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Employment & Labor
Déjà Vu All Over Again: EEOC’s Fiscal Year-End Lawsuit Blitz Once Again Catches Dozens Of Employers In Litigation Net
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Christopher DeGroff, and Matthew Gagnon In the words of the immortal bard Yogi Berra, “it's like déjà vu all over again.” As we have reported…
Education Law Prof Blog
Education Advocates Abandon Federal Courts and Flood State Courts
By Derek Black
Yesterday, Edweek pointed out that the U.S. Supreme Court has not issued an elementary and secondary school case in the last five years--a dry spell unseen since before Brown v. Board…
inversecondemnation.com
New Blog Worth Following: Federal Takings
Here's one to definitely add to your blogroll: Federal Takings, by the rails-to-trails litigation practice at Arent Fox, including our frequent guest blogger, Thor Hearne. The focus is on rails-to-trails cases,…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Inmates Emailing, Expert Witnesses,
If you haven't noticed, the BP oil spill litigation is not going well for the energy giant. Now, on top of that, they're getting in trouble for cheating in their…
Employment Discrimination Report
Tribunal Fees: Will It Deter Discrimination By Employers?
The number of employment discrimination charges is plunging in the UK, we noted the other day: new Ministry of Justice second quarter 2014 statistics for employment tribunals “show an overall…
Appellate Advocacy Blog
BP Counsel Fiddles With Line Spacing in Federal Filing
This is the kind of basic advocacy blunder that is hard to believe, but it's being reported that BP's counsel fiddled with the formatting to file an over-length brief without…
Education Law Prof Blog
Lawsuit Challenges School Funding in Mississippi, Others Favor Constitutional Amendment
By Derek Black
In late August, a group of 14 school districts filed suit against the state of Mississippi, alleging that its failure to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Eduction Program since 2010…
Wage & Hour Law Update
Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Reiterates And Expands on Prior Opinion Regarding Plaintiff’s Attorneys’ Fees
As the volume of FLSA litigation remains high, an impediment to resolving such cases (even where the underlying claimant’s wage claim already has been resolved) is the issue of the…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
More Praise for the FRCP Forms
Speaking of the possibly soon-to-be-extinct official forms following the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Professor A. Benjamin Spencer has posted on SSRN his article, "The Forms Have (Had?) a Function,"…
The Contingency
Best Lawyers Tags 17 SG Lawyers for 2015
The 2015 edition of Best Lawyers has emerged from embargo. It lists 17 partners in Blawgletter's firm. And, yes, it includes Blawgletter. For the 11th time. Go figure. Dallas Blawgletter: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial…