Students Rights in Sexual Misconduct Cases.
The first judicial ruling in recent years to find that a university failed to provide a fair trial in a sexual misconduct case could have a broad national impact on campus sex misconduct...
View ArticleThe Battle between Encryption & Spying Powers
The United Kingdom is still looking to push major new spying powers into law, despite a report it commissioned advising that they weren’t needed. This is especially concerning to privacy advocates in...
View ArticleAnalytics & Employment Discrimination
Many organizations are using predictive analytics to do a better job of selecting candidates. Frequently, pre-employment testing results are evaluated and employees are screened by comparing an...
View ArticleCecil, Hercules, & Leo – NonHuman Rights
New York County Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe has issued a 33-page decision in the Nonhuman Rights Project’s (NhRP) habeas corpus case on behalf of two chimpanzees being held in captivity in a...
View ArticleNLRB Expands Scope of Joint Employer Liability
“In a 3-2 decision involving Browning-Ferris Industries of California, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) refined its standard for determining joint-employer status. The revised standard is...
View Article2016 EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATES
Start your new year clearly understanding some of the changes to California and federal employment laws for 2016. A summary of some of the key new laws follows. The effective date of the particular new...
View ArticleUnderstanding HOA’s application of CC&Rs for Solar Systems
In California, common interest developments such as condominiums and planned communities typically have associations to manage their affairs and enforce their rules. These associations, often called...
View ArticleFirst Amendment Fortune Tellers & Fraud
California law, Penal Code Section 332 prohibits “pretensions to fortune telling,” but genuine fortune-telling is protected under the guarantee of free speech. Legal protection, regulation and...
View ArticleSodomy is not a Crime, if Victim is Unconscious in Oklahoma
“Forcible sodomy cannot occur where a victim is so intoxicated as to be completely unconscious at the time of the sexual act of oral copulation,” the Court of Criminal Appeals in the State of Oklahoma...
View ArticleMental Health, Homelessness & Criminal Justice
Is Stealing Food Not a Crime if You are Homeless and Hungry? It’s a Mental Health Issue. The Supreme Court of Cassation threw out the conviction of a homeless man from Ukraine, Roman Ostriakov, who was...
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