalked...

Strategies for getting class discussion back on track

Posted on September 21, 2009
For those teachers looking for advice on how to recover when class discussion careens out of control (or at the very least wonders off course), here's an excellent column from Inside Higher Ed. As the author says in the beginning:...

100 Blog Posts About Going To Law School

Posted on September 20, 2009
100 Blog Posts You Should Read Before Going to Law School is an interesting collection of articles written by Hannah Watson of Onlinecourses.org, a commercial web site. I reproduce their links with the hope that it may be helpful to...

4th Annual Colloquium On Legal Scholarship

Posted on September 20, 2009
The 4th Annual Colloquium On Legal Scholarship is being held Sept. 25th and Sept. 26 at Seton Hall Law Center in Newark N.J. A copy of the full program is available by clicking Download Colloquium-Program_Sep-17-for-colloquium-site The conference web site is...

Washington 18 Day Teacher Strike Ends

Posted on September 19, 2009
On Sept. 14, 2009, the Associated Press reported that Kent School District?s teachers have agreed to end a strike with a new contract. The new contract was approved by 94% of the teachers. It reduces class sizes, increases the time...

Chamber Releases Doomsday Report On Obama NLRB

Posted on September 18, 2009
The NLRB in the Obama Administration What To Expect is a 79 page report written by the Ogeletree Deakins firm for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce which every labor lawyer and scholar should read. The report starts out by stating...

Peer Review Main Stream Law Review Articles

Posted on September 18, 2009
PRSM or Peer Reviewed Scholarship Marketplace is an important organization for professors and future scholars to be aware of. There are 4 members of this organization: Current Members: Mississippi Law Journal South Carolina Law Review Stanford Law Review Wake Forest...

E-Filing System Extended In New York

Posted on September 18, 2009
Those of you who practice in federal court realize how civilized and professional the federal ECF system is. New York had a pilot system for some time called E-Filing. It is now going to be expanded throughout the state. An...

New Study On College Loan Student Debt

Posted on September 18, 2009
Student debt is a fact of life for many college and law school students. This has important public policy implications because the amount of student debt will influence where a students goes to school, where he or she may live...

How to write a CV for an academic job

Posted on September 17, 2009
Here's some very practical advice for those seeking an academic job courtesy of Inside Higher Ed. The format of a CV should be as clear and easy on the eyes as possible. Use white space and highlighting to mark divisions...

Johns Hopkins student kills intruder with samurai sword

Posted on September 17, 2009
Ok, so there's no literal connection between this story and the normal beat covered by the Adjunct Law Prof Blog (to paraphrase Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski) but it's too bizarre not to share with all of you. According...

Obsese Employees and Workers Compensation

Posted on September 17, 2009
Obese Employees and Workers Comp. Ever thought that they may be related to each other? Well, some courts have. The September 15, 2009, National Law Journal ran a story about two cases where an employer had to pay for lap...

Health Care Bill Released

Posted on September 17, 2009
The Americans Healthy Future Act of 2009 has been released, here. Workplace Prof Blog has an excellent analysis of the Bill which appears here. The Bill spans 223 pages and is quite complicated. While I doubt that this is the...

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