Archive For The “Employment Law” Category
Is dwarfism a disability? This is a question a federal court in Texas may answer in the coming months. Since mid-May, a number of bloggers (here, there, over there, and way yonder) have commented about a federal complaint filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) on behalf of a person with dwarfism against Starbucks, [...]
One of my favorite movies of all time is Gattaca. It is a dystopian story about ‘genoism‘: DNA plays a role in every day life and genetic discrimination is a way of life. I won’t say anything more because I don’t want to give anything away — it is an amazing film with an excellent [...]
About a month ago, Ann Kiernan, a New Jersey attorney who practices preventive law for employers, blogged about one of Jon Corzine‘s last acts as Governor of New Jersey: signing a bill permitting physicians to prescribe marijuana to patients who suffer from such illnesses as cancer, AIDS, and Lou Gehrig’s Disease. In Ann’s article, she [...]
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