Barbara Leonard reports: A waitress says her managers fired her because she refused to take a bribe to let an undocumented kitchen worker use her son’s Social Security number. Sheila Everly sued Legal Sea Foods in Westchester County Court. Everly says that after she rejected bribes and threats from the Boston-based chain’s managers, she complained…
Category: Workplace
The Turducken Approach to Privacy Law
Adam Liptak writes about a privacy law case that may be better known to you for its culinary reference in a dissenting opinion, perhaps, then the substantive issues. But stay with the story, because it does get to the legal issues… In June, the metaphor of the turducken made its first appearance in American jurisprudence….
Attorney-Client Privilege Waived by Imputed Knowledge of Employer E-Mail Monitoring
Jeff Neuburger writes: In August, we wrote about the ruling of a New Jersey appellate court in Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc., in which the court took a very narrow view of the ability of employers to monitor the e-mail communications of employees over its computer networks. In that case, which is now on…
Confidential UAlbany documents part of Climategate leak
Chris White reports: At least two confidential documents that SUNY lawyers refused to release earlier this year were leaked as part of thousands hacked from a top climate research center last month. The documents were made available by independent researcher Douglas Keenan. In August 2007, Keenan wrote a paper accusing UAlbany Professor Wei-Chyung Wang of…