Judicial vacancies: Ketchikan Superior Court Judge Michael Thompson will not run for retention.
Barrow Superior Court Judge Michael Jeffery is sitting pro tem until the Judicial Council fills the seat vacated by the Supreme Court. The applicants are Jeffery, Rosemary (”Poke”) Haffner of Fairbanks, and Steven D. Smith of Anchorage.
TransCanada AGIA application: The full text is available […]
Caltech may be liable for unnecessary enforcement of federally-mandated background checks
NASA required “low risk” employees at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to submit to the same in-depth background investigation required of federal civil service employees. That process requires completion of Standard Form 85 and authorization for the government to send a Form 42 (”Investigative Request for Personal Information”) […]
“Severance pay” v. “continued salary”
The Court of Appeals has reversed the District of Oregon and held that an EPLI insurer must indemnify an employer for settlement payments it made to an employee based on employment contract provisions relating to salary continuation and stock options.
Salary continuation v. severance pay: The employment contract guaranteed Mark Lehnert six years unreduced pay […]
