Last month Nevada joined a growing number of states and cities that are forbidding companies from using credit checks to make employment decisions. But the practice is still legal under federal law....more
6/13/2013
- Credit Checks
After the former front man for late-60s and 70s supergroup Sly and the Family Stone sued his former manager for tricking him into signing away his royalty rights, the manager is now putting Stone’s production companies into...more
6/11/2013
- Breach of Contract Celebrities Chapter 11 Fraud
An evangelical preacher-turned-doctor has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for luring patients with cancer and other serious diseases into expensive treatments with her “herbal remedy” that in fact contained things like...more
5/31/2013
- Cancer Fraud Healthcare Scams Sentencing Tax Evasion Wire Fraud
Closing arguments wrapped up on May 20 in Floyd v. City of New York, the first trial to spotlight New York City’s controversial “stop and frisk” law enforcement program, which plaintiffs say amounts to unconstitutional racial...more
5/22/2013
- Gun Laws Officers Racial Profiling Stop and Frisk
A couple who has been active in the effort to have medicinal marijuana use protected in Florida had their crop seized by the sheriff; now the cops are refusing to give it back, so the couple is suing....more
5/16/2013
- Legalization Marijuana Medical Marijuana
A teacher in Texas lost her job after failing to show up for jury duty and being jailed. It mattered not that she had a great excuse – because she’d already used up her one chance to reschedule....more
5/14/2013
- Judges Jury Duty
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on May 3 that the state must recognize children born to lesbian couples as having two parents on their birth certificate, ensuring full parental rights for both parents and equal treatment for gay...more
5/10/2013
- Equal Protection LGBT Parental Rights Same-Sex Marriage
While students get breaks on their loans in some ways, filing bankruptcy has never been one of them. But if a federal appellate opinion and action in Congress are any indicators, that could be changing....more
5/8/2013
- Dischargeable Debts Student Loans Undue Hardship
Things can change fast at your job, but one thing hasn’t changed much over the years: employers’ use of “loss prevention” strategies to monitor, prevent, and punish internal theft and fraud. If your employer’s loss prevention...more
5/2/2013
- Loss Prevention Workplace Investigations
The parents of two children whose grandparents had just been granted custody of them have been jailed back in the United States after they kidnapped the boys and fled in a sailboat to Cuba. ...more
4/16/2013
- Child Custody Extradition Kidnapping
While a bill legalizing gay marriage awaits enough support in the Illinois House of Representatives, the Cook County clerk is not defending against a lawsuit brought against the county by gay couples who say its refusal to...more
4/5/2013
- Proposed Legislation Same-Sex Marriage
The New York City Council on Mar. 13 passed a law forbidding employers from discriminating against job applicants who are unemployed. It is the first law in the country to provide a private cause of action for people who are...more
3/20/2013
- Discrimination Local Ordinance Unemployment Discrimination
