Without a doubt, this has to be one of the weirdest workplace-related privacy lawsuits I have come across, even though the complaint doesn’t specifically mention privacy. Jamie Ross of Courthouse News reports: An attorney says he was forced to quit his job after a law firm docked his pay because he refused to go to…
Category: Court
Papers, Please: Lawyer objects to demand for photo ID, is arrested then sues
Peter Hermann of the Baltimore Sun reports: Norman Christopher Usiak was in a hurry. The attorney from Frederick had briefs to file, and in the rush, he couldn’t remember where he put his wallet. He was wearing dark pants and a white T-shirt, an un-lawyerly ensemble a police officer described as “looking disheveled.” It was…
CA: Court upholds ruling on school drug tests
Jim Schultz reports: An appellate court on Thursday upheld a ruling by a Shasta County Superior Court judge who issued a preliminary injunction last year against the Shasta Union High School District that ordered it to stop drug testing nonathletes. In its 31-page ruling, the Third District Court of Appeal said the school district failed…
In the midst of Assange’s legal woes in Sweden, another lawsuit
While charges against Julian Assange have been reinstated in Sweden — probably to the great surprise of his attorney who had opined that the interview with the prosecutors had gone “very well” and that he expected all charges to be dropped — Assange is also facing a lawsuit in the U.S. Unlike the Swedish charges,…