What seems so clear in one moment can seem so misguided years later. This NY Times article, "Linda Fairstein, Once Cheered Faces Storms After 'When They See Us", by Elizabeth Harris and Julie Jacobs discusses the career of the famous sex crimes prosecutor, Linda...
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Year: 2019
NachtLaw establishes new rights for Students in Michigan
In a precedent setting case in the western district of Michigan, Doe v Northern Michigan University, David Nacht obtained the first court opinion providing a student with a breach of contract claim when he is expelled in a flawed process because the college violated...
Will a noncompete clause keep you from starting your own practice?
Whether you are starting your career as a doctor or you are looking to make a change, it can be helpful to join other doctors in an established practice. The owners already have experience and a good reputation in the community. It can be a mutually beneficial trade....
Michigan emergency rooms are jammed.
It's not just emergency rooms; it's jails too. Decades ago, we wrongly warehoused the severely mentally ill. In the1970-1980s we abandoned that approach. In part, this was due to civil liberties lawsuits. It was also due to cultural change brought about by films such...
Jew hating and killing is on the rise
We are changing as a nation, and in one particular respect, not for the better. Jew hating and Jew killing is on the rise. Jews have generally felt safe to worship and gather as communities in the US since the founding of the Republic. AntiSemitism was prevalent for...
Title IX lawsuit againt Keystone Academy
Nacht & Roumel, P.C. has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a 9-year-old girl, and sexual assault victim, against Keystone Academy, a charter school. This case alleges that the school not only failed to properly investigate a student's sexual assault claims and failed...
Fear of covert retaliation silences harassment claims in medicine
In 2018, the fight against sexual harassment expanded beyond Hollywood with the founding of Times’s Up. This year, Time’s Up Healthcare branched out to focus on more gender balance in healthcare leadership (women in medicine only hold 10 percent of chief executive...
Why doctors should seek employment contract review
One young primary care physician had received an offer and was in the process of moving. That all changed when she learned a provision in the contract would limit how she could spend her free time. A wave of mergers has increased the percentage of Catholic-owned or...
Teenagers Taunt Native American Elder
There is no more conservative value than "respect your elders." See Ten Commandments. We could add "show good manners". It is clear that these values were not present among the boys in this video of teenagers taunting a native American elder. It apparently never...
A brief primer on impeachment procedures
The first bill of impeachment of President Trump has been introduced this Congress by Rep. Brad Sherman of California, H Res. 13. The bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee. The bill is based on a charge of obstruction of justice for firing FBI director...