Legal Updates
John Gause monitors what’s happening in employment discrimination, civil rights, and tort law. He shares some of what he finds on this page.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
- Law Court: Decision in Bell v. Dawson (negligent supervision)
- Law Court: Several tort cases scheduled for oral argument during week of December 16, 2013
- Bangor Daily: Panel finds Maine Labor Department ‘vastly understaffed’ but no unemployment bias
- Press Herald: Panel: No bias in Maine unemployment claims dispute process
- Bangor Daily: Parents not obligated to ‘monitor sleep patterns at a teenage sleepover,’ Maine court rules in skateboard crash case
Monday, December 9, 2013
Friday, December 6, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
- Bangor Daily: Jewish ex-waitress who said Brewer restaurant owner called her a Nazi settles lawsuit
- US Dept of Labor: Maine stone-crushing plant to pay former miner to resolve US Labor Department retaliation charge
- Press Herald: Maine town sued in shooting death of Army veteran
- Findings and Recommendations of the Unemployment Reform Blue Ribbon Commission
- Law Court: Oral argument audio in Hickson v. Vescom (Whistleblower case)
- Law Court: Oral argument audio in Bratton v. McDonough (lead poisoning)
- First Circuit: Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Amendments Effective December 1, 2013
- First Circuit: Increase to the Appellate Filing Fee and Other Miscellaneous Fee Changes Effective December 1, 2013