March 30, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Long ago, just calling three references was enough for an employer to make sure that you are a normal (enough) person to hire. Now, as we live our lives online through social media, employers are increasingly monitoring Facebook and other social media outlets in order to keep their employees under watch. First we began reading […]
March 30, 2012 at 7:51 am
Apparently the footwear industry is a litigious group. Athletic footwear has always been an innovative industry. I remember when Air Jordans came out, and the idea of an air pocket in the sole of a sneaker was the next great thing. More recently, we saw claims of toning sneakers, shoes that made you more fit […]
March 19, 2012 at 9:16 am
You may recall the mass shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007. It was a scary day for all of us, particularly those involved in a university. Last week a jury found that the university was negligent for its failure to take adequate steps to warn students that the shooter was on a rampage on campus. The parents […]
March 19, 2012 at 8:58 am
I am so over Facebook. I now spend my waiting in the carpool line, sitting at basketball practice, should be grading papers, time on Pinterest. For those of you still stuck in 2011, Pinterest is basically a site of online pinboards. People “pin” images of things they like, are interested in, think are beautiful, funny, […]
March 19, 2012 at 8:44 am
Goldman Sachs is one of the most successful banks in the world. It makes a lot of money. It attracts the best and brightest employees. Most of my students would happily take a job there. With great success, comes the burden of attention. So when a now-former Goldman employee wrote this scathing editorial in the New York Times last […]
March 5, 2012 at 10:21 am
Last week Bloomberg published this interesting article about a study that showed that wealthier people are more likely to cheat and lie. About a dozen people forwarded it to me in the same day, which means I must be doing something right. I read it with great interest, but no surprise. In my life I […]
In a great example of how First Amendment law impacts businesses, a federal court in Virginia ruled that the government’s new requirement that cigarette packages contain graphic images related to the harms that cigarettes cause is unconstitutional. As explained here, the Court found that the images were not intended to provide information, but rather to […]
When I was growing up, everyone knew some “guy” that was stealing cable TV. He had some weird system rigged up, stolen cable boxes, extra wires, whatever. When it rained it wouldn’t work, that sort of thing. Back then I didn’t pay a cable bill, so I didn’t really understand why someone would subject themselves […]
