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Dave McLain named Barrister’s Best Construction Defects Lawyer for Defendants for 2019
The attorneys and staff at Higgins, Hopkins, McLain & Roswell are proud to announce that Law Week Colorado named Founding Member Dave McLain as the 2019 People’s Choice for Best Construction Defects Lawyer for Defendants. According to the publication:
Law Week Colorado asked its readership to weigh in on the best attorneys in just about every practice area we could think of. We received hundreds of responses and sifted through the votes for each category…
Recent Petitions to Vacate – Persona non grata, a dispute over back pay, and transfer of work to a non-unit employee
Teamsters Local 853 v. SFO Transporter, Inc. d/b/a Compass TransportationThe Teamsters Union is seeking to set aside an award of Arbitrator David B. Hart. Grievant had been employed as a shuttle bus driver, driving for clients and customers of Compass. A client of Compass requested that grievant be removed from its account based on an anonymous complaints from passengers. Shortly thereafter, Compass terminated grievant’s employment. The cba between Teamsters and Compass provides:Under direction from any client or…
A NYC COURT ADDRESSES DEFAULT JUDGMENTS
New EEOC case is a not-so-subtle reminder that we still have a lot of work to do to improve race relations
SJC upholds settlement/assignment agreement between plaintiff and insured tortfeasor, but holds that a settlement amount that exceeds the policy limit is per se unreasonable
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President Trump Sends Rosh Hashanah Greetings
The White House today issued a Presidential Statement on Rosh Hashanah (full text). The holiday begins this evening. The statement says in part:
…[W]e are all reminded of the virtues we can incorporate into our lives to better us as a Nation—kindness, compassion, and love. Together, with devotion to these ideals, we can form more sincere bonds with people of all faiths to help spread peace and prosperity in the United States and…
Recent Articles of Interest
From SSRN:
Patrick Parkinson, Is Gender Identity Discrimination a Religious Freedom Issue?, (September 6, 2019).
Robin Fretwell Wilson, Family Law Isolationism and ‘Church, State, and Family’, (Forthcoming, Emory Journal of Law and Religion).
Nicholas Aroney, Religious Discrimination and Religious Freedom: An Evaluation of the Exposure Draft of the Australian Religious Discrimination Bill 2019, (September 17, 2019).
Steven Douglas Smith, One Step Enough, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 19-414 (2019)).
Sean…
DOJ Backs Catholic Archdiocese In Firing of Teacher For Same-Sex Marriage
On Friday, the Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest (full text) in an Indiana state trial court in Payne-Elliott v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Inc., (IN Super Ct., 9/27/2019). In the suit, a teacher in a Catholic school in Indianapolis claims that the Archdiocese wrongly interfered with his contractual relationship with the school when the Archdiocese ordered the school to dismiss the teacher because of his public same-sex marriage. (See prior …
6th Circuit holds that an employee cannot contractually shorten Title VII’s statute of limitations
