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Legal Issues: Legal Issues
12/20/2011 - The New Jersey Supreme Court has handed down a list of new rules regarding the admission of eyewitness testimony in court. Read the full ruling online.
The Workplace: Legal Issues
12/20/2011 - An assistant manager’s refusal to return the calls of an employee out on medical leave is sufficient to support a case of retaliation under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In the case, an employee out on FMLA leave put in weekly calls to her assistant manager to provide an update. The manager never returned the calls and the employee was fired for not returning to work as agreed. The district court found that the failure to return calls indicated an “antagonistic attitude.”
Intelligence: Legal Issues
12/20/2011 - A major court ruling could change the way eyewitness testimony is viewed in court, and Chicago releases years of criminal data.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
12/20/2011 - A court rules that police officers acted unreasonably in using Tasers but they were protected under the law as it stood at the time of the incident.
Daily Headline : Legal Issues
12/20/2011 - A New Jersey appellate court ruled on Monday that law enforcement officers can keep their surveillance locations a secret.
Daily Headline : Legal Issues
12/14/2011 - Employees would report wrongdoing in the workplace if they could be protected from retaliation and claim a monetary reward, according to a recent survey, yet most people don't know about a government program that does just that.
Daily Headline : Legal Issues
12/02/2011 - The CIA says it's legal to kill an American citizen abroad if they are fighting alongside the enemy. The Canadian Human Rights Commission wants security organizations to monitor and disclose their human rights performance. The final findings of the 2010 National Retail Security Survey published. And more.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
11/19/2011 - The Washington Supreme Court has ruled that its medical marijuana law does not apply to private employers and does not protect employees from being fired for drug use. And OSHA issues a new directive on workplace violence.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
10/24/2011 - A jury holds a property owner liable for negligent security and orders it to pay a rape victim $1.2 million, and lawmakers consider legislation on government contractors, online privacy, and homeland security.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
09/29/2011 - A police officer is guilty of gross negligence after shooting an unarmed man. The officer, who claimed that he intended to draw his Taser, violated the law when he neglected to verify that he had mistakenly drawn his gun, according to a federal appeals court. The officer’s actions, ruled the court, were objectively unreasonable.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
09/29/2011 - A police officer is guilty of gross negligence after shooting an unarmed man who was being arrested for failure to pay child support. And a federal appeals court has ruled that DHS should have solicited public comments via the rulemaking process before it deployed body scanners at airports.
Daily Headline : Legal Issues
09/27/2011 - NSA is developing secure smartphones. A hacker wants the courts to force the FBI to reveal the details of Stingray location-detecting technology. The Guardian uses uniform crime report data to make an interactive map. And more.
Daily Headline : Legal Issues
09/06/2011 - A jury will decide if a laptop-locating company went too far to recover a stolen laptop.
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