I hope everyone’s new year is off to a fabulous start. Congratulations to Ohio State for winning the NCAA FBS championship.
Today’s blog entry deals with whether a temporary disability can be a disability under the ADA. The answer is most certainly yes. There is also some other good stuff to cover as well
I hope everyone that celebrated had a good new year season. Wishing all of those a happy new year. In other news, early election voting is underway in many states. My family voted yesterday. Be sure to vote for the candidate of your choice.
Today’s blog entry returns to a long-standing interest of mine.
Today’s blog entry is going to be a short one. One of the issues we have discussed quite a bit in a variety of contexts is sovereign immunity. What happens when the claim is retaliation and sovereign immunity is involved? Does sovereign immunity get forcibly waived in that situation? A case answering this question is
My thoughts go out to everyone in the Houston area and in Texas dealing with the aftermath of hurricane Beryl.
The blog entry of the day is about a case that came to me from Anne Cullen, a reporter with law 360. She wrote an excellent article on it, here (subscription required). The case
Today’s blog entry is one of those situations where I read a case and asked myself whether the court could have gotten to the same place more elegantly than the way it did. The case of the day is Bruno v. Chasity Wells-Armstrong, here, decided by the Seventh Circuit on February 23, 2024. As
Normally, as you all know, I don’t blog on more than one case in a week. However, I will be out of town the first part of next week, and I generally prefer to get blog entries up at the beginning of the week. I am also headed out of town the following week as
I hope those that celebrated had a happy Hanukkah. Merry Christmas, happy new year, and happy holidays to everyone.
Today’s blog entry is my top 11 or so for the year. As is my past practice, I have included important blog entries that do not make the list . Most of those though were
Picture: A glock pistol, set against a dark background, standing up with barrel pointed down on a brown hardwood floor with its magazine lying next to it.
This blog entry will be the last substantive blog entry of the year. The next blog entry for the calendar year will be my greatest hits and other
At least once a month, I get a phone call where a judge is treating a person with a disability in their courtroom in a hostile way. The person always wants to know what can be done about it and whether judges are allowed to do that. I have talked before going after the judiciary
Yesterday was 9/11 and certainly thinking of everyone. Also, I appreciate everyone bearing with me on my two week hiatus while my wife and I were abroad. We came back Friday and back to the grind now.
Today’s case is an unpublished decision. Lee v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc., from the Ninth Circuit decided August