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It started with a tweet….

Well it wasn’t that simple really. Nor was it a tweet. It was a retweet of right-wing blogger and actor, Adam Baldwin, (fondly remembered by this author as Linderman from My Bodyguard – shot in my hometown!) to which I added a comment mocking one of the links in the tweet. A few tweets later [...]

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Eight Circuit orders new trial after SCOTUS makes age discrimination claims more difficult

In June, the SCOTUS made it much tougher for age discrimination plaintiff’s to pursue their claims. In Gross v. FBL Financial Services Inc the SCOTUS said that it was the responsibility of the plaintiff to prove that age was the motivating factor (not just one of the factors) in the adverse employment decision. Because of [...]

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