Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Palin Appoints Bolger to Court of Appeals
Gov. Sarah Palin has appointed Joel Bolger to the vacancy on the Court of Appeals created by Dave Stewart’s retirement.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Alaska Lawyers in the News - Winfree, Van Flein, and Colberg
The spotlight on Gov. Sarah Palin has spread to her first Supreme Court appointee - Dan Winfree - and her Department of Law-selected attorney for the Troopergate investigation.
Volokh Conspiracy tried to read tea leaves from Palin’s pick of Winfree, and the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog lightly profiled Thomas Van Flein from the Anchorage office of Clapp […]
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
9th Cir: ADA Discrimination and Retaliation Claims
The 9th Circuit has reviewed Judge James Singleton’s rulings on ADA claims made by an FAA Flight Data Specialist at the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center.
The panel reversed Singleton’s determination that the FAA retained sovereign immunity from an ADA retaliation claim, relying on last Term’s opinion in Gomez-Perez v. Potter, 128 S.Ct. 1931 (2008). […]
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Alaska Employment Law Section: Fisher on 2008-09 U S SCt Term
At tomorrow’s meeting of the Employment Law Section of the Alaska Bar Association, Gregory Fisher from the Anchorage office of Birch Horton will present his preview of the 2008-09 Term of the U S Supreme Court.
Fisher earlier analyzed the past Term’s labor and employment cases for AEL:
Sprint v. Mendelsohn
Federal Express v. Holowecki
Preston v. Ferrer, and […]
