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California Employment Law Update
UPS May Not Have Violated The ADA By Excluding Deaf Drivers Who Failed To Satisfy DOT Hearing Standard
By Tony Oncidi
Bates v. United Parcel Serv., 511 F.3d 974 (9th Cir. 2007) (en banc) One of the requirements applied by UPS to those applicants seeking to drive the familiar brown “package cars”…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A bunch of new cert grant at SCOTUS
Main December 7, 2007A bunch of new cert grant at SCOTUSOver at SCOTUSblog, Lyle Denniston has this post entitled "Court grants six new cases." Here are snippets from the post,…
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
10 Myths of Brain Injuries – Myth 10
This myth has been rejected by the National Institute of Health. In its consensus statement, NIH writes that the consequences of TBI include a dramatic change in the individual's life…
EvidenceProf Blog
Article Of Interest: Professor Deirdre Smith Addresses The Role Of Medical Evidence In The ADA Definition of Disability
By Colin Miller
Professor Deirdre Smith of the University of Maine School of Law has written a fascinating forthcoming article for the Tulane Law Review. The article, "Who Says You're Disabled: The Role…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Experts: More Employees Working Through Pain
MSNBC.com has the report:There are 130 million people who have one ormore chronic conditions in the United States today, according to GerardAnderson, professor of Health Policy and Management at Johns…
California Employment Law Update
Rejected Applicant’s ADA And Title VII Claims Were Properly Dismissed
By Tony Oncidi
Nilsson v. City of Mesa, 503 F.3d 947 (9th Cir. 2007) Christine Nilsson applied for a position as a police officer with the City of Mesa, Arizona. In conjunction with her…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship
ArticlesRuth Colker, The Mythic 43 Million Americans with Disabilities, 49 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1 (2007).Richard E. Moberly, Unfulfilled Expectations: An Empirical Analysis of Why Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers Rarely Win,…
The Right Coast
Another nail in the coffin Tom Smith
Oh, swell. Arthur Miller had a son with Down's Syndrome that he abandoned in an institution, and conveniently forgot to mention that in his memoirs. (HT Instapundit.) I wonder if…
Labor Law Prof Blog
PING: Disabled Individuals Found to Be Employees Under Brevard StandardURL: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/2007/07/disabled-indivi.htmlIP: 10.0.60.7BLOG NAME: Adjunct Law Prof BlogDATE: 07/05/2007 10:23:48 PMIn Goodwill Industries, of North Georgia, Inc., 350 NLRB No. 5 (June 21, 2007), the Board reaffirmed the Brevard Achievement Center, 342 NLRB 982 (2004) standard to determine statutory employee status of disabled individuals working in rehabilitative v…
In Goodwill Industries of North Georgia, Inc., 350 N.L.R.B. No. 5 (June 21, 2007), the Board recently found that disabled janitorial workers should be classified as statutory employees. In rejecting…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Disability Planning
William L. E. Dussault (Dussault Law Group, Seattle, Washington) has recently published his articled entitled Planning for Disability, 33 ACTEC J. 42 (2007). Here is the author's description of the…