Search for: "West Virginia Human Rights Commission" Results 21 - 40 of 173
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
WVHRA waivers In seeking to ensure “knowing and voluntary” waivers of rights under the West Virginia Human Rights Act (WVHRA), the West Virginia Human Rights Commission (WVHRC) adopted the OWBPA’s approach with one notable and important difference: The OWBPA applies only to the release of employees’ age discrimination claims; the WVHRC’s regulations go much further than that. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 12:34 pm by Covington & Burling LLP
West Virginia  On January 18, 2024, a group of West Virginia House members introduced H.B. 4886, which would amend the state’s telemarketing statute to establish “a $1,000 civil administrative penalty, to be levied by the Department of Tax and Revenue, per instance when a phone company knowingly allows a telemarking campaign to call a resident of this state using a United States or West Virginia-based phone number, with no… [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 2:00 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Hacker, Ph.D., The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Speaker: Oliver Luck, West Virginia University’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics Speaker: Laurie Ristino, Vermont Law School Speaker: Jonathan Rosenbloom, Drake University Law School Speaker: Paul Shapiro, The Humane Society of the United States Moderator: Ani B. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 9:48 pm by Hugh Rennie
Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. [read post]
23 Jul 2019, 9:52 am
But the human dimension, so visceral to anyone who walks the streets of any city in the strip, is almost an afterthought, if a thought at all, to many who think of the place. [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal 2022 Primary Results: Alabama Senate runoff, D.C. and Virginia primaries CBS News – Fin Gómez and Aaron Navarro | Published: 6/21/2022 Virginia and the District of Columbia held primaries on June 21 and Georgia also held runoff elections, but perhaps the most closely watched race was the Alabama Republican U.S. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 4:43 pm by Colin O'Keefe
Cage Debate - Des Moines attorney David Nelmark of Belin McCormick on his Mixed Martial Arts Law Blog Criminal Record Discrimination: Lessons from Bryant - Toronto lawyer Lisa Stam on her blog, Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada Homeowner Flood Victims Told by Insurance Companies, Sorry You're SOL. - West Des Moines attorney Steve Lombardi on his blog, The Iowa Edict What's Next for Carbon Capture and Storage? [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 6:00 am by Mima Mohammed
A Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) investigation into the 2010 West Virginia mine explosion found Massey Energy managers pressured coal miners to omit important data from their records. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 3:19 pm by Tanya Greene, Center for Justice
(Note: the efforts to reinstate the death penalty in New Mexico and West Virginia have failed so far this year.) [read post]
19 Jan 2014, 5:58 pm by West Virginia Employment Law Letter
The Morgantown ordinances state that complaints will be referred to the West Virginia Human Rights Commission (WVHRC). [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 10:44 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
West Virginia's Senate unanimously passed SB 371, which emphasizes increased community supervision of probationers and parolees, discourages revocation for technical violations, and introduces risk assessment mechanisms that would enable, but not require, judges to make better informed decisions. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 3:30 pm by Benjamin Wittes
 Two great Jims among your number—former Chief Judge of the United States Army Court of Criminal Appeals and retired brigadier Jim Cullen and Akin-Gump Super Lawyer and former terrorism case prosecutor Jim Benjamin—provided me a list of topics that might be of interest to this audience, which I understand includes members of the Committees on Military Affairs and Justice, International Human Rights, and Criminal Law, as well as the Task Force on National Security… [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 12:00 am by Mima Mohammed
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection issued emergency rules to regulate fracking in the state until lawmakers can act, in response to Governor Earl Ray Tomblin’s executive order of July 2011. [read post]
9 Oct 2022, 9:04 pm by Eric W. Orts
Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and West Virginia v. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 5:31 am
The Federal Communications Act provides: `Any proceeding to enjoin, set aside, annul, or suspend any order of the Commission under this chapter . . . shall be brought as provided by and in the manner prescribed in [28 U.S. [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 11:53 am by Mary Anne Peck
Two states, Washington ( SB 5236 ) and West Virginia ( HB 2436 ), have enacted such measures. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 8:27 am by Venkat Balasubramani
West Virginia has an expressed policy on the humane treatment of animals, and Austin alleges she was fired for attempting to bring violations of this statute to light. [read post]