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Beyond Print: Legal Issues
12/23/2010 - A federal appeals court has ruled that a company’s unwritten policy denying employment to all of their job applicants with theft-related convictions was sufficient to thwart a racial discrimination lawsuit. The court ruled that the woman who claimed she was not hired because of her race could not pursue her lawsuit because her theft convictions would have disqualified her.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
12/23/2010 -
A company that transferred a pregnant welder out of her job and onto light duty without first determining whether she was unable to continue in her welding position may be guilty of discrimination. A federal appeals court has ruled that the employee may pursue her lawsuit against her employer.
Daily Headline : Legal Issues
12/08/2010 - Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could broaden the scope of federal antidiscrimination laws as they relate to retaliation in the workplace.
Daily Headline : Legal Issues
11/08/2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether government employees may sue their employers for violation of the First Amendment when the speech in question is a matter of private, rather than public, concern.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
10/26/2010 - Police may not use a global positioning satellite (GPS) unit to track a person’s movements for a long period of time without a warrant, because doing so violates a person’s Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
10/26/2010 - A federal court has upheld a preliminary injunction preventing a senior employee from going to work for a competitor. The employee, who was one of seven employees possessing all the knowledge to create Thomas’ English Muffins, was hired by a competitor, Hostess Brands. The court ruled that the harm presented by the potential for trade secret misappropriation outweighed the restriction of the individual’s employment.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
10/26/2010 - A black nursing assistant can pursue a hostile work environment lawsuit against her employer. The hostile environment was allegedly created when the employer acceded to the preferences of racially biased patients who refused to be treated by black nurses.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
10/26/2010 - New York City has been ordered by a federal judge to stop using its entry-level firefighter examination. The test, which includes 195 multiple-choice questions that measure cognitive ability, personal traits, and memorization, does not measure whether applicants are qualified to be firefighters, according to the judge. And it disproportionately excludes black and Hispanic applicants.
Daily Headline : Legal Issues
10/20/2010 - A suburban Philadelphia school district has agreed to pay $610,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by students who claimed that district employees spied on the students using two-way Webcams that were incorporated into school-issued laptops.(Corrected)
Legal Report: Legal Issues
09/30/2010 - A federal court has ruled that an employee who failed to disclose his diagnosis of depression cannot later make a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act. According to the case, the employee alleging that he was “stressed” and “anxious” did not constitute a formal request for accommodation of a disability.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
09/30/2010 - A woman may pursue a lawsuit against her employer after a company executive falsely accused her of illegally pulling a fire alarm. The woman was arrested and charged in the incident. According to a federal court, the woman may pursue her allegations of defamation, invasion of privacy, negligent intention of emotional distress, and false imprisonment.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
09/30/2010 - A court has ruled that a woman may pursue her hostile work environment claim even though the gender-based slurs at the root of the case were not made exclusively to one gender. The appeals court overturned a lower court’s ruling that the comments made by the abuser were not pervasive enough and that they didn’t create a hostile environment because his abuse was indiscriminate.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
09/30/2010 - The employee of a federal correctional institution may pursue his lawsuit against the facility after he was fired for refusing to submit to a search of his vehicle. The question of whether inmates could access employees’ parked cars and potentially plant contraband cast doubt on the constitutionality of the search, said the court in its decision, available online.
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