Economics Roundtable

by David Madland, Director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress and co-author of “The Progressive Generation: How Young Adults Think About the Economy”

According to the results of a first-of-a-kind analysis about Millennials’ views on the economy, a majority ...

The Texas Supreme Court provided a victory to the maker of BIC lighters when it ruled that a tort claim against the company could not be brought because of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Act, Texas Lawyer reported.

The state high court concluded that ...

Shareholders suing DVI Inc., a health care finance company that went bankrupt, will not be able to recover against London law firm Clifford Chance for allegedly conspiring with DVI’s executives to conceal the company’s financial health through use of sham transactions, a Philadelphia federal ...

A new study finds that state courts are far more likely to vacate arbitration awards for employees than for employers.  State appellate courts confirmed only 56.4% of the cases in which employees prevailed in arbitration, as opposed to 86.7% of the cases in which ...

There is a growing debate, fueled by poor military medical care, about whether active-duty service personnel should be able to sue for malpractice.  Such malpractice suits have been barred since the Supreme Court’s 1950 decision in Feres v. United States. 

Feres’ critics argue ...

Earlier this week, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman could not be held liable for telling New York City residents that the air near the fallen World Trade ...

by Simon Lazarus and Harper Jean Tobin, attorneys with the National Senior Citizens Law Center

On April 23, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the fifth and final age discrimination case before it this term, Meacham v. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. This case ...

Tuesday is "Equal Pay Day": the day when an average woman’s wages finally catch up to the wages earned the year before by the average man. Earlier this month, Fatima Goss Graves, senior counsel at the National Women's Law Center, shared her

Although Barnard College in New York eventually granted Nadia Abu El-Haj tenure as an associate professor of anthropology, it was an arduous process that proved a testing ground for academic freedom. Jane Kramer authored an exhaustive piece for The New Yorker ...

A law practice in Mineola, N.Y. is drawing a lot of attention from many, including lawyers and others, for its ban on the use of BlackBerry-style devices at “major meetings.”

A partner with the law firm, Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone LLP, told Newsday that ...