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By Mitchell H. Rubinstein

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Interesting Article On 2008 ADA Amendments

Posted on May 17, 2009
ADA Amendments More In Line With New York State and City Law is an interesting April 20, 2009 article from the New York Law Journal (registration required). The article, provides in part: Under the ADA, an employee is protected if...

Negotiation Ethics

Posted on May 16, 2009
Ethics and Negotiating: Truth or Consequences? is a very interesting April 21, 2009 New York Law Journal article.Download 125192-1 As its title implies, it concerns the ethical obligation of attorneys with respect to negotiations.The premise of the article is that...

The Difficulty In Organizing Unions

Posted on May 16, 2009
Bid To Organize Nurses Faces Setback in Congress is an interesting April 20, 2009 New York Times article by Steven Greenhouse. Its about the struggles organized labor has had in trying to organize nurses at a Louisville, Ky hospital for...

Vault's Office Romance Statistics

Posted on May 15, 2009
The results may surprise you. Available here. Mitchell H. Rubinstein

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LSAT Blog

Posted on May 15, 2009
When I was applying to law school, I knew very little about it. The only lawyers I knew were some of my college profs and the only thing I knew about the LSAT was what a read about in Barons....

Labor Peace At Yale

Posted on May 15, 2009
After Years of Rancor, Yale and Unions Reach Deals Early is an interesting April 16, 2009 New York Times article by Steven Greenhouse. Greenhouse reports that Yale and its two unions reached a new 3 year labor agreement. What is...

Whether and How to Consolidate Arbitral Proceedings

Posted on May 15, 2009
Whether and How to Consolidate Arbitral Proceedings is a interesting New York Law Journal article from April 13, 2009. Though it discusses case law involving commercial arbitration under the FAA, that may be helpful to lawyers and scholars interested in...

New York State Assembly passes Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act

Posted on May 14, 2009
The New York State Assembly passed a bill (A. 5710) that would prohibit discrimination based on gender identity or expression in employment, housing, credit and public accommodations. The proposed measure, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, would declare as a civil...

Brooklyn Law School Under Investigation

Posted on May 14, 2009
As readers of this blog all know, the U.S. News and World Reports rankings-as flawed as they are-are regarded as the bible by many. To mean anything, the data must be accurate. The National Law Journal is reporting that Brooklyn...

Possible Cheating At Syracuse Law School

Posted on May 14, 2009
Law Librarian Blog links to a disturbing story from Syracuse.com SU Law school curbs bathroom breaks to flush out cheaters. It is about a report that Syracuse Law School limited restroom breaks for 1Ls to one per final exam this...

Union has no duty to act after member files a grievance on his or her own behalf

Posted on May 14, 2009
George Carr and Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO and County Of Westchester. ALJ Blassman, PERB U-27258 The ALJ dismissed Carr's charge, which alleged that CSEA violated ��209-a.2(a) and (c) of the Act when it refused his...

Stanford and open office hours on facebook experiment

Posted on May 14, 2009
I'm not very conversant with facebook but this experiment seems interesting. See Legal Writing Prof Blog for details. I do know that the few times I used TWEN chat for a review session (due to scheduling problems) I had mixed...

Archdiocese Not Liable For Sexual Molestation Of Student

Posted on May 13, 2009
Doe v. Brouillette, ___N.E.2d. ___ (Ill. 1st. Dist. March 31, 2009), is an important decision which does not seem to have gotten much press. The court held that a guidance counselor who was part of the religious order that established...

NYU Dental School Ordered To Award Student Dental Degree

Posted on May 13, 2009
Eidlisz v. NYU, ___A.D.3d___(1st Dept. April 14, 2009), is a very unusual case. A New York appellate court took the unusual step of ordering NYU to award a former student a dental degree. The court characterized the dispute as one...

Vermont legalizes same-sex marriage and becomes first state to do so by statute

Posted on May 13, 2009
On April 7, 2009 Vermont became the fourth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage, overriding a veto from Governor Jim Douglas (R) to make it the first state to legalize same-sex marriage by statute (S. 115). Only four...

Court grants 10(j) petition, medical center must bargain with union

Posted on May 13, 2009
Norelli v Fremont-Rideout Health Group, __F.Supp. 2d___ (E.D. Cal. April 7, 2009), is an interesting case. The court granted a motion for injunctive relief filed on behalf of the NLRB, ordering a regional medical center to recognize a nurses' union...

