June 2009

 Judge Kent decided to resign, after all.   Apparently, he decided resignation was safer than impeachment.  Judge Kent, you will recall, was essentially found guilty of sexually harassing his court staff.   I discussed his case a couple of times before.  

 The better clients come to see me with documents in hand, sometimes boxes and boxes of documents.  This is the client who wants to be prepared, who seeks to have some control over the outcome of a potential lawsuit.  Some, some very few, will come see me with documents they obtained from their employer.  Is…

 You’re a waiter.  Do you split your tips with the bussers?  How about with shift supervisors?  In a recent decision, the California appeals court found that the public expects the tips collected in a tip jar at Starbucks would be split with the shift supervisors.  I don’t know what I expect when I leave…

 In a recent decision, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals found in favor of an employee (plaintiff).  EEOC v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLP.  For the 5th Circuit to find for a plaintiff employee is very rare. For example, in a study completed a few years ago, the researchers, found that discrimination case…

Discrimination exists.  It happens all the time even now in 2009.  When I first started doing discrimination cases in the 1990’s, some folks would tell me they did not believe discrimination still existed.  But,  as I recall, it was mostly Anglo folks suggesting that. 

A few years later in one of my Army Reserve courses…