Jim Moore reports: Avery Doninger will soon return to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with the right of students across the country to speak their minds in blogs and text messages at stake. Once a 16-year-old high school junior who referred to school administrators as “douchebags” in an online blog post protesting the…
Football and Federalism: A Case Centers on NFL Drug Testing
Michael C. Dorf, Professor of Law at Cornell University, had a column on FindLaw this week: Last week, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dealt an apparent blow to the National Football League’s drug-testing policy. In Williams v. NFL, the court held that league’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA)…
Call to retain more DNA samples
The law on the retention of DNA samples in Scotland could soon be tightened by the closing of a “legal loophole”. Currently, people who accept “direct measures” such as fines, as an alternative to prosecution, cannot have their DNA kept in the police database. Nationalist MSP Stewart Maxwell plans to amend a bill at Holyrood…
UK drugs test for claimants sparks row over unemployment benefits
Controversial government plans to allow Jobcentre staff to “order” benefit claimants to undergo tests for drug and alcohol dependency are in breach of European law and unlikely to work, according to leading addiction charities. The proposals, outlined in the welfare reform bill, which is due before the House of Lords next month, are part of…