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Michigan’s unemployment compensation agency has turned against the people who need it most. Hundreds of thousands of claimants, who made truthful applications, are being ordered to repay tens of thousands of dollars to the state – the very sums they needed to survive...

It is now well established that increasingly we live close to others who share our political preferences. No one plans to get an abortion before getting an unexpected pregnancy and so it is unlikely that people will choose to live in a state because they could get an...

The next battleground in abortion laws lies at the state level, and no issue will become hotter than whether states can punish women who travel out of state to get abortions.  

I have repeatedly blogged about the Justice Department’s “China Initiative”. By numerous accounts, China’s Communist government has pursued an intelligence gathering and intellectual property theft operation of enormous proportions in the USA. We want our Government...

Discrimination against overweight people is common in American society.  In my work, I have seen that for my clients, the effects of such discrimination in the American workplace are strikingly unequal between men and women.The New York Times article, Body-Shaming...

Employers and the federal government are adopting mandatory vaccination policies.  In New York City, clubs and restaurants are checking vaccine cards.  Medicare will now require nursing homes to vaccinate staff. Many employers, hospitals, and universities throughout...

Getting fired for vaccine refusal ... is it legal?  Can you still get unemployment? Simply put, Nacht says "In general, I firmly believe that mandatory vaccine policies are going to be found lawful by the vast majority of courts, I have no reason to believe that...

Mandatory vaccine use for COVID-19 is starting at many universities and a few employers. Many more employers will soon mandate vaccines for employees and perhaps visitors to the workplace. Some people believe they have a legal basis to challenge such requirements.  As...

Any decent person who saw the video of the police officer suffocating a man on the ground was horrified. Why was it a news story when the jury found the officer guilty?  It was newsworthy precisely because the crime captured a national conversation about policing and...

“Expungement” refers to the legal process of setting aside a criminal conviction. A growing recognition that many people deserve second chances has led to the expansion of this opportunity. When Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the new law, she proclaimed, “This is a...