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Court Overturns Judgment Against Rite Aid Over Pharmacist's Fear of Needles
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
A federal appeals court reversed a $1.8 million judgment against Rite Aid, concluding the company lawfully fired a pharmacist who was too afraid of needles to...
Tortured Immigrant's Asylum Claim Revived
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
A federal appeals court has given a Salvadoran refugee another chance at asylum in the United States, but it will depend on a technical question about when he...
Court Upholds Anti-Puppy Mill Laws
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
New York City has more cats and dogs than most American cities have people, and that's the problem. The city has to deal with about one million dogs and cats...
Fax to Doctors May Violate Law Against Junk Faxes
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
There's no such thing as a free lunch and apparently no free dinners either -- at least not unsolicited fax invitations for dinner and a business show. The...
Deadlocked 2nd Cir Denies En Banc Rehearing in Overseas Data Case
By Casey C. Sullivan, Esq. | Last updated on
Last summer, a three-judge Second Circuit panel ruled that the U.S. government could not force Microsoft to turn over email data stored on overseas servers....
Court Confronts Sexual Orientation at Work
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
The courts are in a delicate situation when it comes to discrimination based on sexual orientation in the workplace. "It's not about sex per se -- it doesn't...
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