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Labor & Employment E-Note - May 14, 2013

In This Issue: - Court Rules NLRB's Workplace Union Notices Violated Law - NLRB Urges Regional Directors to Maintain High Settlement Rate - EEOC Seeing Rising Number of Age Discrimination Complaints - OSHA...more

Indiana Anti-Immigration Law Unconstitutional, Court Says

A federal court on Mar. 28 struck down an Indiana law, inspired by Arizona’s infamous SB 1070, that reportedly allowed police to arrest immigrants without warrants. With that lawsuit, immigrant advocate groups have basically...more

Supreme Court To Decide on Proof of Citizenship for Voting

The Supreme Court today said that it would hear arguments over whether states can require proof of citizenship from residents when they register to vote. However, the hearings and ruling will probably not come until next year...more

Labor Letter - August 2012: Was The Supreme Court Term Actually Boring?

A Review of the 2011-2012 Supreme Court's Labor & Employment Decisions In the same year that the Supreme Court issued one of the most important decisions in its history, which ended up being the biggest employment law...more

First Circuit Holds DOMA Unconstitutional

The First Circuit, in a recent landmark decision, Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”) violates the Equal Protection Clause of the...more

Supreme Court Ruling on Arizona Law Has Broad Impact

When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling on the Arizona immigration law last week, public scrutiny of the decision was short-lived because it was eclipsed by the subsequent ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable...more

Attorney: Arizona Can't Implement Immigration Law Without Racial Profiling [Video]

June 28 (Bloomberg Law) -- Careen Shannon, attorney at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP, talks with Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia about the Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of the new Arizona immigration...more

Oppressive Arizona Immigration Law Struck Down by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court today overturned most of a controversial Arizona immigration law, but left in place a provision that allows local and state police to check a person’s immigration papers while making a stop or arrest for...more

SuperVision Today - 2nd Quarter 2012

In This Issue: - Notes from the Chair & Executive Editor - Careful What You Ask For: The EEOC Takes a Hard Line on the Use of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions by Alyesha P. Asghar - Pros...more

Supreme Court Decision Could Spur New Immigration Laws [Video]

May 3 (Bloomberg Law) -- The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in the case over the constitutionality of the new Arizona immigration law known as SB 1070. While the design, implementation and enforcement of...more

Practical Problems With Attempts To Change The Fourteenth Amendment Through An Interstate Birth Certificate Compact

Originally published in 17 Bender’s Immigration Bulletin - May 1, 2012. Recently, many politicians have proposed changing the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause to exclude the U.S.-born children of persons who do...more

Supreme Court Poised to Hear Arizona Immigration Law Arguments

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in the immigration-law case that pits the state of Arizona against the US federal government. At issue are four key provisions in the state’s anti-immigration law, which a...more

Immigration Alert: February 2012

In this issue; - OSC Targets Health Care, Hospitality, Retail, and Other Industries - OSC Settles with California Medical Center Regarding Claims of Discrimination Against Foreign Nationals - Massachusetts...more

Nigeria Terrorism (Prevention) Act 2011

Introduction – Terrorism (Prevention) Act, 2011 Terrorism has continued to threaten global peace and prosperity. To address this criminal activity, governments all over the world, including the Nigerian government, have...more

Ravelis v. Napolitano (N.D. Ill.)

Memorandum Opinion Denying Government's Motion to Dismiss

Decision denying Government's motion to dismiss legally married same-sex couple's challenge to federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA); immigration case in which American citizen is attempting to sponsor his same-sex spouse,...more

Breaking News: Justice Department Goes After Third State for Tackling Immigration

The Obama administration has filed its third lawsuit against a state – this time South Carolina – for trying to deal with illegal immigration on a state level. South Carolina’s law, like proposals in Arizona and Alabama,...more

Johnson v. Whitehead, et. al

Equal Protection challenge to Citizenship Law w/ Classifications based on Illegitimacy & Sex

Today, the UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic at American University Washington College of Law filed a petition for Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging, on Equal Protection grounds, a federal...more

Same Sex Marriage and DOMA - Immigration and Divorce Issues

This article reviews the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and how state law legalizing same sex marriage conflicts with the federal law. It examines two areas specifically: immigration and divorce. This is becoming a legal...more

A Review of the Supreme Court’s 2010 – 2011 Term (full publication)

As the United States Supreme Court’s 2010-2011 term drew to a close, commentators observed several trends in its holdings. In particular, cases involving the First Amendment dominated the term, and the Court imposed...more

GUATEMALAN NATIONAL GETS TWO YEAR SENTENCE IN RHODE ISLAND FOR ILLEGAL RE-ENTRY

A Guatemalan national previously deported after being convicted of a violent crime has been sentenced in federal court in Providence to two years in federal prison for illegally re-entering the United States after...more

The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, Arizona Senate Bill 1070

Full text copy of The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, Arizona Senate Bill 1070, signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer on April 23, 2010. From the law: “The legislature finds that there is a...more

Another Judge Rules Farmers Branch Rental Ban Is Unconstitutional

For the second time, a federal judge has declared a Farmers Branch ordinance banning illegal immigrants from renting in the city to be unconstitutional. Here are excerpts from a Dallas Morning News article reporting this...more

Civil Rights Lawyers Fighting Discrimination Against Hispanics, Latinos and Mexican-Americans in California Are Needed More Than...

Civil rights lawyers are seeing an increase in discrimination toward Hispanics, Latinos and Mexican-Americans due in part to the shortage of available jobs in this economic downturn. This article seeks to examine this...more

Immigrants in the Spotlight Again in Manassas and Prince William County

On February 16, 2009, almost 200 people marched from Manassas Park to the Judicial Center in Manassas to bring attention to a case of alleged police brutality against a local immigrant and Hispanic immigrant issues in...more

Fenwick Employment Brief

IN THIS ISSUE: *Employer Violated Employee Privacy By Accessing Personal Text Messages *No Match Letters Did Not Give Employer Basis To Discharge Employees *"Same Actor" Evidence Did Not Prevent Discrimination...more