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Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 325: Listen and Learn -- The Fourth Amendment: Informer Tips
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 156: Listen and Learn -- The Fourth Amendment: Informer Tips
Inside DC Podcast: FY2022 Budget Recap and the DC Council’s Fall Agenda
Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Can Copyrighted Music Keep Vids of Police Encounters Off The Internet?
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Can Copyrighted Music Keep Vids of Police Encounters Off The Internet?
Book Discussion with Brittany Barnett, Author of A Knock at Midnight, and Tanya Eiserer (WFAA-TV)
Compliance Perspectives: Ethics and Policing in the UK
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Policing Reform
A Moment of Simple Justice - Cameras on Cops
A Moment of Simple Justice - Ferguson
New Jersey to consider allowing police to search cell phones to combat distracted driving
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has recently decided the case of Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and another v Agnew and others, a Northern Irish case that has been working its way through...more
Suppose a public employee maliciously and without probable cause files a lawsuit or initiates an administrative proceeding against you. You succeed in obtaining a dismissal, but would like to hold that employee accountable. ...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
No good deed goes unpunished - Little did City of Durham Police Sergeant Michael Mole' know, in his first crack at negotiating on his own the surrender of an armed and barricaded suspect, that he would be fired because he...more
Brome v. California Highway Patrol, 44 Cal. App. 5th 786 (2020) - Jay Brome sued the California Highway Patrol (“CHP”) after resigning as a law enforcement officer, claiming he had been subjected to harassment and...more
Ridgeway v. Wal-Mart, Inc., 946 F.3d 1066 (9th Cir. 2020) - The employer must pay minimum wages to employees for time spent on mandated layovers where the employer’s policy imposes constraints on employees’ movements...more
Shauna Amon Writes About Public Employer New Laws in PublicCEO - California and federal courts, along with the state’s Public Employer Relations Board, handed down a number of decisions last year that will impact public...more
Just another day in paradise in Los Angeles… Unless you happen to be an employer. Continuing the recent spate of multi-million dollar verdicts, an LA jury awarded a former police officer $7 million on her sex discrimination...more
In yet another legal development calling into question a traditional independent contractor relationship in the U.S., the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit determined that off-duty police officers were employees of a...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In Ly v. County of Fresno, the Court of Appeal held that correctional officers’ claims for race, ethnicity, and national origin discrimination were barred because the claims had been previously denied in...more
Police officers in the Chicago Police Department claimed in a recent case that they were not compensated for work they performed on their mobile electronic devices — specifically, their BlackBerrys — while off-duty. A total...more
You might hate to admit it, but it’s true: mobile devices are the adult version of a toddler’s teddy bear. They give us comfort and a sense of belonging. We carry them everywhere and traveling without them makes us feel like...more
Generally speaking, our workers’ compensation laws provide certain benefits for injuries arising out of or in the course of employment. Certain employees (police officers and firefighters) are referred to as “portal to...more
Hold the iPhone —a recent lawsuit by a group of Chicago police officers should have employers on high alert—at least those who permit, officially or not, non-exempt employees to do anything business-related on a mobile...more
If a public employee reports departmental-safety concerns to his supervisor, and the employee is removed from duty for raising those concerns, does the employee have a viable First Amendment retaliation claim? ...more