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Family Responsibilities Discrimination Claims Are on the Rise
Employees across the nation -- both women and men -- are increasingly alleging discrimination based upon family caregiving responsibilities. Randi W. Kochman, a partner in Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard's employment law department, discusses the legal theories supporting these claims, and details some pending cases. One involves a female attorney's claim that a compensation committee member suggested she give up shareholder status and work part-time to spend more time with her family.Practitioners Blast ABA Over Ethics Opinion Charges
Pa. High Court: Slipshod Workmanship Doesn't Trigger Accident Coverage
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has established a bright-line rule holding that an insurer's duty to defend a policyholder insured against accidents cannot be triggered by allegations of shoddy workmanship. The case arose from a complaint filed by Bethlehem Steel Corp. over a faulty coke oven battery. The oven manufacturer said the damage was caused by heavy rains during construction, but the high court rejected the argument that this was an accident for purposes of the manufacturer's insurance policy.Exxon footnote shrouded in mystery
The footnote was easy to miss. It began on page 27 of Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, issued by the Supreme Court on June 25, and it ended on the next page. But Justice David Souter's footnote 17 has reverberated around law schools, leading Hugh Young, a lawyer involved in the landmark punitive damages case, to predict that "it is going to become the great mystery footnote of the decade.View more book results for the query "*"
Tenn. teen battles school's Confederate flag ban
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. AP - Tommy DeFoe wore his Southern pride on his Confederate flag belt buckle Wednesday as he argued in federal court that a school dress code banning such items violated his free speech rights."I am fighting for my heritage and my rights as a Southerner and an American," said the lanky DeFoe, 18, during a break in his trial.Historian charged with stealing Theodore Roosevelt letter from New York association
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. AP - A one-time director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association stole and tried to auction off one of its prized artifacts - a 1918 letter the former president wrote about his son Quentin's death in World War I, prosecutors said.Edward Renehan Jr., a historian who has written six books, was charged Wednesday with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal possession of a forged instrument.Trending Stories
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