State law tort claims - a new weapon in employment discrimination cases? When employees file discrimination claims, they have often been pre-empted from bringing state law tort claims. A recent seventh circuit case, Naeem v McKesson Drug Co, suggests that courts may be headed in a new direction.
Plaintiffs' employment lawyers have long been limited to litigating unfair employment practices claims under various federal employment laws or their Illinois state law counterparts under the Illinois human rights act, ("IHRA"). (1) other than breach of contract or common law retaliatory discharge, aggrieved employees have generally been foreclosed from...

Business Digest.
COLUMN: Business Digest Staples faces overtime-pay suit Framingham-based Staples Inc., the world's largest office-supplies retailer, was sued over claims that it illegally denies overtime pay to assistant store sales managers. The complaint, which seeks class-action status, says Staples violates the federal Fair Labor...

FORCED 12-STEP LOSES IN COURT.
Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard When Ricky Inouye, a Buddhist, meth addict and ex-con in Hawaii, was arrested for trespassing and tested positive for drugs, his parole officer ordered him into a treatment program based on the tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous. When Inouye dropped out...

Fast and necessary; (Editor's note: Congressional committee hearings can yield results a lot faster than judicial measures as noted by the author.).
Byline: Romeo V. Pefianco Harry S. Truman was the first US president in fifty years without a college education. On his second term as US senator (Democrat, Missouri) it was a year before WW II started. Saving $ 15 B for the US ...

Beware the frivolous lawsuit.
OK, which of the following does not belong with the others? * Administrative law judge sues local cleaners for $65 million for "losing" his pants, later found and returned to him with the original ticket. * Woman sues pharmacy for false labeling because she ate...

Nevada jury reduces $134.5 million judgment against Wyeth in HRT lawsuit.
A jury in Reno, NV, slashed $100 million from a compensatory judgment against pharmaceutical giant Wyeth after it conceded a previous award improperly included a levy to punish the company for its hormone replacement drugs, the Associated Press (AP) reported Oct. 15. Washoe District Judge Robert Perry...

Women allege gender bias at EMC; Pay disparity, strip club visits alleged.
Byline: Mark Jewell BOSTON - A sex-discrimination lawsuit by two former female employees of EMC Corp. describes a men's locker-room atmosphere at the data storage vendor's sales offices and alleges women were systematically denied equal pay and forced to accompany men on company-paid strip club visits. ...

Philadelphia court overturns verdict for Wyeth in Prempro lawsuit.
The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas May 31 overturned the verdict related to the hormone therapy drug Prempro in favor of the company in the case of Jennie Nelson v. Wyeth. The case, which was a "reverse bifurcation" phased trial, was first tried in October. Jennie Nelson...

Specific claims legislation introduced in house.
On Nov. 27, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and the federal government took the next step in their efforts to create a new and improved process for handling land claims, with legislation to create a specific claims tribunal being tabled in the House of Commons. That same day,...

Couple claims retaliation by managers working in sheriff's department.
Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard A married couple who work for the Lane County Sheriff's Office have filed separate lawsuits in federal court, alleging that sheriff's managers retaliated against them after the woman, Vicki Slater, complained that a manager transmitted inappropriate sexual content over the office e-mail....