Big-ticket state and federal trial, appellate and Supreme Court litigation focused on business challenges to agency rules and regulations
By Law Journal Editorial Board | September 15, 2017
Since the recent disturbances in Charlottesville, the question has arisen whether a private employer can lawfully fire an at will employee who took part in the neo-Nazi demonstration or other white supremacist activity that the employer finds offensive or embarrassing.
1 minute read
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | September 15, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has denied a Florida couple's request to rehear a case that deeply divided the judges over what constitutes a legal police search.
1 minute read
By MICHAEL MARCIANO | September 14, 2017
A 1940s Connecticut "Crime of the Century" courtroom drama, written by Connecticut attorney Michael Koskoff and exploring the rich personality of a young Thurgood Marshall, hits big screens nationwide next month.
1 minute read
By Barry Black and John B. Madden explore "Corporation of Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos," where the court upheld the validity of a statutory exception to the prohibition against discrimination on the basis of religion contained in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and further discuss other examples of the law's special treatment of religious institutions and clergy members. | September 13, 2017
Thirty years ago, in Corporation of Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos, 483 U.S. 327 (1987), the U.S. Supreme…
1 minute read
By Michael Booth | September 12, 2017
A state prosecutor asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to reinstate the criminal conviction of a man who added offensive comments to a co-worker's wedding photos and posted them as flyers.
1 minute read
By William M. Pinzler | September 12, 2017
William M. Pinzler discusses "Masterpiece Cakeshop and Jack Phillips v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and Craig and Mullins," a case the Supreme Court has granted certiorari which presents the question of whether applying Colorado's public accommodations law to compel a "cake artist" (a baker) to prepare a cake in honor of a customer's gay wedding violates his "sincerely held religious beliefs" about gay marriage and thus violates the Free Speech or Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment.
1 minute read
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 12, 2017
The district court barred plaintiff's stigma-plus claim under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 for alleged reputational injury against a third party, finding that the actions constituting the stigma and the plus must both be performed by the defendant employer. The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's complaint with prejudice.
1 minute read
By Marcia Coyle | September 7, 2017
The Trump administration delivered a new blow to the gay and lesbian community on Thursday when the U.S. Justice Department sided against a same-sex couple in a major discrimination case at the U.S. Supreme Court. The Justice Department filed a brief backing a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple. "Weddings are sacred rites in the religious realm and profoundly symbolic ceremonies in the secular one," Jeffrey Wall, the acting U.S. solicitor general, wrote in the amicus brief.
1 minute read
By Josefa Velasquez and B. Colby Hamilton | September 6, 2017
New York's AG and 15 other states and D.C. filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York alleging the Trump administration's undoing of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive action violates constitutional protections.
1 minute read
By Kristen Rasmussen | September 6, 2017
Two top pharmaceutical trade groups have asked a federal judge to block a Nevada law requiring certain diabetes drugmakers to disclose information to the state about the cost of making and marketing the medications.
1 minute read
Presented by BigVoodoo
The Daily Report is honoring those attorneys and judges who have made a remarkable difference in the legal profession.
Consulting Magazine identifies consultants that have the biggest impact on their clients, firms and the profession.
The National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers recognizes U.S.-based law firms performing exemplary work on behalf of plaintiffs.
Widener University is currently seeking an Assistant Dean for Career Development at the Delaware Law School. Reporting to the Dean of the L...
June-August 2024 Environmental and Land Use - Associate Attorney (1-3 years) Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo is acc...
Our client, a highly regarded boutique firm with a strong real estate practice, is seeking an associate with 3 or more years of experience i...
