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Employment Practices

[03/09] Senate to take up unemployment insurance extension
[03/08] Allergan CEO got $11.1M in compensation in 2009
[03/08] Court will decide if NASA checks can continue

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Labor

[03/09] Ohio gunman recently learned he was being fired
[03/09] Senate to take up unemployment insurance extension
[03/08] XenoPort slashes half its work force

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Labor and Management Relations

[03/09] Global Manpower Employment Outlook Survey Reveals Optimism as Most Major Labor Markets Expect to Hire in 2Q at Equal or Stronger Pace as Same Time Last Year
[03/09] Job openings up sharply in January to 2.7M
[03/09] Senate to take up unemployment insurance extension

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Supreme Court

[03/08] Court won't disturb ban on death row interviews
[03/08] Court to rule in military funeral protest case
[03/08] Court will decide if NASA checks can continue

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Top Headlines

[03/09] TV producer admits attempting Letterman shakedown
[03/09] Ohio gunman recently learned he was being fired
[03/09] Pa. woman charged with recruiting jihadists online

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Case Summaries

Labor & Employment Law

[03/09] Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & Sch.
In an employment discrimination and retaliation action brought by a teacher at a religious school claiming violations of the ADA, the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant based on the "ministerial exception" is vacated and remanded as, given the factual findings relating to plaintiff's primary duties as a teacher, the district court erred in its legal conclusion classifying her as a ministerial employee.

[03/08] McBeth v. Himes
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action arising out of an investigation by the sheriff's office and the Colorado Department of Human Services that resulted in plaintiff surrendering her license to run a daycare facility in Colorado, partial summary judgment based on qualified immunity to defendant-officials is affirmed in part where: 1) plaintiff voluntarily relinquished her license before any suspension proceedings could take place; and 2) defendants made a prima facie showing that they acted objectively reasonably when they sought suspension of plaintiff's daycare license. However, the order is reversed in part where plaintiff failed to allege and prove that the state officials lacked cause to seek suspension of her license.

[03/05] Rhine v. Stevedoring Servs. of Am.
In a petition for review of a decision of the Benefits Review Board under 33 U.S.C. section 921(c) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, the petition is denied where: 1) a reasonable mind could have concluded that the Pacific Maritime Association Average adequately represented petitioner's annual earning capacity; and 2) the availability of alternative employment was determined by reference to two criteria: the claimant's physical abilities and the economic availability of particular jobs in the market.

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