Chicago: Parks worker overhears woman spanking her nephew in bathroom
Before you click the link, guess: who wins the $200,000? Was your guess right? Were other guesses just as plausible? And where does race fit in? More: Coyote (“Here is a real journalistic triumph — the...
View ArticleDamned if you do, damned if you don’t files: United Airlines customer service
There is a horrifying tale on Consumerist about a family that missed a flight to visit their dying mother in the hospital because a ticket agent refused to help them because it was time for her break....
View ArticleUpdate: “UPS to allow hard-of-hearing drivers”
Sued-if-you-do, sued-if-you-don’t dept.: “United Parcel Service tentatively settled a 10-year-old lawsuit Tuesday by agreeing to allow some deaf and hard-of-hearing employees to compete for jobs...
View ArticleDomino’s sued in murder of deliveryman
Springfield, Mass.: The parents’ suit charges that the chain wrongfully sent Corey Lind out to deliver pizza to dangerous and unknown addresses; he was ambushed and murdered in 2007. Noteworthy angle:...
View ArticleOz: “Letter bomber Colin Dunstan wins compensation”
Australia: “A man who held the nation to ransom with a letter-bomb campaign has won compensation linked to the failed workplace love affair that sparked the terror reign.” [Herald-Sun] In other...
View ArticleSued if you do, sued if you don’t dept.: laminated vs. tempered glass
As we have seen in earlier coverage, automakers will get sued over some kinds of accident if they decide to use laminated glass, and sued over others if they decide to use nonlaminated glass. Now Ted...
View ArticleShot if you do, sued if you don’t
“There’s no doubt delivering food is a risky job — it routinely ranks on the U.S. Bureau of Labor’s most-dangerous jobs list — and after last week’s much-publicized robbery of a Chinese food...
View ArticleApril 4 roundup
Verbal fireworks from Judge Kozinski in Ninth Circuit “stolen valor” case [Above the Law] Measure of artificially contrived scarcity: “NYC Taxi Medallions Approach $1 Million.” Would officials in...
View ArticleSued if you do dept.: unhappy town hall in New Jersey
Parsippany, N.J. hired a new town clerk last year, but her tenure does not seem to have proved a long or happy one: four office employees soon filed complaints against her, “charging her with making...
View Article“Does Cabbie’s Fear of Dogs Trump Requirement to Allow Service Dogs?”
In Connecticut, disability vs. disability: “A cab driver who claims he suffers from cynophobia (a fear of dogs) and who refused to pick up a blind customer with a service dog has filed a federal...
View ArticleRules against employee fraternization — and how they can backfire
In an effort to reduce possible exposure to harassment claims, employers have occasionally adopted “anti-fraternization” policies that prohibit some types of contact between employees, as by...
View ArticleCity pays $100K over cop’s conduct, now faces claim from him
Washington: “A Lake Stevens police officer who was at the center of a civil rights lawsuit that cost the city $100,000 filed a claim Monday alleging city officials mishandled the lawsuit and tarnished...
View ArticleSued if you do: student suicides
“Suit claims Princeton violated rights of suicidal student by pressuring him to leave” [ABA Journal] Earlier on the direct issue here, here, and here, and more broadly here. Tweet Tags: student...
View Article“Exxon Not Liable for Alligators in Mississippi Dump, Court Rules”
“Exxon Mobil Corp. isn’t responsible for alligators overrunning a rural dump site it owns in Mississippi, the state supreme court ruled, because the global oil explorer can’t control wild animals. …...
View ArticleGreen lawns, brown lawns in California
“On the same day the state approved mandatory outdoor watering restrictions with the threat of $500 fines, the Southern California couple received a letter from their city threatening a $500 penalty...
View ArticleSeptember 2 roundup
Police have traced the crime wave to a single micro-neighborhood in the California capital [Sacramento Bee] “Adam Carolla Settles with the Patent Trolls” [Daniel Nazer/EFF, Reason, related eight days...
View ArticleTexas caterer nailed for “citizenship discrimination”
Missed this one from the fall: a Texas catering business will pay a fine to the U.S. government for having engaged in “citizenship discrimination.” “Culinaire International unlawfully discriminated...
View ArticleSued if you do: SEC vs. EEOC
“Guess what? You know those SEC disclosures about pending litigation that publicly held companies are required by law to make? Well, if an employer says too much, it may be ‘retaliating’ against the...
View Article“LAPD officers awarded $4 million for post-shooting discrimination”
“A jury has awarded a total of $4 million to two Los Angeles police officers who sued the department alleging discrimination and retaliation after the shooting of an unarmed autistic man five years...
View Article“Why Some Male Members of Congress Won’t Be Alone with Female Staffers”
Fearful of allegations of harassment or other impropriety, some male bosses on Capitol Hill have a policy against taking 1-on-1 closed-door meetings with female staffers, which of course itself...
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