Tag Archives: US Supreme Court

While Arizona has come down hard on undocumented immigrant workers, its sister state, California, is giving some immigrants new rights – if they’re young enough. California Governor Jerry Brown signed one bill into law on September 30 – AB2189, which allows the state Department of Motor Vehicles to issue driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants who qualify for a separate federal program instituted in August by the Obama administration.   Help for Young, Acclimated Workers… The federal program, Deferred Action for …

The baby boom generation is aging and people are living longer, healthier lives, which means more and more grandparents are active participants in their grandchildren’s lives. They are also learning that they can pursue visitation rights when divorce or family dysfunction results in their being cut off from their grandchildren. Some grandparents need to be very persistent in order to successfully secure these rights. In a recent case in Wisconsin, for example, a couple spent two years and thousands of …

Record numbers of workers are standing up for their rights when it comes to being treated fairly on the job. Employees filed 7,064 lawsuits under the Fair Labor Standards Act as of March 2012, according to a survey released over the summer by Seyfarth Shaw, a law firm that represents employers. FLSA cases totaled 7,006 for the entire year of 2011, – about the same as only the first three months of 2012, according to the survey. Ten years ago, …

Ruling that religious organizations have the right to hire and fire employees who perform religious duties based on any criteria they choose, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld an appellate court decision in a case involving Cheryl Perich, a teacher at Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School in Redford, MI, who was fired after she received a narcolepsy diagnosis. Perich, who taught religious as well as secular classes and periodically led chapel services, argued that the church’s action …

The US Supreme Court will review a Florida case where a drug-sniffing dog outside a person’s house detected the presence of illegal drugs inside. The lower courts threw out the evidence. The case started with a call to a local “crime stoppers” hotline that Joelis Jardines’s house was being used as a greenhouse for marijuana. Following Franky’s Nose The Miami-Dade Police Department received the hotline call on November 3, 2006. A month later, the police along with other state and …