Judge Sotomayor’s resume is summarized by CNN and her most notable opinions are compiled by the New York Times. Judge Sotomayor’s most significant employment-related decision came in Ricci v. DeStefano which is now before the United States Supreme Court. Ricci is a discrimination case brought by white firefighters after the city threw out results of a
Lessons Learned from the almost Pandemic: 2009 Novel Influenza A H1N1 a/k/a Swine Flu
The swine flu is thankfully less severe than anticipated and certainly not the "pandemic" that was feared and even predicted. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports at least 5,469 cases of swine flu in the United States with Pennsylvania accounting for 55 cases. Six deaths are linked to the outbreak. The CDC continues
Healthy Families Act: Proposed Legislation Mandates Seven Days of Paid Time Off
Representative DeLauro introduced the Healthy Families Act (H.R. 2460) which would require businesses with 15 or more employees to provide up to seven days of annual paid sick leave. The paid leave could be taken to attend to an employee’s own or a family member’s illness, or used for preventative care such as
April Unemployment up to 8.9%
The Department of Labor released unemployment data on April’s unemployment rates. The unemployment rate rose to 8.9 percent, and the number of unemployed persons increased by 563,000 to 13.7 million in April. Over the past 12 months, the number of unemployed persons has risen by 6.0 million, and the unemployment rate has grown by 3.9 percentage points. The