Saturday, July 1, 2017
- MHRC: Posting describes how the government shutdown will affect various issues in pending cases, new complaints, and intake questionnaires
- US Supreme Court: State law is unconstitutional that generally requires the name of a mother’s male spouse to appear on a child’s birth certificate–regardless of his biological relationship to the child–but does not extend that rule to similarly situated same-sex couples
- US Supreme Court (SCOTUSBlog): Cert granted in case that will decide the following issue presented: Whether the anti-retaliation provision for “whistleblowers” in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 extends to individuals who have not reported alleged misconduct to the Securities and Exchange Commission and thus fall outside the act’s definition of “whistleblower”
- US Supreme Court (via SCOTUSBlog): Cert granted in case that will decide the following issue presented: Whether applying Colorado’s public accommodations law to compel the petitioner to create expression that violates his sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage violates the free speech or free exercise clauses of the First Amendment
- Law Court: Summary judgment granted for defendant on auto negligence claim arising out of crash after defendant waived plaintiff across traffic because, although plaintiff may have relied on defendant’s gesture to pull across traffic, he made an independent, albeit flawed, assessment of the traffic conditions before turning and did not rely on the gesture when making the turn
- Law Court: Trial court did not err in failing to reduce judgment against second defendant by amount of settlement between plaintiff and first defendant where the injury addressed in the settlement went beyond that for which the court held second defendant liable
- First Circuit: The court affirmed $140,000 Fourth Amendment excessive force verdict, finding trial court did not err in denying defendant qualified immunity
- First Circuit: Summary judgment for employer on sex discrimination claim affirmed where plaintiff failed to show legitimate, nondiscriminatory explanation for the hiring decisions at issue was pretext for unlawful discrimination
- Eighth Circuit: The court held that state law disability employment discrimination claims were not completely preempted by § 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act or § 9(a) of the National Labor Relations Act
- Maine Supreme Court: List posted of courts that will be open and closed during shutdown
- Maine DOL: Shutdown procedures posted
