Another manic Monday. So it’s time to roll out another edition of quick hits where I highlight stories you might have missed over the last week or two.
Nearly a week after voting to approve proposed regulations implementing the ADA Amendments Act, the actual text of the proposed regulations is finally trickling out on the internet. You can download a copy here. (Thanks to HRHero for posting them.)
At 93 pages long, there’s a lot to digest. I’ll have a more
The next month or two will certainly be interesting around the workplace. The H1N1 Virus continues to spread around the country, a new vaccine is ready to be rolled out that experts hope will stave off further infections. And employers are, in some cases, holding their collective breath that the vaccine wins out so
It’s been a busy week. The ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels project stopped by for a visit yesterday. We talked about the blog and how attorneys and clients can really take advantage of technology.
(We also talked about bar association activities; my public thanks to all the people on the various task forces and
Earlier today, I was fortunate to hear Second Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi speak at a Connecticut Bar Association Young Lawyers Section event as the 2009 Distringuished Speaker Award. He can weave a great story and mixed telling us tales of his interactions between Justices Sotomayor and Roberts, and of working for a United States Supreme Court
With the local economy suffering the effects of the economic recession, the prevailing wisdom of experts has been that the number of discrimination claims filed would continue to skyrocket. However, as I’ve pointed out before, we just haven’t seen that trend in Connecticut play out.
New data just released by the Connecticut Commission
Since Attorney General Eric Holder took over the U.S. Department of Justice, there’s been some question as to what the strategy would be for the Civil Rights Division.
Today’s New York Times gives the answer — Renewed Enforcement on all sorts of discrimination laws, including the laws affecting the workplace:
As part of this shift,
It’s the stuff of television shows.
In the middle of trial, a plaintiff (who is claiming his employment was terminated, among other reasons, in retaliation of his exercise of FMLA rights) drops a bombshell:
[In the prior October], I learned that I had — have stage III prostate cancer with a metastatic brain lesion."
While
With the dog days of summer in full force here in Connecticut ("it’s the heat AND the humidity"), it seemed an appropriate time to roll out another installment of the "Quick Hits" feature to touch on a few items you might have missed over the last week or so:
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Over 100 people packed the Grand Courtroom of the Quinnipiac University School of Law last night 
to hear a panel presentation and discussion on the Ricci v. DeStefano case decided earlier this year by the United States Supreme Court.
The event, sponsored, in part by the Young Lawyers Section of the Connecticut Bar Association