The late professor Joseph Sax once wrote about California that “they don’t do groundwater,” referring to the absence of a statewide scheme for the permitting and regulation of groundwater. It is true that there is no centralized state regulatory...
Lawyers throughout Pakistan boycotted the nation's courts Friday to protest the slaying earlier this week of a human rights attorney who continued to represent an academic in a controversial blasphemy case despite death threats reportedly made in open court last…
Principal Rudolph Telscher secured a victory before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the petitioner in Octane Fitness v. Icon Health and Fitness (No. 12-1184). On April 29, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Octane Fitness in determining the...
Manufacturing Company Fired Engineer for Filing Religious and Disability Discrimination Charge, Federal Agency Says - NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Turner Machine Company retaliated against an employee by firing him because he filed a discrimination charge,...
People need a vision to inspire them. I know this sounds corny but I always used this motto as a motivational tool. If you can see the goal, then you can figure out a way (or ways) to achieve the goal. If you conduct a set of tasks that are not...
Our nation is officially recognizing Mother's Day for the 100th time this year, and it has been a long and interesting century. Why do we celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May? And who came up with this idea anyway?Check out our legal timeline of how Mother's Day......
I came across a great blog this week by Jim Nortz, a compliance and ethics consultant and educator, titled Business Ethics: 3 Questions Every Business Leader Must Ask. If you follow my blogs, you won’t be surprised that I loved this – it was right up...
In Stiller v. Costco Wholesale Corp., No. 3:09-cv-2473-GPC-BGS, Plaintiffs Eric Stiller and Joseph Moro alleged that Costco’s loss-prevention closing procedures effectively “forced” employees to work off-the clock without getting paid because they...
Thanks to recent advances in cloning technology, treating degenerative diseases with replacement tissue that matches a patient’s genetic makeup exactly is no longer science fiction. Just last month, for example, two research groups reported...
Under Dodd-Frank, the CFPB supervises depository institutions and credit unions with total assets of more than $10 billion, as well as certain nonbanks, regardless of size, including mortgage companies, originators, brokers, and servicers....
