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.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
- US Supreme Court: Opinion under ERISA enforcing three-year contractual limitations period for filing suit
- First Circuit: Opinion finding arbitration clause enforceable in legal malpractice claim
- Seventh Circuit: Opinion reversing dismissal and finding episode of blood pressure spike and vision are covered disabilities under ADA
- Press Herald: Commission supports Maine worker’s claim of discrimination
- EEOC: Annual Performance and Accountability Report shows it received 93,727 private sector charges
Monday, December 16, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
- First Circuit: Circuit Judge Kayatta issues opinion vacating summary judgment in FLSA retaliation case, finding sufficient causal connection between CEO’s retaliatory animus and plaintiff’s firing despite lack of direct evidence showing he had a role in decision
- Seventh Circuit: Opinion discusses (without deciding) “close and difficult question” of whether the ADEA federal sector provision requires less than “but for” causation despite Supreme Court
- Fifth Circuit: Unpublished opinion reverses summary judgment on ERISA claim that defendant fired plaintiff to avoid paying his medical benefits, holding that plaintiff did not need to show he was “qualified” to perform his job at the time of his termination
- EEOC: New report lists unconscious gender biases as one of six obstacles facing women in federal workforce
- Equality Maine: New Executive Director hired
- US Dept of Labor: Weekly newsletter
Thursday, December 12, 2013
- Bangor Daily: Mother seeks answers about alleged improper behavior by staffer with her autistic son at Rockland school
- Other Blogs: Seyfarth Shaw: New Department of Transportation Website and Kiosk Regulations Provide Insight into Forthcoming Department of Justice Regulations for Public Accommodations
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
