Philadelphia PA March 17 2023 Paid time off that workers accumulate is not a part of their salary under U.S. wage law, meaning employers can take away paid leave when salaried workers do not meet productivity quotas, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. Sept 10 2022 A Richland County judge ruled Tuesday that firing squads and the use of the electric chair are unconstitutional in South Carolina. Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled in the case involving four death row inmates against the State of South Carolina. She granted declaratory and injunctive relief for the inmates, writing: “In 2021, […]
Spokane WA July 8 2022 A unanimous Washington Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed a five-year prison sentence for a Spokane man who stole $15 worth of food from a Spokane grocery store, then repeatedly punched a security guard who confronted him in the parking lot. In its 9-0 opinion, the court ruled that the state’s […]
Upper Macungie Township PA July 23 2021 Amazon must pay its Pennsylvania warehouse workers for the time they spend waiting for and undergoing security screenings, the state Supreme Court has ruled in a lawsuit led by workers at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Upper Macungie Township. The decision Wednesday is part of a nationwide complex of […]
HOUSTON TX June 13 2021 — A federal judge on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit by Houston Methodist Hospital employees who were suing the hospital over its COVID-19 vaccine requirement. The lawsuit, brought by nurse Jennifer Bridges and 116 other employees, alleged that requiring employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine is forcing them to participate in a […]
WASHINGTON D.C. June 4 2021– Tribal police have the authority to detain non-Natives traveling through reservation land if the officer has a reasonable belief that the suspect violated state or federal law, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The unanimous ruling overturned lower courts that said a Crow police officer should not have held a nontribal […]
Dayton Ohio April 7 2021 The city of Dayton has won another legal victory in its battle against a state law that restricts and penalizes the use of automated traffic cameras. A state appeals court has mostly upheld a lower court’s ruling that the state restrictions unconstitutionally limit Dayton’s legislative authority and home-rule powers. The court […]
Washington DC October 28 2019 Affirming summary judgment for the government on all of the due process and most of the Rehab Act claims asserted by a group of federal court security officers who were dismissed after failing medical evaluations, a D.C. Circuit panel found that, even absent an oral hearing, the medical review process […]
Chicago IL October 4 2019 A jury awarded $4.8 million to the mother of a man who was fatally shot by a security guard at a Chicago Housing Authority complex in 2016. Ulisa Howell-Darby, mother and independent administrator of the estate of Eric Knox, sued Kates Detective & Security Services Agency in 2017 for the […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. June 15 2019 The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday nullified voters’ approval of “Marsy’s Law” last fall, ruling that legislators should have placed the complete language of the proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot rather than a brief summary. The unanimous decision upholds a Franklin Circuit Court judge’s order that agreed with a group […]