You can tell from the tone and tenor of my recent posts that the current state of my country, politics, and democracy has me concerned and scared. Which is why last night was so, so good for my soul.If you are a fan of rock ‘n’ roll and have the chance to see Jack White
This case started with a pair of Skechers, and will end with a jury trial.
A cocktail server at MGM National Harbor, Rebecca Lopez-Duprey, suffered from foot conditions—Achilles tendonitis and Equinus deformity—that made wearing heels painful and medically inadvisable. Her doctor recommended she wear flat, supportive shoes. Eventually, MGM granted her an ADA accommodation to
$75,000. That’s what Morton Salt just paid to settle a lawsuit brought by the EEOC.
The agency alleged that Morton Salt discriminated against a Black employee because of his race and disability—and then retaliated against him for reporting it.
The allegations are disturbing:
ChatGPT continues to amaze me with what it can do. Last week, I asked it to write a parody of “Green Eggs & Ham” about tariffs. You can read that story — called This Tariff Sham — over on LinkedIn.
This week, I decided to take it a step further: “Can you write a
Charles Carroll worked as a high-ranking exec at IDEMIA, the company behind TSA PreCheck. He ran a new initiative called “Trusted Fan” and was involved in renewing a major TSA contract.
He was also in his 60s and had recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
A year after disclosing his diagnosis, and after delivering the
“[The chief’s] actions not only fail to meet the standards of professional conduct but also appear intended to humiliate me and other victims.” That’s according to a North Bergen, NJ, police officer speaking to People Magazine about his boss, Police Chief Robert Farley.
“Failing to meet the standards of professional conduct” might be understatement of
Some federal agencies within the Trump administration have delayed acting on employee requests for reasonable accommodations because they are still figuring out their return-to-office policies.
That’s not how the ADA works.
The ADA doesn’t allow employers to “wait and see” before engaging in the interactive process. It doesn’t allow delays while leadership huddles over long-term
“Could the President decide that he wasn’t going to appoint or allow to remain in office any heads of agencies over 40 years old?”
“I think that that would be within the President’s constitutional authority under the removal power.”
That exchange took place earlier this week between Judge Karen Henderson, a Reagan appointee to the
“The Government’s arguments … threaten to upend fundamental protections in our Constitution. But ours is not an autocracy; it is a system of checks and balances. Our Founders recognized that the concentration of power in one branch of government would spell disaster.”So wrote Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the United States District Court for
This news should alarm any rational lawyer. Donald Trump has issued an Executive Order punishing Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
The EO does the following: