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Daily Headline : Legal Issues
02/23/2009 - Federal authorities last week arrested and charged four animal rights activists under a never before used federal law which protects industries and individuals that use animals in their work.
Daily Headline : Legal Issues
02/19/2009 - Fiery Islamist preacher Abu Qatada has experienced the highs and lows of competing European legal systems over the last day when the United Kingdom's Law Lords ruled he could be deported to Jordan while the European Court of Human Rights ruled he should receive £2500 for his illegal detention without trial after the events of 9-11.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
01/27/2009 - A theological seminary is not guilty of subjecting two female students to a hostile work environment, according to the Supreme Court of New Jersey. The students claimed that the school failed to reign in a 60-year-old seminary resident who romantically pursued the two women. The resident asked the students out for dates but did not touch them or make inappropriate comments.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
01/27/2009 - A man, Alshafi Tate, who was fired after ending a consensual sexual relationship with his boss cannot sue for retaliation stemming from sexual harassment, according to a federal appeals court. The retaliation claim is invalid, ruled the court, because Tate did not believe he was being sexually harassed.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
01/26/2009 - A man who was fired after ending a consensual sexual relationship with his boss cannot sue for retaliation stemming from sexual harassment, according to a federal appeals court.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
12/18/2008 - A property management company is not liable for the death of a man who was shot and killed in a mall parking lot. The Texas Supreme Court ruled the event was not foreseeable and that the company had no duty to protect the man.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
12/18/2008 - An employee who was fired for illegally taping private conversations between her supervisors cannot pursue a retaliation claim against her employer, ruled a federal appeals court. The employee taped the conversations to learn more about a sexual harassment claim she had filed.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
12/18/2008 - Companies face greater liability in sexual harassment cases if a supervisor harasses an employee, according to a recent ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
12/18/2008 - Violating standard accounting practices is insufficient to invoke whistleblower protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a federal appeals court ruled. The plaintiff in the case was fired after complaining about unorthodox accounting practices at his company.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
10/28/2008 - An employee attacked in a parking lot cannot hold the lot owner liable for failing to protect him from an unforeseen attack, according to the California Court of Appeal. (Ericson v. Federal Express, California Court of Appeal, No. D049934, 2008)
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
10/28/2008 - A police officer who was harassed by his coworkers after he contracted hepatitis C may sue his employer for creating a hostile work environment, ruled an appellate court.
Intelligence: Legal Issues
09/29/2008 - The National Institute of Justice is conducting studies to ascertain whether stun guns are safe for police and other security personnel to use.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
09/23/2008 - In some cases, a company has a duty to accommodate an employee’s disability even if that employee did not request accommodation, according to an appeals court.
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