Legal Updates
John Gause monitors what’s happening in employment discrimination, civil rights, and tort law. He shares some of what he finds on this page.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
- Bangor Daily: Mother seeks answers about alleged improper behavior by staffer with her autistic son at Rockland school
- Other Blogs: Seyfarth Shaw: New Department of Transportation Website and Kiosk Regulations Provide Insight into Forthcoming Department of Justice Regulations for Public Accommodations
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
- Law Court: Decision in Bell v. Dawson (negligent supervision)
- Law Court: Several tort cases scheduled for oral argument during week of December 16, 2013
- Bangor Daily: Panel finds Maine Labor Department ‘vastly understaffed’ but no unemployment bias
- Press Herald: Panel: No bias in Maine unemployment claims dispute process
- Bangor Daily: Parents not obligated to ‘monitor sleep patterns at a teenage sleepover,’ Maine court rules in skateboard crash case
Monday, December 9, 2013
Friday, December 6, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
- Bangor Daily: Jewish ex-waitress who said Brewer restaurant owner called her a Nazi settles lawsuit
- US Dept of Labor: Maine stone-crushing plant to pay former miner to resolve US Labor Department retaliation charge
- Press Herald: Maine town sued in shooting death of Army veteran
- Findings and Recommendations of the Unemployment Reform Blue Ribbon Commission
- Law Court: Oral argument audio in Hickson v. Vescom (Whistleblower case)
- Law Court: Oral argument audio in Bratton v. McDonough (lead poisoning)
- First Circuit: Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Amendments Effective December 1, 2013
- First Circuit: Increase to the Appellate Filing Fee and Other Miscellaneous Fee Changes Effective December 1, 2013
