Friday, February 20, 2015
- HUD: Conciliation Agreement under the Fair Housing Act reached with City of Berlin, New Hampshire, on claims that the City discriminated against women when it enacted an ordinance requiring landlords to evict tenants cited by police three or more times for “disorderly action” or risk being fined and/or losing their rental license, without an exception for victims of domestic violence, who are overwhelmingly women and who need police assistance
- Maine Legislature: LD 434 would amend Maine joint and several liability law so that, if a defendant is less than 50% at fault for the plaintiff’s injury, that defendant’s liability for damages is equal to the percentage attributable to that defendant; under current law, if two or more defendants are found to be liable to a plaintiff for the same injury, the defendants are jointly and severally liable for the full amount of the plaintiff’s damages
- Maine Legislature: LD 445 would require an employer who terminates the employment of an employee while that employee is out on compensated sick leave to compensate that employee for all accrued sick leave
- Maine Legislature: LD 451 would make changes to disclosure procedures, including allowing a judgment creditor to obtain Department of Labor wage information when a judgment debtor has failed to timely make two or more payments required by an installment payment order
- Maine Legislature: Public hearings on February 24th before the Judiciary Committee include LD 181, which would allow the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to adopt any rules or issue any orders necessary to implement its electronic case management and filing system
- Third Circuit: In reversing summary judgment for corrections officer on inmate’s claim that officer retaliated against him for exercising his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to sign confession to methadone “cupping,” the court held that communication between officer and person who made decision to assign inmate to disciplinary custody was sufficient to raise inference that officer influenced the disciplinary custody assignment
- MHRC: Amended February 23rd Commission Meeting Agenda and Consent Agenda posted
