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Workers & Their Families
In New Jersey, state and federal laws protect workers from sexual harassment. This is not a new development. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits sex discrimination. Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination and has been prohibited for more than...
An Employment and Civil Rights Trial Lawyer Discusses Women's Health and Trial LawyersThis is another in my "what would life be like without trial lawyers?" (and jury trials) series. Glad everyone is enjoying it.The Pharmaceutical Industry has marketed estrogen...
Or . . . You Can't Fix What Isn't Broken - Redux. New Jersey Employment and Civil Rights Trial Lawyer Kevin Costello Discusses 3d Circuit's Upholding of New Jersey's Ban on 'Gay-Conversion' Therapy I posted a Blog in December of last year which followed on a Blog of...
Or . . . The Only Real Natural Philosophy.First of all, all words that describe a state of mind - a creed or belief system or a personal or broad based philosophy - change over time. Even the nature of the language itself changes, so why should it be a surprise that a...
by Dan T. Silverman, Esquire; Costello & Mains During the pre-trial conference, one of the most significant battles that an attorney can wage is over how voir dire will be conducted. Voir dire is the process by which attorneys determine if potential jurors are fit...
"Or . . . Corporations still aren't people." A New Jersey Employment and Civil Rights Attorney Discusses: As a Constitutionally inclined and trained attorney, I'm never a big fan of Constitutional Amendments. The more you "tack on" ideas to a document as important as...
I find myself concerned about the recent article I read on Philly.com regarding Comcast and its lobbying efforts. Comcast seems to have a lot of time on their hands, and, according to the article, in 2013 they occupied that time by spending $18.8 million on lobbying...
Or... "This is why you can't investigate yourself."I know you're as shocked as I am - deeply, deeply shocked - that the law firm hired personally by Governor Christie, which was loyal to Governor Christie, and which was paid for by public funds at Governor Christie's...
Or... "This is why we have punitive damages."People who don't understand how the law works like to talk about how the law works. Most of those opinions are under-informed at best, and politically motivated and biased, at worst.But it doesn't stop people from having an...
A mother of a murdered son, the daughter of a murdered father, had to stand before a congregation and thank them for their support. The son, Reat Underwood, was a high school freshman, 14. Also murdered was Teresa Lamanno. These people were killed on April 14th by...
