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Mississippi Court Denies State Farm's Motion to Disqualify Dickie Scruggs and the Scruggs Katrina Group

24 Oct 2007, 2:52 am

., sitting in the federal district court in Mississippi, denied a motion filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Company to disqualify Richard ("Dickie") Scruggs, his law firm, and other attorneys and firms in the Scruggs Katrina Group from representing plaintiffs in the case of McIntosh v. [read post]

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Unsatisfactory rating voided because employee's "performance review," failed to comply with the employer's own procedures and thus undermined the integrity of the process Joyce v City of New York, 2018 NY Slip Op 03433, Appellate Division, First Department The Appellate Division annulled the determination of respondent New York City Department of Education [DOE] sustaining the "unsatisfactory" rating for the 2010-2011 academic year give to John Joyce, a tenured teacher. The court said that the record demonstrates "deficiencies in the performance review process" that resulted in Mr. Joyce being given an unsatisfactory rating for the 2010-2011 academic year. Citing Matter of Gumbs v Board of Educ. of the City Sch. Dist. of the City of N.Y., 125 AD3d 484, and Matter of Richards v Board of Educ. of the City Sch. Dist. of the City of N.Y., 117 AD3d 605, the Appellate Division noted that these deficiencies "were not merely technical, but undermined the integrity and fairness of the process." Mr. Joyce had received a satisfactory rating for the previous academic year and, in contravention of its own procedures, DOE failed to place him on notice that he was in danger of receiving an unsatisfactory rating for the 2010-2011 academic year until after April 28, 2011. Although DOE's procedures required that tenured teachers in danger of receiving an unsatisfactory rating have "formal observations including a pre-observation and post-observation conference by the principal ... as part of a prescriptive plan to improve their teaching," Mr. Joyce received only one formal observation which took place one week before the end of the academic year and was not part of a prescriptive plan to improve his performance as a teacher. The decision is posted on the Internet at: http://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2018/2018_03433.htm

30 May 2018, 4:37 am by Public Employment Law Press

Dist. of the City of N.Y., 125 AD3d 484, and Matter of Richards v Board of Educ. of the City Sch. [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Heppner on Rooted: Metaphors and Judicial Philosophy in Artis v. District of Columbia @RLHeppner @IndLRev

5 Oct 2022, 7:08 am

Richard L. [read post]

Law & Humanities Blog - https://lawlit.blogspot.com/

Heppner on Rooted: Metaphors and Judicial Philosophy in Artis v. District of Columbia @RLHeppner @IndLRev

5 Oct 2022, 7:08 am by Christine Corcos

Richard L. [read post]

Law and Humanities Blog - http://lawlit.blogspot.com/

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as received for Bradford Bank v. Arthur (Maryland U.S.D.C.)

14 Mar 2015, 1:46 pm

Filed: March 2, 2015Opinion by: Richard D. [read post]

Maryland Business Law Developments - http://marylandbusinesslawdevelopments.blogspot.com/

Hastings v. UC COL SF update

3 Jan 2023, 8:06 am

Hastings’ involvement in mass killings of Native Americans.Judge Richard B. [read post]

Southern California Appellate News - http://socal-appellate.blogspot.com/

Hasen on Gardner on Election Law, Dignity, Structure, and Individual Rights

7 Oct 2009, 8:48 am

Richard L. [read post]

Legal Theory Blog - http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/

Prof. Nagareda Posts Article on Litigation-Arbitration Dichotomy

19 Oct 2010, 9:53 am by A. Benjamin Spencer

In Shady Grove v. [read post]

Federal Civil Practice Bulletin - http://federalcivilpracticebulletin.blogspot.com/

Afternoon round-up: Today’s oral argument in Trump v. Hawaii

25 Apr 2018, 2:15 pm by Andrew Hamm

Today the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Trump v. [read post]

SCOTUSblog - http://www.scotusblog.com/

S&M Brands v. Caldwell

16 Feb 2011, 4:15 am by Ted Frank

As Daniel Fisher notes, one of the amicus briefs features the odd couple of Richard Epstein and Nader attorney Alan Morrison. [read post]

Point of Law Forum - http://www.pointoflaw.com/

The right book at the right time: Richard Albert on constitutional "adaptation"

20 Apr 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson

For the Symposium on Richard Albert, Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press, 2019). [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/