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In Flanders Fields

By John McCrae (1915)

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

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We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing ...

Here is a collection of tributes to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died just short of his 80th birthday on Saturday. For now, I'm not going to include political speculations. We send our prayers and condolences to Justice Scalia's family, friends, and loved ones.Antonin Scalia 2010.flickrCC.StephenMasker

By Adam Liptak from The New York Times, probably the most comprehensive news account of his life and work.

By ...

 

The time is always right to do the right thing.

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Image Credit: From flickr, Creative Commons license: Photo of mural at District of Columbia Public Library by Elvert Barnes.

We're on Christmas holidays/vacation until the new year and will not have any posts this Friday or the following Friday (New Year's Day). There may be exceptions for breaking employment-related news, assuming there is any. Moderation of comments may also be slower than normal.

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Yeah, right - it's supposed to be in the 70s in N.C. on Christmas Day!

We wish you all and your loved ones a very ...

All joy and happiness during this festival of lights!

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Image Credit: Flickr, Creative Commons license, by Bill Lapp.

 

Thanks so much to all of you who elected Employment & Labor Insider to the ABA Blawg 100 for another year. We appreciate you more than you know.image

I would also like to thank my colleagues who contributed posts this year and helped get us where we are today: Cara Crotty, Tommy Eden, Ellen Kearns, Marcia McShane,  David Phippen, and David Smith.

Congratulations also to fellow employment blog ...

I just learned today that earlier this week, Jacqueline Berrien, the first Chair of the Equal EmploymentJacqueline_Berrien.JPG Opportunity Commission appointed by President Obama, died of cancer at the age of 53.

Ms. Berrien stepped down from the EEOC in 2014. The agency's current Chair is Jenny Yang.

I did not always agree with Ms. Berrien, and I've given her what I hope she took as some good-natured ...

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North Carolina Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Raleigh. (Photo from flickr, Creative Commons license, by Gerry Dincher.)

 

Today is supposedly "Love Your Lawyer Day," and you are encouraged to wish us a happy day, thank us for being so awesome, or even send us "a gift, flowers, or a card."

You also shouldn't tell lawyer jokes. (Unless they are really funny.)

I'm not wild about holidays that are manufactured by marketers, and this is reportedly the invention of a lawyer-marketer, sanctioned by the American Bar ...

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"Everybody can say whatever they want about me, but I can't say anything back without getting sued?"

"Drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find."

"Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'"

"Did NOT!"

Can a denial open you up for a defamation suit? Apparently.

This is essentially what recently happened to Bill Cosby. Three women ...

Robin Shea has 30 years' experience in employment litigation, including Title VII and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (including the Amendments Act). 
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