Adjunct Law Prof Blog

Covers issues and information meant for adjunct law professors. It's part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.

Author: Mitchell H. Rubinstein is the primary editor of the blog and is an adjunct professor at St. John's Law School and New York Law School.

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Recent Posts from Adjunct Law Prof Blog

Agency Determination of Fitness Entitled To Deference
Bowie v. NYC Civil Service Commission, ___Misc.3d___(Queens Co. Sept. 29, 2008) demonstrates the amount of deference that is given to appointing authorities with respect to a determination of fitness to work. A correction officer sought…
Momentum for Employee Free Choice Keeps Growing
Momentum for Employee Free Choice Keeps Growing is an interesting September 26, 2008 AFL-CIO News Blog article. It reports on some more state officials and some 800,000 working men and woman supporting the Employee Free…
Michigan Does Away With LSAT In Some Admissions
No LSAT Allowed in Michigan Law School’s Special Admissions Program is an interesting September 25, 2008, ABA Journal Blog article. Michigan, one of our nations top law schools is going to do away with the…
Employment Lawyers Worst Nightmare-Criminal Contempt
In Re: Ruth Pollack, ___F.Supp. 2d___(E.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2008), is a case brought against an experienced employment litigator for criminal contempt by a sittting federal judge after he dismissed the employment discrimination case as a…
General Counsel Issues Memo On Back Pay Liability of Discriminatees
General Counsel Memo No. 09-01, October 3, 2008 entitled Guideline Memorandum Concerning St. George Warehouse is an important GC Memo to be aware of. It spans 11 pages and is intended to provide guidance concerning…
30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act-A Yale Law School Symposium
The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism is putting on a symposium on the PDA. Registration information and a list of speakers is available here. The Symposium celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination…
NLRB Reaffirms Single Facility Bargaining Unit Presumption
WeCare Transportation, Inc, 353 NLRB No. 9 (Sept. 17, 2008), is an important case because it reaffirms the NLRB's long standing single facility presumption. In any "R" case, the NLRB must determine the appropriate unit.…
NLRB Holds Michigan Charter School Is Private Employer Subject To Jurisdiction of NLRB
Charter School Administrative Services, 353 NLRB No. 35 (Sept. 30, 2008), is an important decision. The issue in the case was whether a Michigan Charter school was an employer subject to the jurisdiction of the…
The Downside or Upside of the Internet
Legal Blog Watch reports on a blog posting entitled Lawyer's Disciplinary Record Haunts Her Six Years Later which reports on a lawsuit filed by a disciplined attorney because disciplinary records remain online. This brings up…
Employee’s claim that her employee organization breached its duty of fair representation rejected as untimely
Nabors v Town of Somers, 2008 NY Slip Op 06972, decided on September 16, 2008, Appellate Division, Second Department Elizabeth Miller Nabors sued both. her former employer, the Town of Somers, alleging that she had…