Law Roundtable

The most recent issue of the SSRN abstracting journal, Economic Perspectives on Employment and Labor Law is out and includes another great article by friend of the blog, David Yamada. Here's the table of contents: Program Take-Up Among CalWORKs Leavers:...

My good friend, Rick Garnett (Notre Dame) has posted on Prawfsblawg an entry entited: The "Institutional" First Amendment. In the post, he discusses the Ninth Circuit's recent decision in McDermott v. Ampersand Publishing (9th Cir. March 11, 2009). The Central...

20TH ANNUAL RCS: The 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey—the 20th annual wave of this survey—finds that the record-low confidence levels measured during the past two years of economic decline appear to have bottomed out. The percentage of workers very confident about...

Nancy Leong (starting at William & Mary Law this Fall) has just posted on SSRN her forthcoming piece in the American University Law Review: Judicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination. Here is the abstract: Jurisprudential remedies for racial discrimination presume the...

Eric Tucker (York - Osgoode Hall) and Judy Fudge (Victoria) have just posted on SSRN their article (forthcoming Canadian Labour and Employment L.J.) The Freedom to Strike in Canada: A Brief Legal History. Here's the abstract: In the B.C. Health...

Best of luck to all competing in New York Law School's 34th Annual Robert F. Wagner National Labor and Employment Law Moot Court Competition. The competition begins today. rb

You may remember that the Eleventh Circuit issued a somewhat surprising decision recently on rehearing in a sexual harassment case, (noted here). That case involved a workplace saturated with graphic discussions of sex and derogatory language about women, although the...

Thanks to Randy Enochs for help with the title on this post and to Josh Pollack for bringing it to my attention. I think I will let the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel piece speak for itself: Johnny Kimble spent a career...

Our own Paul Secunda (Marquette) is at it again. After posting his most recent piece on the captive-audience speech issue, he's adding to his broad scholarship on public employees' free speech rights. The piece is "The Story of Pickering v....

The United States Supreme Court granted cert today in the public employee privacy case of NASA v. Nelson, No. 09-530 (petition for cert here). The case will consider whether NASA, a federal agency, violated the informational privacy rights of employees,...