Vice President Kamala Harris claimed the mantle of a civil rights champion as part of her presidential campaign origin fable. But her record tells a darker tale. At every step of her career, Harris has proven that the most dangerous place for a constitutional norm to be is standing between Harris and her political ambitions.
A Florida state court judge has awarded the operators of a pet store nearly $53,000 in attorney fees defending against a lawsuit over sexual harassment and gender discrimination after a manager allegedly showed a video of his genitalia to an underage female employee while on the job.
A Santa Clara County jury has awarded $1 million and tuition reimbursement to two former students who sued an elite Catholic high school in Mountain View, saying administrators forced them out over an alleged blackface photo that actually showed teens masked in acne medication.
Businesses have been navigating through a continuously altering and evolving employee benefits landscape. Work-from-home and hybrid office trends, new technological advancements and workforce shortages in many industries have led to a new set of expectations, protocols and best practices when it comes to businesses determining the right benefits packages for their employees.
In the evolving landscape of employment law in California, the case of Elinton Gramajo v. Joe’s Pizza on Sunset Inc. et al. emerges as a significant development with wide-ranging implications for both employers and employees.
Last month, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill titled “Thirty-Two Hour Work Week Act” to the U.S. Senate, which would reduce the full-time workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours.
As the modern marketplace of ideas, Big Tech platforms are ground zero for government-coerced suppression of political speech.
This is why fair and free elections will be in danger if the Supreme Court does not immediately put a stop to self-interested government bureaucrats pressuring social media platforms to censor Americans’ speech online.
The long legal battle between Applied Medical Distribution Corporation and its former employee, Stephen Jarrells, highlights the intricacies of trade secrets law, providing valuable lessons for businesses and their attorneys.
The family of a student at Muirlands Middle School in La Jolla has filed a lawsuit against employees of the San Diego Unified School District following his suspension for wearing “offensive” face paint at a football game.
A student was confronted by a teacher at Muirlands Middle School after filing a lawsuit for being wrongly suspended for wearing “blackface.”
Ohio legislators have one last chance to protect children from “gender-affirming care.” They must not be fooled by Gov. Mike DeWine’s diluted executive order that bans gender transition surgeries but does nothing to stop the chemical castration of vulnerable children or protect equal opportunities for girls in athletics.
As a young law student back in in 1987, I read an article about "human rights violations" being perpetrated by Israel in the National Law Review. Never a shrinking violet, I dashed off a letter to the editor in protest. A couple of days after it was printed, two letters arrived in my law school mailbox, both of them antisemitic and threatening. I was a bit spooked, so I called the Chicago office of the Anti-Defamation League.
The majority’s creative interpretation of the line between fact and opinion creates a slippery slope that will undoubtedly be used by defendants to obscure the protected opinion doctrine in their favor.
In the coming weeks, Texas will witness the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton — an event that has captured public attention and raised serious concerns about the integrity of the House proceedings, compared to something worse than a kangaroo court. As the trial rules develop with a June 20 deadline in the Senate, it is vital to prioritize fairness and due process.
A Los Angeles employment lawyer facing ethics charges over tweets she made in May 2020 during Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd said the California state bar's disciplinary action against her must be dropped because the "enshrined" free speech rights of Golden State attorneys "depend on it."
The EDD is accusing some pandemic-era claimants of fraud and demanding repayment, years after their applications were approved. In some cases, current wages are being garnished to claw back the unemployment money, even before appeals are filed.
The YouTube personality "Nate the Lawyer" fought to preserve his defamation case against a New Jersey-based social media watchdog in a motion on Monday, arguing that he is the victim of online smearing and maintaining that his suit has met the pleading requirements for defamation.
Tampa, Fla. –– The Dhillon Law Group (@dhillonlaw) obtained a multi-million-dollar judgment for its client, Michael Reiterman, in a high-profile cyberstalking and defamation lawsuit.
Like a homeowner who sees evidence of termites on the windowsill, the RNC has finally woken up to the election integrity crisis, years after Democrats systematically began hollowing out safeguards ensuring that our elections be limited to legal voters only.
The election for RNC Chairman on January 27 will be a referendum on two of the Republican Party’s foundational ideals: personal responsibility and accountability. After six years of losses and increasingly alienated voting and donor bases demanding change, our party needs fresh leadership, new vision, and fundamental changes to fulfill our promise to stakeholders.
I can hear the libertarian rejoinder. Banning vaccine mandates is coercion. But the law is full of restraints and protections. Employers cannot make hiring decisions based on race, sex, sexual preferences, disability status, and an ever-growing list of protected classes. And there is no serious call in the conservative movement to end employment discrimination laws.
That's why experts are skeptical of the new law. John-Paul Deol, Partner and Head of Employment Law at Dhillon Law Group Inc., is one of them. He thinks California workers already have plenty of protections under existing state and federal wage-and-hours laws. Thus, it's hard to see what the new law does to improve the situation.
"It is very unclear what benefit this new law adds to existing law, except to increase costs and bureaucracy," he told International Business Times in an email.
Instead, he sees the new law hurting the Golden State's businesses, especially the fast-food restaurant industry, where he thinks the $22/hour wage will force companies to leave the state or hike prices. "If businesses do not leave the state, you can bet that they will pass the high labor costs onto consumers, worsening the harm already done by inflation."
In a statement to Law360 on Thursday, the pilots' counsel John-Paul S. Deol said the union "shirked its fundamental responsibility" to represent its members.
"In the face of an unfair labor practice, the union did nothing, allowing our 10 pilots to lose their jobs and livelihoods simply because of their beliefs," Deol said. "We believe the court will ultimately agree with us that the union breached its duty in failing to protect these longtime, dedicated members.
"Representatives for the union and United did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A trademark dispute between Vans Inc. and a Brooklyn-based art studio is set to rekindle a debate about how courts should properly balance free speech and trademark law
The time has come for employers to stop mandating COVID vaccines and boosters for their employees as a condition of employment.
Twitter is preparing for the midterm elections. Per reports, Twitter will now "label and demote misinformation about the upcoming US elections."
What could go wrong?
The once-revered FBI has fallen on hard times. One might pinpoint the decline beginning as far back as former Director J. Edgar Hoover’s partisan machinations during the McCarthyism years. Yet in the last several years, the bureau’s reputational hits have piled higher and higher.
The First Amendment and the New State Censorship: Project Veritas Panel at Freedom Fest 2022
Two El Monte police officers in Los Angeles County, Michael Paredes and Joseph Santana, were murdered in cold blood earlier this week by a gang member who should have been behind bars but instead was free to kill thanks to the so-called progressive criminal-justice polices in vogue in America’s cities, courtesy of woke legislators and prosecutors.
Five justices of the Supreme Court reputed to be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey are under attack—as is the very institution itself—after a saboteur (odds are on an activist law clerk who disagrees with the majority’s decision) leaked a draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to Politico.
On day two of her confirmation hearings, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson – Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court – remains as evasive as ever on her concerning legal record of leniency toward pedophiles and her views on critical race theory.
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