The National Labor Relations Board hears complaints regarding union members. But, it also has jurisdiction over complaints by non-union member who discuss conditions and terms of employment. Early in February, Pres. Trump fired the Chairman of the NLRB, Gwynne Wilcox. I wrote about that odd termination here. It was clearly an unlawful termination. The
On Saturday afternoon, Pres. Musk sent an email to all or many Federal workers. His first email said all employees will receive an email soon. Failure to respond to that email will be seen as a resignation. Then came a second email asking all Federal employees to reply with a description of what they accomplished
Pres. Trump issued an executive Order which forbids “illegal DEI.” Executive orders only have binding, legal effect for the Executive branch of the U.S. government. But, EO’s often have general influence throughout American society. What is or what might be “illegal DEI”? That phrase likely stems from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Students for
I first wrote about attacks on judges in 2011 and 2012. Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the U.S. House, even joined in on attacks on Judge Fred Biery in San Antonio. That was in 2011 and 2012. See those posts here. Those attacks have continued. Candidate and later Pres. Trump has now raised attacks
I previously wrote about the potential effect of Project 2025 on the private sector workforce here. But, what about the Federal workforce? Well, looking at the book’s discussion of the Federal workforce, we enter the bizarro world of right-wing politics.
Right off the bat, the book claims that today, Federal workers are not held
Those of us who practice within the boundaries of the Fifth Circuit (Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi) have known for some time that the Fifth Circuit has become the most aggressively conservative appellate court in the country. In fact, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, that was an appeal from a
Twitter, now known as “X” has provided an avenue for many people to communicate with the wider world. But, too much communication can be a bad thing. Attorney Darlene Jackson in Washington, D.C. learned that lesson the hard way. Attorney Jackson filed suit on behalf of a passenger of the D.C. train in 2015. The
As litigators, we are often called on to summarize facts in one way or another. On appeal, we must summarize the facts of a trial below. What happens when we slant those facts? Good advocacy requires that we slant facts to some degree. But, if we go too far, then we have committed a deception
There are few more sensitive issues in litigation than asking a Judge to recuse him/herself. No Judge believes he bears any bias that would affect his rulings. But, in very rare situations, litigants will have to file the appropriate motion. Do not do it the way Alina Habba did it. Ms. Habba responded to one
Barry Oliphint worked for Jacobs Engineering for seven years. Mr. Oliphint had a major argument with his supervisor about performing an inspection early. The supervisor and Oliphint agreed Oliphint would resign. But, when Mr. Oliphint started looking for a new job, one interviewer told him he had lied about resigning. It turned out that Jacobs