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Labor and Employment Law
Wondering whether the Supreme Court has changed course in movement toward immunization of state governments from federal employment laws, employment lawyers are reviewing the Supreme Court's May 27 decision in Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs. By a 6-3 vote, the Court affirmed a Ninth Circuit ruling that the...
Tags: Leadership, U.S. Supreme Court, American Bar Association, Management, Regulations, Government
White papers 2003-07-07
Supreme Court Rules State Workers Have Right to FMLA Leave
In a surprising turn, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on May 27 that states are not immune from employee lawsuits for violating their rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act FMLA (Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, No. 01-1368 (5/27/03)). The 6-3 ruling rejecting state immunity from FMLA...
Tags: Regulations, Government, Worker, U.S. Supreme Court, Family And Medical Leave Act
White papers 2003-06-07
Supreme Court and the FMLA -- Take Two
The article says that before you approve or deny another leave request, check this all-in-one handbook that explains how to comply with every major federal and state law affecting employee leave. This invaluable tool will help you develop a solid understanding of the legal obligations related to leave and navigate...
Tags: Family And Medical Leave Act, Article, HR Web Centre, U.S. Supreme Court, Regulations, Productivity, Government
White papers 2002-07-17
Changing Course - US Supreme Court Rules in Takings Case
In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a number of important decisions favoring property owners in zoning and other land use battles with local governments. The Court's ruling would seem to allow government to do by regulation what it cannot do through eminent domain i.e., freeze the use...
Tags: Enterprise Software, Software, Vertical Industries, Government, Court, U.S. Supreme Court
White papers 2002-05-22
Supreme Court Bars Insurer's ERISA Suit for Damages
The paper deduces that in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed a vexing day-to-day problem in ERISA health care plan administration: whether a plan's reimbursement right can be enforced under ERISA when plan benefits have been paid to a participant or beneficiary who obtains a third party recovery....
Tags: Government, Regulations, Bender, U.S. Supreme Court, Health Care, Article, Reimbursement, ERISA
White papers 2002-02-01
Zoning and Land Use Planning Law - Permit Denials and Substantive Due Process
Article deduces that the Supreme Court can disentangle the complexities that the circuits have woven in the area of substantive due process. The "property" issue is resolved in favor of a plaintiff, the second prong should be easier to satisfy than the Natale-type test. In other words, the violation should...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Article
White papers 2000-06-20

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Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, top McCain advisers, proposed legislation to counter the worst excesses of the Supreme Court's Boumediene ruling, which gave enemy combatants a constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, top McCain advisers, proposed legislation to counter the worst excesses of the Supreme Court's Boumediene ruling, which gave enemy combatants a constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court. Responding to attorney general Michael Mukasey's plea for congressional intervention, the bill would reaffirm...
Articles 2008-09-01
California justices back Falun Gong ban
SAN FRANCISCO AP -- Members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement won't be allowed to participate in San Francisco's Chinese New Year parade and street fair. The state Supreme Court last week rejected the group's challenge to the parade sponsor's decision to exclude them from the annual festival. ...
Articles 2008-08-30
Court upholds ruling against council member's Jesus-specific prayers
In a decision hailed by supporters as a victory for the separation of church and state, a federal appeals court upheld a Fredericksburg, Virginia, policy that restricts praying "in Jesus' name" at city council meetings. City council member Hashmel Turner, who is a part-time Baptist minister, claimed that...
Articles 2008-08-26
Commentary: A look at the 'Boumediene v. Bush' decision
On June 12, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the detainees at Guantanamo Bay are entitled to the Constitutional right of habeas corpus -- the right to challenge the legality of their detention. This historic ruling allows the detainees at Guantanamo to challenge...
Articles 2008-08-25
Guantanamo case subject of Monroe County Bar Assn. CLE today
To what degree does the government have a right to hold prisoners oversees indefinitely and without criminal charge in the name of national security? To what extent do foreign prisoners, such as those held at Guantanamo Bay, have a right to challenge their imprisonment via federal courts? What form, exactly,...
Articles 2008-08-20
8th Circuit reverses its lengthened sentence
The U.S. Supreme Court declared in June that a federal appeals court may not order a defendant's sentence to be increased without an appeal or cross appeal from the government. Dutifully, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday changed its own judgment and affirmed the...
Articles 2008-08-15
8th Circuit reverses its lengthened sentence
The U.S. Supreme Court declared in June that a federal appeals court may not order a defendant's sentence to be increased without an appeal or cross appeal from the government. Dutifully, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday changed its own judgment and affirmed the...
Articles 2008-08-15
In virtual town hall, McCain fields Pa. queries
Near the end of a virtual town-hall meeting last night with suburban Philadelphia voters, conducted by telephone, Republican presidential candidate John McCain got a question that went right to the heart of the matter. A woman who identified herself as Sally from Mortonville, Chester County, said she had once favored...
Articles 2008-08-06
The Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham to Receive American Inns of Court's Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Award for Professionalism and Ethics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- One of the country's most respected jurists, The Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, has been selected to receive the prestigious American Inns of Court's 2008 Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Award for Professionalism and Ethics. The award...
Articles 2008-08-01
Miracles & sacrilege; Roberto Rossellini, the church, and film censorship in Hollywood
Miracles & sacrilege; Roberto Rossellini, the church, and film censorship in Hollywood. Johnson, William Bruce. U. of Toronto Press 2008 516 pages $35.00 Paperback BX1407 Johnson (University of London, UK) recounts the controversy surrounding...
Articles 2008-08-01
Judicial Watch Petitions Supreme Court to Hear RICO Lawsuit Against Businesses That Hire Illegal Alien Criminals
Judicial Watch, the public interest groupthat investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced todaythat it has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to hear aRacketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act RICO lawsuit filed byCanyon County, Idaho against four large employers of illegal aliens (CanyonCounty v. Syngenta Seeds, Inc., et...
Articles 2008-07-31
Supreme Court decision on Guantanamo detainees
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court, on June 12, struck down major portions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 MCA, which created military tribunals to hear the cases of suspected terrorists detained by the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Bush and...
Articles 2008-07-21
Wave of the future
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism without Terrorizing Ourselves, by Michael A. Sheehan (Crown, 320 pp., $24.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror, by Benjamin Wittes (Penguin, 320...
Articles 2008-07-14
8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says Social Security claimants
Social Security claimants do not have a constitutional right to subpoena or cross-examine the doctors consulted by administrative law judges in disability hearings, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. Wednesday's decision, by a unanimous panel, rejects dicta in an 18-year-old 8th...
Articles 2008-07-10
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