Monday, March 10th, 2008

9th Cir: No RLA Duty to Maintain Status Quo During Initial Negotiations

NLRB v. Katz, 369 US 736 (1962), says that an employer may not unilaterally alter working conditions once it starts bargaining for the initial CBA.  Do employers governed by the Railway Labor Act have the same duty?  The 9th Circuit this morning says, No. 

This appeal presents the question whether section 2, First of the Railway Labor […]

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Monday, March 10th, 2008

Love and Death in the Wild

For more about the 48 Hours (CBS) segment on the Mechele Linehan case, attorneys Pat Gullufsen and Kevin Fitzgerald, et al., go here.

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Monday, March 10th, 2008

DAlaska: Work Product Privilege

Judge John Sedwick has held that the work product privilege protects documents created in anticipation of litigation by non-attorneys working for attorneys, as well as by attorneys themselves.  Here, while the privilege log did not indicate that an attorney was the intended recipient of the documents created by DLCA’s staff investigator, the Court relied on […]

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