NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Feds Prepare to Settle Mutilated Currency Forfeiture Case • Senate Confirms First Openly Gay Appeals Judge • Bank of America Ordered to Pay $2.2M for Hiring Discrimination • In 2011 Death, Family Sues Downtown D.C. Restaurants, Bars • Former Mayor Fenty Joins Perkins Coie • Leahy Calls for Overhaul of Intelligence Oversight The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to settle a civil forfeiture dispute over more than $4.2 million in mutilated currency that agents seized last year in an international money laundering investigation, a prosecutor told a judge this afternoon. In court... Read More » Todd Hughes, a career U.S. Department of Justice staff attorney, was confirmed today as the first openly gay federal appellate court judge. The Senate voted 98-0 to confirm Hughes to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Bloomberg BNA FREE REPORT: It's 9:00 a.m. Do You Know Where your Employees Are? The Legal Implications of Telecommuting.
Bloomberg BNA's report, It's 9:00 a.m. Do You Know Where your Employees Are?, provides employers with an expert's perspective into the legal issues they must consider as they contemplate telecommuting policies, along with practical guidance based on recent case decisions. From considerations including ADA and reasonable accommodation to issues of wage and hour, workplace safety and data security, this report clearly outlines factors to consider as employers communicate telecommuting policies and provides actionable steps to successfully implement and benefit from this expanding workforce trend. Download Now. | After nearly two decades fighting government allegations that it discriminated against African American job seekers, Bank of America Corp. was ordered by an administrative law judge at the Department of Labor to pay nearly $2.2 million in back wages and... Read More » Following a confrontation that began inside a downtown McDonald's in 2011, Patrick Casey was knocked down and died of a head injury. Yesterday, Casey's family filed a civil wrongful death lawsuit against three men—as well as... Read More » Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has joined Perkins Coie's business development department in the Palo Alto, Calif. office. Fenty, the mayor of Washington from 2007 to 2011, was previously special counsel at Klores Perry Mitchell, a litigation firm in Washington.... Read More » The first vote that U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) cast after entering the Senate in 1975 was to create the Church Committee to investigate abuses by the FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies. "More than 38 years... Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES | 
No comments:
Post a Comment