A Decision in the Hobby Lobby case

Please take a look at the following article concerning the Supreme Court's recent decision in the Hobby Lobby case:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddavenport/2014/06/30/congress-actually-decided-the-hobby-lobby-case-decades-ago/

What repercussions, if any, are likely to follow this decision?

Do you believe that the Court made the correct decision?

Harris v. Quinn

On June 30th the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled in Harris v. Quinn that home health care workers in Illinois cannot be compelled to pay dues to a union they don’t wish to join. That ruling is a blow to the Service Employees International Union, the American Federation of Teachers and other unions that have organized tens of thousands of home health workers in states including Illinois, California and Connecticut. Those workers can now decide whether they want to pay dues.

It is predicted that public union membership and finances will suffer under this ruling by giving workers the option of not paying dues and joining. With this precedent future cases could strip the unions of even more power. 

President Obama to sign executive order prohibiting discrimination against LGBT employees

Please take a look at the following article addressing President Obama's planned executive order extending protection to LGBT employees of companies doing business with the federal government.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-discrimination-20140617-story.html#page=1

Do you believe that this Order will have a meaningful impact on LGBT discrimination?  How preveleant is workplace discrimination based on LGBT status?  Is an executive order appropriate in this instance?

Duran v. U.S. Bank National Association,

In a recent publication by Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton LLP, Employment Law E-Update, a recent court case, Duran v. U.S. Bank National Association, proved how costly misclassification of position is. The bank misclassified 260 loan officers and the loan officers were awarded $57,000 each, totaling to $15,000,000. The court took a unique approach and instead of interviewing all 260, they based their verdict on a sampling of 22. I found this interesting as we just discussed this in class. This is a recent verdict (May 2014), interesting case. Ann