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Supreme Court age discrimination decision: right result, wrong reasoning
Yesterday, the Supreme court decided General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. v. Cline, holding that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) [link to statutory text] does not prohibit age discrimination against younger employees (preferences for older employees), even between employees within the protected 40-or-over age group.
For quickie news story on the case, [...]
Judge expects attorneys to write well if they want top dollar
Law.com has this article by Shannon P. Duffy from The Legal Intelligencer: “Judge Slashes Lawyer’s Rate for Typos, Careless Writing”
Finding that a Philadelphia attorney’s courtroom work was “smooth” and “artful” in winning a $430,000 verdict in a civil rights suit, but his written work was “careless” and full of typos, a federal magistrate judge ruled [...]
Grocery strike news
Reuters reports: “Union, Grocers Contract Talks Continue”
Union and supermarket company officials met for their 10th straight day of contract talks on Friday to hammer out a settlement to end a five-month-long Southern California labor dispute . . . .
The latest discussions began on Feb. 11 following a failure of numerous other attempts to resolve [...]
Latest jobless claims report
Findlaw (Reuters) reports: “Jobless Claims Drop on Better Weather”
First-time unemployment claims dropped 24,000 to 344,000 last week, from a revised 368,000 the previous week.
The four-week moving average, “seen as a more reliable gauge of the pace of layoffs because it smoothes short-term swings,” was up slightly to 352,000 from 351,750.
Weather — bad the previous [...]
Blogging solo writes about blogs
Law.com carries this story by Carolyn Elefant from Legal Times: “It’s a Blog World After All”
Carolyn is the author of the My Shingle blawg for solos, which I highly recommend, even for non-solos. One tidbit from her article that struck a chord was:
[O]nce a blog starts attracting an audience — and it [...]