Ethical Issues and Blogging

Posted on May 12, 2009
The Legal Blog Watch has an excellent posting entitled Do We Need Ethics Rules on Ex Parte Blogging? It discusses a law review article by Rachel Lee in the Stanford Law Review Ex Parte Blogging: the Legal Ethics of Supreme...

Transgender veteran prevails in sex sterotyping case

Posted on May 12, 2009
Schroer v Billington, ___F.Supp. 2d____(D.D.C.April 28, 2009), is an interesting decision. The court holds that a transgender veteran is entitled to $491,190 in damages for the discrimination she suffered because of her sex, after being initially offered and then refused...

CBA's language suggested healthcare benefits were vested, could not be changed

Posted on May 12, 2009
Retirement benefits cases are always difficult for courts to decide. Cases involving health insurance are even more difficult to decide. Tackett v M&G Polymers, USA, ___F.3d___ (6th Cir. April 3, 2009), is one such important case primarily dealing with retiree...

Policewoman cannot wear hijab while in uniform

Posted on May 12, 2009
Webb v City of Philadelphia, ___F.3d___(3d Cir. April 7, 2009), is an interesting decision. The 3rd held that Philadelphia need not accommodate a Muslim policewoman's request to wear a hijab with her uniform, because to do so would put an...

N.Y. Governor Patterson Settles Reverse Discrimination Suit For $300,000!!

Posted on May 11, 2009
The May 5, 2009 New York Post reported, here, that Gov. Patterson settled a reverse discrimination law suit for $300,000. Just after the Gov. had became Democratic minority leader, Patterson fired a photographer. The Post reports that the Gov. claims...

A Non-Judge Supreme Court Justice??

Posted on May 11, 2009
Another excellent posting from Legal Blog watch is Law Profs Urge Non-Judge for Souter Seat It reports on two apparently well regarded law professors (Daniel J. Meador, James Monroe professor of law emeritus at the University of Virginia School of...

Can Courts Increase Atty Fee Awards??

Posted on May 11, 2009
The Supremes granted certiorari on April 6, 2009 in Perdue (govenor of Georgia) v. Kenny A., et al. (08-970). At issue in the case was more than a 10 million dollar atty fee award in a case involving neglect of...

Surprise, Suprise It Takes Older Workers More Time To Find Jobs

Posted on May 11, 2009
Longer Periods of Unemployment For Workers 45 and Older is an interesting April 12, 2009 New York Times article. It documents something we all know. Older workers have more difficulty finding jobs than others. As the article states: The recession?s...

Gaming SSRN Downloads

Posted on May 10, 2009
The Legal Writing Prof Blog ran an interesting April 11, 2009 posting entitled Harvard researchers find academics "game" SSRN downloads - envy, not money, is the motive. Unfortunately, this is no surprise to me. Some of the highest downloaded papers-well...

Summer Associates-The Party Is Over

Posted on May 10, 2009
A Bummer of A Summer is an interesting April 13, 2009 National Law Journal article. With law firm layoffs, it should come as no surprise that firms are cutting down on their summer associate programs. As the article states: The...

CALI Social Media Conference June 18-20, 2009 (Univ of Colorado Law School)

Posted on May 09, 2009
The 19th Annual Conference on Law School Computing will be held at the University of Colorado Law School on June 18-20, 2009. Registration here. There will be an interesting workshop on Social Media Best Practices, discussed here which readers may...

Researching International Law

Posted on May 09, 2009
Twice a month the attorney-editor of ASIL?s International Legal Materials publishes an electronic resource entitled International Law in Brief, which is a collection of analytical abstracts of and links to significant primary documents related to the latest developments in international...

Possible Changes To Employee Free Choice Act

Posted on May 08, 2009
We have been extensively covering the Employee Free Choice Act. Readers will recall there are three basic parts to it: 1. Allowing for card check elections where a majority of workers sign cards; 2. Providing for interest arbitration of first...

Paid FMLA Leave Amendment Introduced Into Congress

Posted on May 08, 2009
H.R. 1723 was recently introduced into Congress which would significantly amend the FMLA. The two major changes to the current system are that it establishes an insurance fund as part of the Department of Labor which provides for paid sick...

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