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Workers & Their Families
A federal district court judge sitting in Boston, Massachusetts has recently ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which establishes the federal government's definition of marriage as "between one man and one woman," is unconstitutional. The context of...
Here is what was recently published in the New Jersey Law Journal, authored by me, in response to a conservative attorney who continues to argue against civil equality by using reference to 'natural law' when she really means 'religious' law. But she knows better than...
The "L.W." case, in which a student was consistently bullied in school based upon sexual orientation but the school didn't stop it, has become black letter law in New Jersey. The decision was recent, only a few years back, but it certainly resulted in a lot of school...
We have three branches of government for a reason. They're supposed to stay separate and equal. The judiciary should not be weakened and subordinated to the political will of either of the other two branches. Governor Christie has recently made history in a couple of...
Every time I wonder if I'm becoming just a bit paranoid about the ability of government to intrude on our civil liberties and to further erode the Constitution, I'm reminded that just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. By the way, when I...
You've heard me blog on this before, despite the fact that I'm an employment lawyer, about the nonsense from the insurance industry on the medical malpractice 'crisis.' The insurance liars use doctors and nurses as unwitting pawns to spread lies about how "tort...
I know that I blogged about this before, but the situation is only getting worse because the mood in the country is only getting more paranoid, suspicious and self-interested. Agreements to arbitrate employment rights claims, as well as claims involving many other...
One of the most frustrating doctrines of law for attorneys representing victims in discrimination and harassment cases is called the "corporate veil," which is a way of colorfully describing the legal "barrier" that exists between a corporation on the one hand its...
The New Jersey Law against Discrimination (The "LAD") has been described as a "civil rights statute," one of the more far reaching employment statutes in the United States. The mandate from the legislature, consistently reaffirmed by our courts, is to interpret the...
As an attorney representing the rights of individuals rather than those of corporations, I can tell you that the "Journey to Justice" is slanted against the right of the individual; that it is seeded with landmines placed by corporate, banking, insurance, and vested...
