The names and job descriptions of Securities and Exchange Commission employees who were caught viewing pornography at work will remain a secret, a federal district judge ruled Tuesday in Colorado. Denver attorney Kevin Evans requested the information after reading an SEC report that found that 24 SEC employees and seven employees of an SEC contractor…
Category: Court
NC Judge: Hospital Employees Must Get Flu Shot
Can’t say that I’m surprised by this one. Here’s the outcome of a workplace case mentioned previously on this blog: The fight over flu shots at Anderson Area Medical Center is over and an employee who filed suit to keep the hospital from firing her if she didn’t get a shot has a deadline. The judge in the…
New York City Lawyer Argues Over Release of Teacher Ratings
Chloe Smith writes: A New York City lawyer argued in court Wednesday over whether individual teachers’ ratings can be released to the public. The 12,000 New York City schoolteachers through eighth grade elementary and middle school say that the evaluation formula is highly subjective and flawed, and disclosure would violate teachers’ privacy as they fear that…
The War on Cameras
Radley Balko has a terrific article on Reason.com about an issue that has been mentioned a number of times on this blog: whether public servants such as the police have any right to privacy in the performance of their duties. The question garnered a lot of public attention earlier this year after a motorcyclist, Anthony…