Posted Tuesday September 19, 2006, 12:24 pm, Over one day old
Vicki Limas (Tulsa) was a contributing author to the 2005 edition of Cohen?s Handbook of Federal Indian Law, which came out in Spring 2006. This publication is considered the ?bible? of federal Indian law. The sections Vicki wrote were on...
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Posted Tuesday September 19, 2006, 12:24 pm, Over one day old
David Oppenheimer (Golden Gate) sends word that he has moved from being Academic Dean to Research Dean. In this new capacity, he will be developing a comparative law summer program in Paris. He writes: Our Paris program has provided a...
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Posted Monday September 18, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
Thanks to Lee Feldman for alerting me to Jill Nawrocki's article A Date to Remember in Corporate Counsel:William Sorin became the first corporate legal chief to be criminally charged for suspicious option grants. Sorin was the outside GC of Comverse...
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Posted Monday September 18, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
Thanks to Ross Runkel's Employment Law Memo for bringing this interesting 2nd Circuit case concerning ERISA fiduciary remedies and their intersection with class action requirements to my attention. Rather than reinvent the wheel on this one, here is Ross' summary...
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Posted Monday September 18, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
Donald Bogan (Oklahoma) and Benjamin Fu (student) have published in the Oklahoma Law Review: ERISA: no further inquiry into conflicted plan administrator claim denials, 58 Okla. L. Rev. 637-684 (2005). From the preface of the article:Part II below provides background...
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Posted Monday September 18, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
NewsDash from PlanSponsor.com has the skinny this morning on an interesting FMLA issue of first impression decided by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals concerning bonuses:In what it described as a case of first impression, the 3rd US Circuit Court...
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Posted Monday September 18, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
Article Christopher R. Drahozal, Arbitration Costs and Contingent Fee Contracts, 59 Vand. L. Rev. 729 (2006). Note Nikita Williams, HIV as an Occupational Disease: Expanding Traditional Workers' Compensation Coverage, 59 Vand. L. Rev. 937 (2006). rb...
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Posted Sunday September 17, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
Cynthia L. Estlund, Between Rights and Contract: Arbitration Agreements and Non-Compete Covenants as a Hybrid Form of Employment Law (108). Lawrence D. Rosenthal (photo above), Reasonable Accommodations for Individuals Regarded as Having Disabilities Under the Americans with Disabilities Act? Why...
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Posted Sunday September 17, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
Michael L. Wachter, Labor Unions: A Corporatist Institution in a Competitive World (114). Kirsten Anderson Ian Malcolm Ramsay, From the Picket Line to the Boardroom: Union Shareholder Activsm (60). David J. Doorey, Neutrality Agreements: Bargaining Freedom of Association in the...
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Posted Sunday September 17, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
Thanks to Robert Loblaw at Decision of the Day for the pointer to this case on Title VII in the prison context. No, prisoners do not have Title VII rights, as they are not statutory employees for Title VII purposes,...
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