David Weisenfeld

Challenge to Health Care Law Flying Under the Radar

Summer is a sleepy time at the Supreme Court as most of the justices exit the scorching Washington heat.  Justice Stevens was known to keep busy on the tennis court while Justice Thomas often heads around the country in his RV.  As for Justice Kennedy, he regularly teaches abroad and others hit the speaking circuit. …

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Octogenarian Manager Strikes Blow Against Age Bias

The Florida Marlins hiring of 80-year-old Jack McKeon on June 20 to manage their team for the remainder of the baseball season was greeted with widespread ridicule.  Sports-talk radio hosts on WFAN 660 in New York mocked the Marlins, and others were quick to do so as well.  No one other than the legendary Connie …

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Why Wal-Mart Matters, But Perhaps Less Than You Think

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision on Monday in Wal-Mart v. Dukes understandably garnered front-page headlines in the nation’s newspapers. After all, the case was the largest employment discrimination case in history, dwarfing all other competitors by far with its potential to have included more than one-million current and former female Wal-Mart employees. But in reality, …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.