Kate Rogers was fired a year ago for comments in her dissertation. See my post about that termination here. It was clear from the get-go that she was fired in violation of her First Amendment and free speech rights. She filed suit and her case is now progressing. You would think at this point
We often hear about the Magna Carta and how that great document eventually led to our Declaration of Independence. But, what was the Magna Carta all about? In 2015, San Antonio’s own Prof. Vincent R. Johnson at St. Mary’s Law School wrote a nice piece about the Magna Carta. He explained in his article what
When I first started practicing in the Western District of Texas (San Antonio, Austin, El Paso), the courts were overwhelmed by the war on drugs. The war on drugs cranked up in the 1980s and continued through the 1990s. But, the explosion of cases due to immigrants seeking bail is even bigger. In July, 2025
I talked about this case last September. See prior blog post here. Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935) was decided 90 years ago. It stands for the proposition that the board members of some Federal agencies can be removed only for cause. The Humphrey’s decision specifically found that some governmental functions
A recurring issue in retaliation lawsuits concerns the temporal connection between opposing discriminatory practices and the resulting discrimination. Fifth Circuit precedence suggests that a temporal connection alone that extends over four months is too long to infer a connection. That tension is vividly demonstrated in Stamps v. University of Texas System, No. 24-CV-00249 (W.D.
Upon assuming office, Pres. Trump has been on a tear. He fired a member of the NLRB commission and its general counsel, both appointed by former Pres. Biden. Trunp fired Gwynne Wilcox, saying she was “far left” with a “radical record.” Long-time practice had been that the Democrat and Republican members of the Board would
In a Harris Poll survey a few years ago, researchers found that 20% of hiring managers have asked unlawful questions in interviews. They asked these unlawful questions not realizing at the time that such questions could lead to legal liability. CareerBuilder commissioned the survey. A CareerBuilder representative said an interviewee who is asked these sorts
The nine pro-Trump lawyers from the Detroit election lawsuit have been sanctioned. I previously wrote about these sanctions here. In a court of appeals decision, the Sixth Circuit found that the lawyers, Sidney Powell and others, had lodged a “whole raft” of baseless claims alleging hostile foreign governments had accessed Dominion voting machines.
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A little known fact is that many defense lawyers who practice employment law are actually political moderates. Many of my defense lawyer friends actually were appalled by former Pres. Trump. But, not all. Two lawyers resigned from the mega firm, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith in Los Angeles to start a new law firm that
One thing you do not do in court is lie to the judge. Telling a fib in a deposition is tantamount to lying to the Judge. Swearing to a falsehood in a statement is a lie in any court. Any party litigant must write this rule on his/her forehead: do not lie in any court