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"An employee's probationary appointment may be terminated without a hearing for any reason or no reason at all, so long as the termination was not in bad faith or for an improper or impermissible reason" (Matter of Messenger v State of New York Dept. of Corr. [read post]

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

Courts annul appointing authority's termination of a probationary employee finding that the appointing authority failed to demonstrate a legitimate, nondiscriminatory purpose for probationer's termination

6 Dec 2021, 5:30 am by Public Employment Law Press

"An employee's probationary appointment may be terminated without a hearing for any reason or no reason at all, so long as the termination was not in bad faith or for an improper or impermissible reason" (Matter of Messenger v State of New York Dept. of Corr. [read post]

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

[Josh Blackman] Originalism and Textualism in the Lower Courts: Judge Ho's Concurrence in Homeland Insurance Co.

6 Dec 2021, 5:30 am by Josh Blackman

The case involved a fairly complicated, and long-running dispute against the insurance company. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

"I remember that day well" — the day Roe was decided — "because it was also the day when former president Lyndon B. Johnson died."

30 Nov 2021, 7:41 am

Johnson was indeed a towering figure, but he’d been long out of office and had to die at some point anyway. [read post]

Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/

ADA and FHA Quick Hits – Wild Turkey edition.

20 Nov 2021, 7:29 am by Richard Hunt

Conventional wisdom has long been that District Courts in the Second Circuit will hold that stand-alone websites are covered by the ADA. [read post]

Accessibility Defense - http://accessdefense.com

Affirmative Action Plans—A Potentially Important Safeguard for Race-Based Grantmaking

16 Nov 2021, 8:00 am by Danica Hoff

Weber, 443 U.S. 193 (1979), Johnson v. [read post]

Nonprofit Law Blog - http://www.nonprofitlawblog.com/

Stop-and-Fingerprint Can’t Become the Next Stop-and-Frisk

9 Nov 2021, 11:34 am by Dan Korobkin

VanderKooi and Johnson v. [read post]

ACLU News & Commentary - https://www.aclu.org/news/

[Eugene Volokh] Fourth Circuit Affirms: No Heckler's Veto; Fear of Violent Reaction to Speakers' Views Can't Justify …

3 Nov 2021, 6:39 pm by Eugene Volokh

" Berger v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

[Eugene Volokh] May Beauty Pageants Limit Themselves to "Natural Born Women"?

1 Nov 2021, 11:14 am by Eugene Volokh

See e.g., Boy Scouts of America v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Law and Media Round Up – 1 November 2021

31 Oct 2021, 5:45 pm by INFORRM

Article 23 of the GDPR permits EU Member States to impose restrictions on data subject rights as long as the restrictions respect the essence of the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, and are necessary and proportionate measures in a democratic society to safeguard, for example, national security, defence or public security. [read post]

Inforrm's Blog - https://inforrm.wordpress.com/

The CAFC gets into beer making and trademarks in the Brooklyn Brewery case: standing, inevitable confusion, and more

27 Oct 2021, 8:30 am by Lawrence B. Ebert

Johnson Chem. [read post]

IPBiz - http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/

13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

25 Oct 2021, 1:31 pm by Aaron Moss

The case is New Line Cinema v. [read post]

Copyright Lately - https://copyrightlately.com/

Texting in the car, surveillance of a home, and Section 1983 for Miranda

22 Oct 2021, 2:29 pm by Andrew Hamm

Johnson v. [read post]