Today, organizations access gig workers virtually and send them on-site to perform work at corporations, hospitals, and family homes without ever meeting the worker.
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Roberts, the likely swing voter, seems inclined to take a different path.
Read More »Supreme Court can interpret ‘sex’ in many ways
Does the ban on workplace discrimination based on “sex,” as laid out in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity? U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up both questions in its October 2019 term. It’s potentially a big moment for LGBT rights.
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By F. Dennis Saylor IV and Daniel I. Small BridgeTower Media Newswires Technology has transformed the nature, organization and presentation of evidence at trials. Its ...
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The demise of low-visibility individuals often obscures their importance in the law.
Read More »Sybil Procedure: Carrying the torch that Madison lit
I can do math and at this rate, it will take 120 years to get to gender parity on the 8th Circuit. Which is troubling because women have been graduating from law school at the same rate as men since the 1980s.
Read More »Trial tip: Preparing a witness outline
When it comes to organizing for trial and questioning witnesses, there is no “one size fits all” way to do it. Nevertheless, there are good reasons for and against different approaches.
Read More »Commentary: New York, religious laws agree on vaccinations
Forced vaccination is a classic instance of a situation where the courts have to balance individual liberties against the public interest.
Read More »Briefly: A (new) legal citation to consider
What if we told you that there is a new parenthetical used in legal citations that is taking the appellate world by storm? Yes, it’s hard to believe that appellate lawyers are so easily impressed but some of us just are.
Read More »Commentary: If Julian Assange encouraged leaks, so what?
Can Assange be lawfully prosecuted for somehow facilitating illegal theft of classified information? Or is the organization he founded, WikiLeaks, protected by the First Amendment when it publishes documents supplied by others, like the New York Times when it published the Pentagon Papers?
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