Like many lawyers with expertise in insurance coverage, I was immediately contacted after the pandemic hit by business owners – often restaurant and bar owners – about seeking business interruption coverage under their insurance policies. My usual conclusion was that you could at least submit a claim and see what happens, but that, unless you had particularly deep pockets and/or large losses, I didn’t suggest bringing suit. My advice was based on two points: first, that recovering insurance benefits under … Read the rest
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At the end of an eventful year at the Supreme Court that included a ruling giving former President Donald Trump broad immunity from criminal prosecution for his conduct while in office, reporting that controversial flags had flown at the homes of Justice Samuel Alito, and an ethics inquiry from Senate Democrats that found more gift trips that Justice Clarence Thomas had failed to disclose, Chief Justice John Roberts’ annual report, released on Tuesday evening, focused on what he sees … Read the rest
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The Biden administration on Friday afternoon urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a federal law that would require TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its parent company can sell off the U.S. company by Jan. 19. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices that the social media giant “collects vast swaths of data about tens of millions of Americans, which” China “could use for espionage or blackmail.” Moreover, she added, China could “covertly … Read the rest
All federal courts have put in place an effective dispute resolution plan giving employees multiple pathways to report and address workplace concerns, and an increasing number of them are opting to use the new processes.
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It’s the end of the year.
Which means, for the foreseeable future, employers need to be mindful of the automatic increase to the state’s minimum wage which goes into effect on January 1, 2025.
Currently, the rate is $ 15.69. However, it goes up to $ 16.35 on Wednesday.
Why?
Connecticut’s minimum wage law, which connects the state minimum wage to changes in the federal employment cost index (ECI), was originally passed in 2019 when inflation wasn’t of major concern.… Read the rest
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
- From Trump Immunity to Broadway: Top 2024 Supreme Court Moments (Lydia Wheeler, Bloomberg Law)
- The Universe of TikTok v. Garland in a Nutshell (Adam Feldman, Legalytics)
- In 2024, state laws of interest to Catholics span abortion to IVF to immigration (Kate Scanlon, Catholic Review)
- History, Tradition, and the “Short-Martial” (Steve Vladeck, One First)
- The Supreme Court Case
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Hope Martinez and first published earlier this month by Social Science Quarterly. Here is its abstract:
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This article examines whether incarceration influences a change in political beliefs for those incarcerated and the extent to which it affects more vulnerable groups, including women and people of color.
Method
I use a series of logit models to analyze responses to the Marshall Project’s 2020 prison survey.
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:
- What Would the Founders Have Thought About TikTok and Online Porn? (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
- SCOTUS case threatens rural health broadband aid (Chelsea Cirruzzo & Ben Leonard, Politico)
- Supreme Court Cert Report December 2024 (Adam Feldman, Legalytics)
- The Supreme Court’s Christmas Gift to Religious-Right Lawyers (Madison Pauly, Mother Jones)
- Supreme Court justices hid billionaire gifts