The largest private employer in the United States, Walmart, has announced plans to increase the minimum wage of its employees to $10.00/hour. This announcement is an interesting one, as far as the law is concerned. First, Walmart challenged the certification of a class-action lawsuit by all current and former female employees in front of …
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I refuse to pay Comcast $100/month so they can sell advertising. Which means I don’t have cable. But fear not, readers. I have the internet on (I just counted) no less than a dozen devices which will tell me that one starlet wore it worse than the other and another starlet is suing FOX News …
Continue reading The Winter of His DisengagementWelcome back to the David Dorer Show. Listen live to the show via Spreaker by playing the media player below.This week’s episode is the “My Kids, My Rules” Edition. My panelists and I will discuss the anti-vaxxer, parental choice, public health concern in the wake of an outbreak of the Measles after it’s eradication in 2000, ISIS’ execution …
Continue reading David Dorer Show – The “My Kids, My Rules” EditionIn a challenge to Alabama’s Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a stay of any consequences of the Court’s ruling, paving the way for same-sex marriages in Alabama to begin sometime next week. A stay was placed on the case by District Court Judge Callie Granade, preventing …
Continue reading 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Gay Marriage StayDisclaimer: I am not a parent, and therefore my opinions may be immediately rejected by some parents as not being founded on experience; but, unless they are lawyers, my legal opinion on whether taking a substantial risk of harming someone else with a harmful disease based on a “personal choice” will probably trump theirs. So, …
Continue reading Measles Outbreak and Parental “Choice”Welcome back to the David Dorer Show. Listen live to the show via Spreaker by playing the media player below.This week’s episode is the “Church and State” Edition, where we will thoroughly analyze Georgia’s “Religious Liberty” Bill (full text of the bill is below the fold), we will look at the backlash of President Obama’s announcement that he will not meet …
Continue reading David Dorer Show – Church and State EditionSince the twin towers well fell, there has been talk of unseating the US dollar as the reserve currency. With the election of Syriza, a far-left populist party led by Alexis Tsipras, and Mr Tsipras’ swearing in as prime minister,the Euro as a currency is a tenuous proposition. China has managed to furl the …
Continue reading Knolan’s Knonsense – Regulate the RegulatorsThe Dorer Daily is a daily recap of the political and legal news of the day, in a podcast format. David brings you blog posts throughout the day on news, politics, and law, and then breaks down the highlights in an auditory medium meant to be enjoyed on your ride home from work. …
Continue reading Dorer Daily – January 27, 2015In one of the most ridiculous power-plays by local government I’ve seen in a long time, Police are encouraging Google, owner of the app Waze, to discontinue its cop tracker function of the map app, for fear that it could result in the targeting and harming of police officers. The problem with this is …
Continue reading Police Ask Google To Turn Off Cop Tracking in WazeIn a very strange twist of legal procedures, a stay of Charles Warner’s Oklahoma execution was not granted by the Supreme Court last week; however, his case has been accepted on certiorari to determine whether the lethal injection procedures used in Oklahoma constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.” According to Supreme Court procedures, a stay …
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