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The Distressing State of Muslim Employment Discrimination in the United States
Cross-posted on Workplace Prof Blog: These numbers from a recent article by Adam Liptak in the New York Times could be construed to suggest that Muslims in the United States are being targeted by...
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Justice Redux: The Impact of the Same Justice Writing on the Same Issue Years...
Today, a very important ERISA remedies case was handed down by the Supreme Court in LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg, and Assocs. The Court held, “that although §502(a)(2) does not provide a remedy for...
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Blogging to Be a Lateral
As much as I want to chime in on the Battlestar Galactica interview that the CO guys scored, it is hard for me to stay too long away from lateral market issues. So consider this the lost “Part 11″ of...
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Pornography and Public Employment: Further Implications of Garcetti
Having just returned from speaking at a great conference hosted by the First Amendment Law Review at UNC on all things Garcetti, it is interesting to see many of the various issues discussed there come...
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The Green Bag Asks: Your Law School (Really) Got Game?
This year, my last, at Ole Miss Law School, I was asked to Chair an ad hoc faculty committee on law school rankings. Like many law schools, ours has been flustered by the seemingly arbitrary way that...
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Labor Law: Not Dead Yet
[modified from a similar, more technical post at Workplace Prof Blog] “Bring out your dead.” Monty Python’s Holy Grail Especially in Labor Law, whose irrelevancy and death its opponents have been...
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The Skidmore Conundrum: Admin Law Wrapped Inside Employment Discrim Law
I’m going Pasquale on ya (the guy is amazingly blog-prolific) and doing two posts in a row today. Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in the case of Federal Express v. Holowecki,...
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Pension Parity Sought by Retired Black Police Officers
[Cross posted on Workplace Prof Blog] To those who believe that the bad ol’ days of segregation and unequal treatment of minorities is behind us, I give you this story from the LA Times about retired...
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Opening the Floodgates of Litigation and Civil Rights Litigation
For employee benefits law geeks like myself, the decision in LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg, and Assocs. was a watershed moment for a Supreme Court that had been reluctant to grant private rights of action...
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Reading Book on Break=Racial Harassment?
[Cross-posted on Workplace Prof Blog] Here is a remarkable story, highlighted by the Freedom for Individual Rights in Education’s (FIRE) The Torch, and brought to my attention by Dennis Nolan (South...
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Does Religious Observance and the Workplace Mix?
[Cross-posted on Workplace Prof Blog] I argue strongly in a recent paper that it is inappropriate for employers to provide workplace chaplains in the workplace for their employees: In addition to...
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The Constitutionality of Pre-Employment Drug Testing for Public Employees
As I wrote today on Workplace Prof Blog, Ross Runkel’s Employment Law Memo brings word that the Ninth Circuit has handed down Lanier v. City of Woodburn, 06-35262 (9th Cir. Mar. 13, 2008) (case link...
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Tales of a Law Professor Lateral Nothing
For those of you like Scott Moss who followed every word, sentence, nay punctuation mark, of my previous series of posts here on the blog on the lateral hiring market, I am pleased to announce that I...
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Failing to Heed the Lessons of Enron
[Cross posted on Workplace Prof Blog] Lost in the business disaster that is Bear Stearns’ acquisition by JP Morgan Chase this past weekend is the plight of Bear Stearns employees after this collapse....
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Is Mississippi on the Verge of a Union Movement?
[Cross-Posted on Workplace Prof Blog] I do not jest. Consider that just last week the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson reported: A vote to unionize the Johnson Controls plant in Madison County was...
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Sadomasochism Sex with Student=Professor Fit to Teach?
[Cross Posted on Workplace Prof Blog] OK, I have seen some pretty crazy stories in my day while blogging in these parts, but this just might take the cake. What makes it even more interesting is that...
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The First-Person Narrative in Legal Scholarship
If Jeff Lipshaw taught me one thing (and really he has only taught me one thing), it is that you never respond to anonymous blog commentators. So don’t consider this a response to the anonymous...
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Tipping Leads to Racial Pay Disparities?
From Freakonomics by Ian Ayres in the New York Times: A few years back, I got interested in taxicab tipping – and what influences how much people tip. So together with Fred Vars and Nasser Zakariya, I...
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Organized Labor’s International Law Project
[Cross posted on Workplace Prof Blog] Matthew Muggeridge of the National Right to Work Foundation has posted in The Federalist Society’s Engage 9.1 magazine: Organized Labor’s International Law...
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Submit Grades or Else at Florida State
[Cross Posted on Workplace Prof Blog] From Inside Higher Ed today: Many professors hate grading, and like most human beings, they often put off what they don’t like. So at many colleges, the end of a...
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