Archive for February, 2004

Some experts agreeing with my assessment of the General Dynamics age case

Friday, February 27th, 2004

The ABA Journal e-report today has this by David L. Hudson Jr: “High court narrows age bias suits; Workers 40 and Older Can’t Sue Other Older Employees, Justices Say”

Cleveland attorney Mark Biggerman, who argued the case for the employees, [said]: “The court disregarded the plain meaning of the statute, the one relevant piece of [...]

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Off-topic post on gay marriage

Friday, February 27th, 2004

More lunchtime reading in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch op-eds: “Who’s really driving the wedge?” by Charles Krauthammer, says precisely what I’ve been thinking: that we are about to repeat the mistake of Roe v. Wade.

No, I don’t think that mistake was legalizing abortion (nor am I strongly opposed to gay marriage). I think the [...]

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Thomas Friedman on outsourcing/offshoring to India

Friday, February 27th, 2004

I’ve been collecting a number of articles on this topic, currently perhaps the top hot button employment-related topic. I still will post on the others (one of these days), but today’s lunchtime reading in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch op-ed page has this excellent one by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman: “What goes around [...]

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Grocery strike appears over, finally

Friday, February 27th, 2004

CNN.Money (Reuters) reports: “Supermarket strike settled; Deal ends strike of nearly five months by 60,000 grocery workers at about 900 California stores.”

Deal is tentative, subject to ratification. A vote could occur Friday or Saturday; interviewed employees are cautious in commenting until they see details. “Strikes and lockouts are always a battle of last resort. The [...]

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I’ve been prepping for an exciting seminar on electronic evidence

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

This has been a very low-billable-hours week as I’ve been diligently preparing my materials for an upcoming seminar Friday, March 12, 2004 at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

The seminar is entitled Electronic Evidence Discovery Seminar; “Recovering the Digital Smoking Gun.” Here’s the agenda.

I’m speaking last, on “Spy vs. Spy: Applying Electronic Discovery, Computer [...]

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