Recent Updates
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Court takes up public employees' privacy case
Labor & Employment 04/20/2010The Supreme Court appears likely to rule against public employees who claimed a local government violated their privacy by reading racy text messages they sent on their employers' account.Several justices said Monday that the employer, the Ontario, C...
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Dallas labor & employment lawyer - Jill Weinberg
Labor & Employment 04/20/2010Ms. Weinberg provides corporations with practical and proactive labor and employment law counseling services. She works closely with high-tech and start-up companies in the Richardson, Plano, Frisco and Dallas areas. Non-compete agreements Confidenti...
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Major Supreme Court cases for the new term
Labor & Employment 10/05/2009Highlights of some high-profile cases that the Supreme Court will take up in its term that begins Monday:_Guns: The Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms has never been held to apply to state and local laws restricting guns. The court is tak...
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Ky. high court clears way for mine death lawsuit
Labor & Employment 05/21/2009The widow of a Kentucky coal miner who bled to death after his legs were cut off in a gruesome underground accident can proceed with a lawsuit against the company that employed him. The Kentucky Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling Thursday, gave Ste...
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Court rules for worker over retaliation
Labor & Employment 01/26/2009The Supreme Court has ruled that workers who cooperate with internal investigations of retaliation by their employers are sheltered by federal laws prohibiting job discrimination. In an opinion Monday, the justices held that a longtime school system ...
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Court issues injunction against United pilot union
Labor & Employment 11/18/2008United Airlines said on Tuesday that a federal judge has barred its pilot union and four pilots from activities that disrupt the airline's activities.United had accused some pilots of abusing sick time and refusing to fly extra hours. Sick-outs in pa...
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Court sympathetic to worker's retaliation claims
Labor & Employment 10/09/2008Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they would side with a longtime government worker who claims she was fired in retaliation after she cooperated with a sexual harassment investigation.The court wrestled with whether the anti-retaliation prov...
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Iowa meat co. fights unionization at NY warehouse
Labor & Employment 09/16/2008A kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa that was the target of a sweeping immigration raid this year is not the only venue where the plant's owners are locked in a fight over undocumented workers.Agriprocessors Inc. has gone all the way to the U.S. Suprem...
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Writers' Strike Nearing A Resolution
Labor & Employment 02/10/2008Hollywood writers were optimistic they could end a three-month strike that has crippled the entertainment industry after reviewing a proposed deal from studios that increases their payments for online use of TV shows and movies.Leaders of the Writers...
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House Fails to Overcome Veto on Health Bill Vote
Labor & Employment 10/25/2007[##_1L|1317349010.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]Once again defying a veto threat from President Bush, the House this afternoon passed a new bill to provide health insurance for 10 million children, but not by a margin large enough to overri...
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Chrysler and UAW talks pick up
Labor & Employment 10/07/2007[##_1L|1089199956.jpg|width="90" height="119" alt=""|_##]Negotiators with the United Auto Workers union and Chrysler LLC remained at the bargaining table Saturday evening as efforts to reach a tentative contract agreement intensified, a person briefe...
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UAW Wins Job Security Pledges in GM Deal
Labor & Employment 09/29/2007[##_1L|1409801856.jpg|width="90" height="119" alt=""|_##]Local union leaders on Friday endorsed a tentative agreement between General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers that requires GM to pay out at least $35 billion for retiree health care, e...