Labor & Employment Law

Argument recap: Mootness could squelch union fees case
Knox v. SEIU, argued Tuesday morning, arose because a union representing state employees imposed a mid-year dues increase which was payable by union members and non-members alike. In June 2005, the union sent its annual “Hudson notice” (required by the Supreme Court?s decision in Chicago Teachers Union v...

SCOTUS Says No to SG Request for Argument in Union Dues Case
Tony Mauro on the Blog of the Legal Times reports that the Supreme Court has denied the Solicitor General's request to present argument in Locke v. Karass, a case in which deals with whether the fees paid by non-union members...

Argument recap: The constitutionality of zombie copyrights
The following argument recap of Golan v. Holder  is written by Rebecca Tushnet,  a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. – I should first say that I don?t believe that oral argument makes much difference in the average case...

Argument Recap: Sprint & AT&T v. APCC
The following argument recap is by Tobias Zimmerman, an associate at Akin Gump in Washington, DC. Tobias participated in the case in the lower courts, and Akin Gump also served as co-counsel to the Petitioners in this case...

Argument Recap: MetLife v. Glenn
The MetLife v. Glenn (06-923) wiki page has been updated to include Stanford student Barbara Thomas’s recap of oral argument. MetLife was the first case argued yesterday.

Argument recap: Court hears arguments on ineffective assistance and habeas corpus.
John P. Elwood and Douglas D. Geyser of Vinson & Elkins LLP recap Tuesday's oral argument in Harrington v. Richter.

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Gay Marriage Laws
Where same sex couples can marry

Discouraging Union Organizers
Strict work place rules

Cell Phone Early Termination Fees
How to recover billing errors

Excessive Bank Overdraft Fees
Bank Overdraft Fees alleging excessive fees and misrepresentation of account balances and more.

Employment
Employee rights including labor law, harassment, safety, unpaid overtime, discrimination and union disputes.

Railroad Worker Leukemia
Union Pacific pays settlement to former manager exposed to carcinogenic chemicals.

Westinghouse
alleging that former Westinghouse employees are being deprived of a choice in health care prescription plan benefits that were formerly available to them through union bargaining.

Countrywide Financial Corp.
allegedly charged borrowers improper foreclosure fees.

Clearwire Service
alleging poor quality and unfairly charging early termination fees.