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Connecticut Law Tribune

Yale Associate Professor Claims Sexual Harassment Led to Firing

Negative statements about Byrne's research work began soon after she "moved pillows to avoid contact with professor Gonzalez Echevarria's lap" in October 2014, the suit asserts.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Court Fight Looms for Controversial New Education Law

The Broward County School Board voted to move ahead with legal action against a sweeping new education law, an initial step toward a court clash over one of the legislative session's most controversial bills.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Recognizing Universal Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques

One of Connecticut's oldest and most distinguished ADR organizations is Community Mediation Inc. Frequently operating without fanfare and appropriate recognition, CMI toils tirelessly to resolve those disputes which tear at the fabric of everyday life, such as domestic disputes, landlord/tenant conflicts, parent/teen misunderstanding, property line disputes and even barking dogs, just to mention a few.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Student Loan Skirmish Becomes War as 19 AGs Sue DeVos

A group of 19 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday to stop the Trump administration's rollback of an Obama-era regulation intended to protect student loan borrowers.
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Discrimination Suit Against South Texas Law School Tossed

A black law librarian who sued South Texas College of Law—Houston has lost his lawsuit filed in 2014.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Summer School at the Law Center

Summer school is in session at NJICLE where a series of summer institutes will cover issues from DWI updates to family law to labor and employment matters.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Stacey Evans 2018: Restoring 'HOPE' to Georgia

The litigation attorney doesn't shy away from the topic of her kind of diversity—of economic circumstances and breaking out of family educational limits.
10 minute read

The Recorder

Window Rock Unified School District v. Reeves

9th Cir.; 13-16259 The court of appeals reversed a judgment. The court held that tribal courts had jurisdiction over employment disputes involving Arizona…
4 minute read

The Recorder

Jacobs v. The Regents of the University of California

C.A. 2nd; B268758 The Second Appellate District affirmed a judgment. The court held that University of California peace officers receiving “duty…
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

School Dist. of Phila. v. Phila. Federation of Teachers, PICS Case No. 17-0985 (Pa. Commw. June 8, 2017) Cosgrove, J. (17 pages).

The School District of Philadelphia could not impose new, nonmandatory terms upon members of the teacher's union unilaterally, without engaging in prior bargaining under a collective bargaining agreement because an employer must maintain the status quo of an expired contract until a new contract has been negotiated. The court affirmed a trial court order denying the district's motion to set aside an award sustaining a union grievance.
6 minute read

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