The return of the U.S. Supreme Court from its summer recess today gives the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a chance to improve its ...
Read More »Tanick: It’s no joke: Don’t appeal too early (or late) in 8th Circuit
“Finality as a condition of review is an historic characteristic of federal appellate procedure.” —Cobbledick v. United States, 309 U.S. 323, 324-25 (1940) There’s an ...
Read More »Tanick: Different results in 8th Circuit, high court in equal pay cases
“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.” —Susan B. Anthony (March 18, 1869) Equal pay was the subject of a ...
Read More »Tanick: Probationary teachers lose pair of panel proceedings
As educational personnel head back to school to begin the upcoming academic year, teachers who have not achieved tenure through the public school system are ...
Read More »Tanick: Courts consider couple of Confrontation Clause cases
One of the many important rights of criminal defendants is contained in the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. Under that provision, and its counterpart ...
Read More »Tanick: Second Amendment shot down in recent firearms cases
“Our founding fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules.” —Wayne LaPierre, vice president of the National Rifle Association, February 2009 The ...
Read More »Tanick: ‘Savior’ Sotomayor recalls Minnesota’s Metrodome matter
“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” —Jacques Barzun, God’s Country and Mind (1954) Second U.S. Circuit Court ...
Read More »Tanick: Students lose harassment, unemployment cases
“In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days …” —Charles Lamb, Old Familiar Faces (1798) As the 2008-09 school year was drawing to ...
Read More »Tanick: Civil, criminal cases split on oral agreements
“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.” —Samuel Goldwyn of MGM Studios (1937) The concept of oral agreements usually evokes thoughts ...
Read More »Tanick: Varying voices heard in two 8th Circuit ADA cases
“For my voice, I have lost it …”. —W. Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth, Part II (1598) Disabled employees, employers and their respective advocates are awaiting ...
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