Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Chemerinsky v. UC Irvine?

Serial Alaska Bar Association lecturer Erwin Chemerinsky has a chance to make some employment law.  One week after hiring him, the University of California Irvine has fired Chemerinsky as the Dean of its Law School (to open summer of 2008).  Chemerinsky says the school fired him because the administration found his political views too controversial.  No word yet regarding […]

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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

DAlaska: No Legislator Duty to Disclose Employment Negotiations

Judge John Sedwick has published two more opinions in U S. v. Kott & Weyhrauch, 3:07-cr-00056 JWS (D.Alaska).   
In the more recent opinion, Judge Sedwick held that AS 24.60.030(3) does not require a legislator to disclose negotiations for employment.  Other portions of AS 24.60 (”Standards of Conduct”) expressly require disclosure of various legislator actions.  Thus, the absence […]

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