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Pertinent Litigation

12/24/09Supreme Court to Review Text Message Privacy Case
12/24/09Independent Contractors Permitted to Sue
12/23/09Friends Without Borders: State Off-Duty Conduct Laws and Facebook-Friending Policies
12/23/09EEOC Sues YRC, Inc. / Yellow Transportation For Widespread Race Discrimination At Chicago
12/16/09Text-Message Case Could Redefine Workplace Privacy
12/16/09Albertsons to pay $8.9M in Colorado bias lawsuits
12/08/09Wal-Mart will pay $40m to workers
12/08/092009 U.S. Supreme Court Labor & Employment Cases - Reverse Discrimination Ricci v. DeStefano
11/10/09Employer's Return-to-Work Evaluation Found Unlawful "Medical Exam" under ADA, Ninth Circuit Rules
10/22/09Congress Introduces Legislation to Overturn Supreme Court Age Discrimination Decision
10/22/09Federal Appeals Court Allows Homosexual Employee's Title VII Gender Stereotyping Case to Proceed
10/22/09Third Circuit Holds Claim Timely under Ledbetter Act
10/22/09Court: Texas company unfair to black workers
10/8/09DHS Rescinds No-Match Rule: Ball is in SSA's Court
10/8/09Democrats Working to Overturn Justices on Age Bias
7/13/09ADA's Interactive Process May Require Plaintiff to Identify Open Position for Transfer
6/02/09Hurdles remain in Obama's push to revamp health care
6/02/09Hot Topics In Labor And Employment Law
5/29/09Argument for the "Opposition": The Supreme Court Clarifies Employees' "Opposition" as Protected Activity
5/26/09Eight states top 10% jobless rate
5/20/09Inside jobs: Texas car dealers hit for $750K in phony-employee-ID-theft scam
5/20/09Companies Want to Monitor Workers on Social Networks
5/20/09Legal Alert: DOL's 2010 Budget Calls for an Increase in Enforcement Funding
5/18/09Unions call out "star power"
5/18/09Andy Stern's Go-To Guy
5/18/09The 25 Golden Rules of E-Mail
5/13/09Piercing Through The "Body Art" Issue
5/13/09Employers: "Keep Out!" Beware intruding in employee web sites
4/26/09Unfair Competition - Another Step Forward In The Enforcement of Noncompetes
4/16/09New Special Enrollment Rights Under Group Health Plans Effective April 1, 2009
3/26/09GM’s UAW Buyout Is Said to Exceed 6,000 U.S. Workers