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The FISA court -- a court of rotating federal judges that issues warrants on intelligence suspects-- authorized a secret wiretap on a US citizen suspected of close ties with Russian agents, Carter Page. That the Intelligence Committee of the House of Republicans...
Let's move to the future faster with fewer police-driver interactions. Once cars are automated, we know there will be far fewer police stops of motorists. The cars will not be programmable to break the law. What about now? Besides stopping dangerous drivers, such as...
Women entered and stayed in the workforce regardless of family status in large numbers in the 1970s. Women penetrated most male preserves in blue collar (factory) and white collar environments (law). But some industries remain remarkably segregated by gender. The...
It is no secret that sexism in the workplace is still a problem. While there are obvious forms of misogyny and sex discrimination at work, sometimes it is not so apparent. According to a report by Fast Company, biases toward women in the workplace are often implicit...
If you work for an employer with more than 15 employees, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination related to your birthplace, culture, linguistic characteristics or accent. Smaller employers with between 4 and 14 employees cannot discriminate on...
This article, Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination, raises an interesting question of uncertain legality. To be precise, court decisions are not clear as to whether targeting advertisements for jobs to younger workers violates age discrimination...
This study provides a nice reminder that our mind jumps to images we see in the news, or, it might have stated, in the movies. Images, or as social scientists have said for too long, "stereotypes", get in the way of listening to people, hearing their stories or...
NachtLaw is pleased to announce that we are regionally ranked in the U.S. News - Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" 2018 edition. This practice areas and region are as follows: Metropolitan Tier 2 - Ann Arbor, MI Criminal Defense: General Practice AND Employment Law -...
Most employment law issues concerning females tend to focus on overt, prevalent behaviors, such as sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination and too little pay. These are the stories that make the news most often. Yet they are not the only ways in which women face...
Last month, the #hashtag “me too” went viral. Stories never before shared were finally out in the open. The spectrum of sexual harassment is broad and many incidents have happened in offices and on work floors across the nation. What are the types of sexual harassment...