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Judge orders civility lessons for asbestos attorneys
deBruin WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Delaware Superior Court Judge Peggy L. Ableman ordered two opposing lawyers in asbestos litigation to attend a mandatory civility course over the Labor Day weekend.
Worker takes on labor union with NLRB complaint
A Tyson Foods employee at a Wisconsin meat processing plant filed a complaint against United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 538 officials after the union allegedly threatened to retaliate against him for exercising his rights to refrain from full-dues-paying union membership.
Card check ruling reverses secret ballot
Becker The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Aug. 30 reversed a 2007 ruling which allowed 30 percent of a company's employees, or another union, to immediately challenge a card check union organizing campaign with a secret ballot vote.
NLRB to implement new notification rules
Chavez The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will implement new notification rules of employee rights in the workplace. The new rules require that employers post information about employee rights online and in the workplace.
Philadelphia's Anapol Schwartz takes on NFL
Former Bears' and Eagles' QB Jim McMahon PHILADELPHIA - It seems the Eagles aren't the only team in town ready for some NFL action. The lawyers of Anapol, Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Feldman and Smalley have taken on the National Football League in federal court.
Public unions should be curbed, says right to work defender
La Jeunesse Should public sector unions be curbed? Is it time to end the ability of governmental employees to form unions?
Environmental justice agreement over-regulates, critic says
Jackson An Aug. 4 agreement among federal agencies to provide environmental justice to communities overburdened by pollution is merely another attempt to over-regulate and control the free-market, opponents say.
Hartley: Asbestos tort and trust systems should be cooperating
Hartley With approximately $30 billion collectively held in asbestos bankruptcy trusts, tension with the tort system continues.
Federalist Society holds annual review of 2010 Supreme Court term
Clement PHILADELPHIA - Free speech, attorney's fees and preemption cases topped a Federalist Society's annual review of the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court term.
Hold: Asbestos conference
Trust or tort, which system do you use if you are a representing a claimant in an asbestos case. Should the two systems be coordinated?
Hold: Illinois courts remain a problem
The litigious nature of the state of Illinois is such that one could rightfully ask, "What would Abraham Lincoln say?" Certain jurisdictions in the state have been described by tort reformers as "judicial hellholes."
AAJ holding summer conference in NYC July 9-13
Begala The American Assocation of Justice is holding its summer conference in New York City this year from July 9 to 13.
Does Cy Pres Have a Future?
Frank Some have described the cy pres doctrine, as applied to civil litigation, as a slush fund.
Largesse or license - cy pres a weapon of class warfare?
Burbank When a court orders cy pres awards to be distributed to charities or other unrelated nonprofit organizations, is the court being charitable or licentious with these unclaimed funds from class action suits?
Class action cy pres awards give judges a slush fund, critic argues
Judge Richard Posner calls cy pres awards "purely punitive." The use of unclaimed funds from class action settlements to fund non-profit organizations is a common legal practice.