Casual Friday Report: Employment Mandatory Arbitration & Employee Marijuana Use
Myriad of mandatory pre-dispute employment arbitration happenings across the nation… Here in California the state courts continue to hue to the provisions... Read More
Doomsday Report for March 28, 2019: SCOTUS hearing in Kisor: Conservative Courts Poised to Occupy the Regulatory Field.
On March 27, 2019 SCOTUS held oral argument in the case of Kisor v. Wilke, involving a benefits determination by the Department... Read More
Doomsday Report: More Bad News & Bad Actors
Doomsday Report: More Bad News & Bad Actors Still feels awkward to post a blog, kind of like a descriptive doomsday clock... Read More
“Pall” Over Current Events; Trumpian FLRA & NLRB Developments; Sanders Campaign Recognizes Staff Union In Historic First; GM/UAW Plant Closure Litigation; Green Jobs Challenge
General “Pall” Over Current Events… Orwellian world and local events have rendered me “silent” for some time (since prior to the New... Read More
FIVE-ALARM FIRE AND BLACK ARMBANDS FOR SCOTUS
Well, based on three more 5-4 decisions issued this week and Justice Kennedy’s retirement announcement, the courthouse is burning out of control... Read More
INEQUALITY & UNFREEDOM/Gorsuch’s Epic Systems and the Trump Epoch: Denial of Socio-Economic Reality and History & Refusal to Recognize the “Concerted Action” “Elephant in the Room”
SCOTUS Ignoring Reality in Lochnerian Revival Even Gorsuch’s[1] “statement of the issue” is fictive, having installed as false premise that the basic... Read More
Church Abuse of “Ministerial Exception”: “Good For The Goose”
A. Introduction Recently I have “vented” with other attorneys who have shared the experience of representing former parochial school teachers and administrators... Read More
REINHARDT WRITINGS RING TRUE
As we mourn the passing of the Ninth Circuit’s “liberal lion,” Judge Stephen Reinhardt, we should celebrate one of his last writings,... Read More
Saheli, EFASHA & “Unexpected Consequences”?
On March 14, 2018 in Saheli v. White Memorial Medical Center, 2018 DJ DAR 2413, the California Court of Appeal held that... Read More
The Bogus Jurisprudence of This Supreme Court Majority: A Look at Encino Motorcars v. Navarro
On April 3, 2018 the Supreme Court issued decision, rendered by Thomas, with, of course, the three lady justices and Justice Breyer... Read More