Wednesday, August 13, 2014

First Circuit: In affirming judgment for plantiff on claim for tranportation services under Title I of Rehabilitation Act, the court held, as a matter of first impression, that 4-year federal catch-all statute of limitations applied to judicial review of adverse hearing officer decision (not the 30-day deadline in the Maine Administrative Procedures Act) because the Rehab Act provision allowing for judicial review was added in 1998, and the federal catch-all SOL applies to civil actions arising under an Act of Congress enacted after December 1, 1990
Ninth Circuit: The court held that inmate stated a § 1983 claim under Sixth Amendment right to counsel when prison official read as opposed to inspected a confidential letter to his lawyer
Third Circuit: Court held that state supreme court attorney-conduct guideline that bans advertising with quotations from judicial opinions unless the opinions appear in full was an unconstitutional infringement on commercial speech as applied to law firm that published on its website portions of an opinion that were complimentary to a lawyer in the firm
MHRC: September 8th Commission meeting Agenda posted
EEOC: Settlement reached in Title VII case that alleged that employer refused to hire a woman for the courtesy van driver position out of concern that a female driver would be at greater risk of being assaulted on the job than a male driver

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