December 23, 2009 - Attorney David Blanchard filed a motion and brief in support of an Ann Arbor man who was arrested during an unconstitutional “sweep” for homeless persons living on state lands. To read the documents and learn more, please visit the ACLU of Michigan website.
Kalamazoo joins other Michigan cities in passing Non-Discrimination Ordinance!
Congratulations to Kalamazoo on the passage of Ordinance 1856 which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing, and places of public accommodation. With passage of 1856, Kalamazoo joins nearly 20 other Michigan municipalities, such as Detroit, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Ferndale, East Lansing, and Grand Rapids, that have passed non-discrimination ordinances that outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation. Read More.
Legislative Update - January 29, 2009
January 29, 2009 - President Obama signs the so called "Ledbetter Fix" into law. As the first piece of legislation signed by the newly elected president, Barack Obama has signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. The Act restores the state of the law prior to the Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear. Read more.
Attorney Salvatore Settles Sex Harassment Case Against CMU Soccer Coach
Central Michigan University this week paid a total $450,000 to settle sex harassment claims and avoid potential lawsuits by two former players on the women's soccer team. The two former players were represented by Nacht & Associates Partner Jennifer Salvatore. The players came forward late last year with allegations that the team's male coach had used his position to pursue inappropriate sexual relationships with the players. Read more.
Attorney Salvatore Files Suit against Strip Club in Underage Dancer's Death
Nacht & Associates Attorney Jennifer Salvatore has filed a multi-million dollar wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the estate of an underage stripper. The lawsuit against Lincoln Park strip club Atlantis alleges that the club knowingly illegally hired an underage girl to work as an exotic dancer. The young girl was only 17 years old. Her first night of work turned deadly when club patrons provided her with a lethal dose of drugs. Read more.
Attorney Jennifer B. Salvatore Comments on Aggressive Subpoena tactics by Employment Defense Firms
Jennifer B. Salvatore was quoted in a recent National Law Journal article titled "Subpoena tactic in work suits draws fire." The piece discussed a recent decision by a federal judge in New York to prevent the issuing of subpoenas to future or potential employers of the plaintiffs until less intrusive ways to gather the needed information fail. Read more.
Michigan Lawyers Weekly has named Nacht & Associates to its 21st Century Club - August 8, 2008
Michigan Lawyer's Weekly has named Nacht & Associates to its "21st Century Club." The Ann Arbor based Firm will be named in Monday's edition of the paper among twenty-one Michigan law firms to be honored for their innovative thinking in attracting and retaining talented young attorneys. Read more.
Washtenaw County Legal News article on Jennifer Salvatore and FRD, November 1, 2007
Jennifer Salvatore, a partner at Nacht and Associates, opened Bias Awareness Week with a luncheon discussion of family responsibilities discrimination (FRD) on Oct. 22. Read More.
South Lyon Herald coverage of landlord-tenant dispute on September 27, 2007
Megg Brigmon, owner of Little Monkeys Boutique, a children's clothing consignment store in downtown South Lyon, found herself forced to conduct business on the sidewalk in front of the store last Thursday. Read more.
Article covering a wrongful discharge in Business Week on September 25, 2006
It was the Fall of 2002, and Sharon Spangler was thriving professionally: At age 44, after two decades at what is now DaimlerChrysler (PCX), she was earning $110,000 a year as an engineering supervisor for the Jeep brand. No one at work, or anywhere else, knew that her troubled marriage had turned violent. Then on Nov. 20, a week into a medical leave, she killed her husband and was charged with premeditated murder. Read more.
Michigan Bar Journal piece by Jennifer Salvatore in August 2007
Last year, The New York Times asked, once again, the million dollar question: Why Are Women Leaving Big Law Firms?1 The article explored the issues that women lawyers and, more recently, big firms interested in retaining them, have been debating in diversity seminars, panel discussions, and informal lunchtime chatter for the last decade. Read more.
Employees Beware of 180-Day Limitation - May 30, 2007
Although the full implications of the 5-to-4 decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear are still being explored, it is clear that victims of workplace discrimination now must be quicker to suspect, and quicker to report, alleged discrimination, or risk losing all rights to recover under federal laws. Read more.
New Retroactive Sentence Guidelines
New retroactive sentence guidelines create possibility to reduce sentences for past crack cocaine-related convictions
In a move that could mean a substantial reduction in sentences for thousands of federal inmates, the United States Sentencing Commission recently voted 7-0 to retroactively ease the sentence guidelines for crack cocaine-related offenses. Read more.
National Law Journal coverage of Spangler v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.
Former DaimlerChrysler Corp. employee Sharon Spangler say she has a pretty good reason for missing a company-mandated medical exam: She was in jail on murder charges. Read more.
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