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Correspondence exchanged between public officers and agencies and private consultants are within the ambit of the Freedom of Information Law

3 May 2018, 3:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

" The City contended that such documents fell within the statutory exemption for inter-agency and intra-agency materials under FOIL, citing Public Officers Law §87[2][g]. [read post]

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

Hobby Lobby Part XI -- Governor Brewer’s Veto in Arizona . . . and Hobby Lobby

12 Mar 2014, 4:39 pm by Marty Lederman

” A unanimous Court put the point this way in Lee, in 1982: “When followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of conscience and faith are not to be superimposed on the statutory schemes which are binding on others in that activity,” at least where “[g]ranting an exemption . . . to an employer operates to impose the employer’s religious faith on the… [read post]

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Local police officers in New York State require a warrant to arrest an immigrant solely to transfer custody to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities

15 Nov 2018, 10:30 pm by Public Employment Law Press

Kapsalis of counsel), for respondent.Matthew G. [read post]

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

[Orin Kerr] Eleventh Circuit Creates Circuit Split on Cell Phone Border Searches

23 May 2018, 12:34 pm by Orin Kerr

Even though the Supreme Court has declined to decide "what level of suspicion, if any, is required for [such] nonroutine border searches [of a person]," Montoya de Hernandez, 473 U.S. at 541 n.4, we have required reasonable suspicion for "a strip search or an x-ray examination," Alfaro-Moncada, 607 F.3d at 729. [read post]

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

New grant about calculating child support in divorce; seven cases decided with opinions [May 7, 2010]

7 May 2010, 9:37 am by Don Cruse

Hernandez, reversing remanding to the court of appeals to consider the appeal. [read post]

The Supreme Court of Texas blog - http://www.scotxblog.com

S.D.N.Y.: Existence of Arbitration Agreements for Some (Not All) Employees in Putative Class, Irrelevant re “Similarly Situated” Inquiry at Stage I

6 Jan 2014, 7:26 am by Andrew Frisch

” Hernandez v. [read post]

Overtime Law Blog - http://flsaovertimelaw.com/

Argument analysis: Justices revisit immigration notice provision, parsing statutory text while urging practical solutions

10 Nov 2020, 7:52 pm by Jayesh Rathod

Zimmer cited the board’s “unexplained change of position” in Mendoza-Hernandez, arguing that it disregarded the statutory text and history and provided no opportunity for public input. [read post]

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

In re BRCA1- and BRCA2-Based Hereditary Cancer Test Patent Lit.: Couterpart Claims of those In Myriad Also Invalidated under 101.

26 Dec 2014, 10:03 pm

Even if Myriad made a “[g]roundbreaking, innovative, or even brilliant discov- ery,” id. at 2117, that is not enough. [read post]

Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society - http://jptos.org

Fleming v. Escort Inc.: Determining the Sufficiency of Testimony

2 Feb 2015, 9:54 pm

Category: Civil Procedure By: Jesus Hernandez, Blog Editor/Contributor TitleFleming v. [read post]

Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society - http://jptos.org

Golden Bridge Tech. v. Apple: Patentee doomed by Proposed Narrowing Construction during Prosecution, and Waiver of Alternate Arguments during Litigation

15 Jul 2014, 6:36 am

Omega Eng’g, Inc. v. [read post]