Wednesday ELS meeting: The December 5th ELS meeting is on Ethics. The materials may be found here.
All-purpose in limine order: In a pending FLSA matter, Judge Burgess has entered a detailed in limine Order, covering 17 different categories of evidence. Burgess granted the employer’s motion, without opposition from the plaintiff employee.
The Order is easily adaptable to almost any […]
Sedwick dismisses several § 1983 claims
Impermissible search: Back in July, Judge Sedwick dismissed an acquitted criminal defendant’s civil rights claims against two state prosecutors arising from a marijuana search later held improper under state, not federal law. Mahle v. Mun. of Anchorage, 2007 WL 2021814 (D.Alaska Jul. 10, 2007). Now Sedwick has dismissed Mahle’s claims against the […]
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (12/03/07, A-14) carried an article about the tax status of the security guards employed by Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq. Blackwater classifies the guards as independent contractors, arguing, according to the WSJ, that they “like the ability to come and go between assignments, which [the IC status] makes easier.” Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Cal) […]
