Top 10 in Law Blogs: Employment, Aviation, and Airbnb.
July 22, 2016
Friday is here, and on this day in 1939, at the World’s Fair in New York City, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia appointed Jane Bolin a judge of the city’s Domestic Relations Court, making her the first African-American women appointed to judicial office in the United States.
- Airbnb Acts Against Discrimination Where the Law Can’t Reach – Our own Zosha Millman looks into what Airbnb is doing to prevent the continued discrimination on the application, they have even gone as far as to hire former Attorney General Eric Holder.
- Password sharing and “head-slap hacks”: What employers can do – The Employment Labor & Insider blog reviews the two recent cases of Chris Correa and David Nosal, both of whom used past employees passwords to gain access to confidential information.
- Seventh Circuit Serves Up Employer-Friendly Recipe For Compensating Tipped Employees – The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog checks out the ruling last week in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit served up some welcome relief for employers in which the plaintiff argued that their tips should not be included towards their hourly pay when doing their end of the day duties like wiping tables and folding napkins.
- Caught in the Cross-Fire: Student Loan Lenders and Servicers’ Risks in the Bankruptcy Fight over College Tuition Clawbacks – Financial Perspectives Blog by Bradley LLP gives their input on this complicated case in which one family gets caught in between student loans and bankruptcy, “In December 2014, the DeMauros filed for bankruptcy. The Chapter 7 Trustee assigned to their case, in keeping with his duty to recover as much money as possible to repay the DeMauros’ creditors, has filed an adversary proceeding seeking to claw back these tuition payments to the DeMauros’ bankruptcy estate.”
- A Mind of Their Own: Autonomous Drone Operations – Mark J. Connot and Jason J. Zummo of On The Radar hands out their latest legal updates on drones and unmanned autonomous systems.
- Bill to Bar Air Excise Tax on Aircraft Management Fees Clears House Ways and Means Committee – The Greenberg Traurig Legacy Advisors blog goes in-depth and explains “A bill that would exempt aircraft management fees from the federal air transportation excise tax is advancing in the House”
- You’ve Got (Foreign) Mail: Can Law Enforcement Get to it?‘ – David Jacobson of Proskauer Rose LLP, gives you the statutory and factual background into Microsoft v. United States case.
- Three Things About Los Angeles’ New Sick Leave Ordinance That Will Give You Indigestion – The California Employment Law Blog calls rules regarding Los Angeles new sick leave ordinance, “partially nonsensical.”
- Fired for Being “Too Cute” – Fiona W. Ong of the Labor & Employment Report digs into the case of a yoga instructor being fired for being too cute, the fired instructor had received some questionable texts from the owner of the yoga studio’s wife.
- MACRA Delay? Don’t Count On It – Martie Ross of PYA explains why you probably shouldn’t count on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services delaying MACRA’s effective date.
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