The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently handed down its decision that a school may prohibit students from wearing a slogan that they subjectively and reasonably interpret to be profane or vulgar, irrespective of disruption or lack thereof to the school environment…

Issuing a fine of $5,500 for filing generative artificial intelligence hallucinations with the court, Judge Michael Slade in Chicago provided the legal community with a pun about the dangers of relying on chatbots…

At an annual interfaith breakfast hosted on Tuesday, February 27, 2023, Mayor Eric Adams' aide, chaplain Ingrid Lewis-Martin, declared 'that the Adams administration 'doesn't believe' in the separation of church and state, characterizing the mayor of New York City as 'definitely one of the chosen' as she introduced him."  Taking the stage, Mayor Adams responded, …

Stoughton Public Schools Superintendent Tom Raab made a decision at the beginning of the school year to keep all classrooms as "neutral learning environments" by keeping them free of any items such as flags, posters or materials that are unrelated to the curriculum. Naturally, this move has been met with significant public protest. Without evidence …

I recently came across a GBH news article wherein an attorney advised people to avoid political protest because their employer may fire them for such activity.  The First Amendment says otherwise. Political speech is at the heart of the First Amendment, which protects government employees.  Government employees cannot be fired for political speech unless the …

The First Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision this week rendering au pairs in Massachusetts subject to the state’s wage and hour laws, which require that an employee be paid a minimum of $12.00 for each hour worked up to and including 40 hours in a single week and $18.00 for each hour thereover…

Beginning July 1, 2018, women – and men – can seek equal payment of “wages” regardless of gender under the newly revised Massachusetts Equal Pay Act (Equal Pay Act).  Originally passed in 1945, the Equal Pay Act was at the time the first state law requiring equal pay for equal work…