Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-10 of 278

Education law monthly

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
-
USA
-
January 7 2009

On December 29, 2008, the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia granted a preliminary injunction on behalf of public school teachers and other school employees to prevent the implementation of a random drug testing policy

Workplace txt msg decision stands - 9th Circuit denies Quon rehearing

Hogan Lovells
-
USA
-
February 3 2009

In June 2008, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled that the City of Ontario had violated police officers' reasonable expectation of privacy by reviewing text messages sent on city-issued devices without notifying the police officers in question

Supreme Court upholds state’s right to limit union’s use of non-member fees for political purposes

Wiley Rein LLP
-
USA
-
July 11 2007

On June 14, 2007, the United States Supreme Court unanimously upheld a Washington state law requiring public employee unions to obtain consent from non-members before using their fees for election-related activities in the case of Davenport v. Washington Educational Association, 2007 WL 1703022 (June 14, 2007

Unnecessarily broad background checks halted as an invasion of privacy

Fenwick & West LLP
-
USA
-
February 8 2008

The federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (San Francisco) has ruled that the government may not conduct broad background checks of low-level contract workers who do not work with classified material

Statute of limitations on teacher’s discrimination claim begins to run on date plaintiff received notice of reduction in force

Ogletree Deakins
-
USA
-
August 1 2008

Here, the Appellate Division affirmed the State Board of Education’s determination that a non-tenured teacher’s discrimination claim was barred by the statute of limitations, where the teacher received notice that her contract would not be renewed due to a RIF, but did not file a discrimination claim until after the 90-day limitations period expired

Rescinding employment benefit extended only to employees with military obligations does not violate the USERRA

Ogletree Deakins
-
USA
-
June 8 2009

The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) protects members of the armed services against employment discrimination related to the benefits of their employment

Ohio Supreme Court upholds general ban on residency restrictions for public employees

Squire Sanders
-
USA
-
June 22 2009

The Ohio Supreme Court, in Lima v State, 2009-Ohio-2597, has held 5-2 that a state law prohibiting general residency requirements for public employees is valid and supersedes local laws to the contrary

The United States Supreme Court rules that white firefighters were unfairly denied promotions because of their race

Roetzel & Andress
-
USA
-
October 15 2009

On June 29, 2009, the United States Supreme Court considered whether an employer can engage in intentional discrimination for the asserted purpose of avoiding or remedying an unintentional, disparate impact

Replacing employee with younger, less experienced person is not always age discrimination

Ogletree Deakins
-
USA
-
October 22 2009

A public school music teacher who was replaced by a less experienced teacher eleven years her junior was unable to show that her age rather than her work-performance was the basis of the non-renewal of her contract

City's pre-employment drug testing unconstitutional

Fenwick & West LLP
-
USA
-
July 10 2008

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Lanier v. City of Woodburn that the City of Woodburn could not rescind an offer of employment to Janet Lanier because she declined to be tested under the City's pre-employment drug and alcohol screening policy

next >

Search results

Education law monthly

Workplace txt msg decision stands - 9th Circuit denies Quon rehearing

Supreme Court upholds state’s right to limit union’s use of non-member fees for political purposes

Unnecessarily broad background checks halted as an invasion of privacy

Statute of limitations on teacher’s discrimination claim begins to run on date plaintiff received notice of reduction in force

Rescinding employment benefit extended only to employees with military obligations does not violate the USERRA

Ohio Supreme Court upholds general ban on residency restrictions for public employees

The United States Supreme Court rules that white firefighters were unfairly denied promotions because of their race

Replacing employee with younger, less experienced person is not always age discrimination

City's pre-employment drug testing unconstitutional

Current Search

Suggested Facets

Author

Firm Name

Jurisdiction

Workarea