Legal Research

Secunda on Public Employee Blogging
Paul M. Secunda (Marquette University - Law School) has posted Blogging While (Publicly) Employed: Some First Amendment Implications (University of Louisville Law Review, Vol. 47, No...

Public Sector Blogging
Paul M. Secunda, Marquette University Law School, has published "Blogging While (Publicly) Employed: Some First Amendment Implications," in volume 47 of the University of Louisville Law Review (2009)...

Secunda on "Dooced" Employees
Our own Paul Secunda (Marquette) has just posted on SSRN an article of particular interest to those of us he left behind, Blogging While (Publicly) Employed: Some First Amendment Implications...

Secunda on Garcetti for Federal Employees
Paul Secunda (Mississippi for a few more days, then to Marquette) has just posted on SSRN his article (forthcoming First Amendment L. Rev.), Garcetti's Impact on the First Amendment Speech Rights of Federal Employees...

Secunda on Whistleblower Claims in the Federal Courts
Today's National Law Journal quotes our own Paul Secunda on the difficulty federal employees face in pursuing First Amendment claims in federal court: [I]f federal employees seek protection for exercising their First Amendment rights by filing so-called Pickering claims in...

Secunda On Retaliation Against Medical Benefits Claims
Our own Paul Secunda was recently quoted in the Chicago Tribune on a disturbing case in which it is alleged that an employee was terminated to avoid the medical claims made on behalf of her terminally ill husband...

Employee Lawsuits (An Introduction and Topic Overview)
How employers can cope with the siege of employee lawsuits

Parody is a Protected Form of Speech
Targets of criticism seek to shut down Internet sites that poke fun

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

Clopidogrel Marketed as Plavix FDA Issues Public Health Advisory
Clopidogrel Marketed as Plavix FDA Issues Public Health Advisory

Nursing Home Abuse
New Data Made Public

The Princeton Reivew
Personal Data Made Public on Tens of Thousands of Florida Students

Public Safety Radio
M/A-COM Inc. to pay $4 million settlement in overcharging lawsuit.

Utilities Whistleblower
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities agrees to $485,000 fine for setting up a private bank account.

Consulting Contract
Racine Unified School District agrees to pay Public Business Consulting Group a $750,000 settlement.