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ABQ attorneys offer these tips for dealing with Covid-19 liability issues: By Collin Krabbe – Technology reporter , Albuquerque Business First, May 18, 2020, A few months ago, if you had asked Albuquerque business attorney Larry Donahue if an illness such as the flu...
Can I Decide Whether I Should Get a Test for COVID 19?
Can Anyone Who is Willing To Pay for a Test Get It? No. Who Says I Can’t Get a Test? President Trump always says that anybody who wants a test can get one. If you work in the White House, you can get a test whenever you want even if you have no symptoms. That is just...
Can People Be Arrested for Breaking the Social Distancing Rules During the Pandemic?
Disobedience of Emergency Orders During the Pandemic In a declared emergency, New York State law gives the governor the power to temporarily suspend or modify any statute or local law or to make any directive which is necessary to cope with the disaster. Governor...
Covid 19: Have You Been Getting Robbed at the Market? Is Price Gouging Really a Crime?
What is Price Gouging? Price gouging is raising the price of a product excessively higher than the merchant’s cost to take advantage of a shortage caused by an emergency, like the pandemic we’re now in. Is Price Gouging Really a Crime? Yes, under NY State and NY City...
Covid 19: Our Nurses Have a Right to be Angry! – Part II
Nurses are Willing to Risk Their Lives – Shouldn’t They Have a Legal Right to PPE? Are Nurses Being Told to Work Without Appropriate PPE? YES – Absolutely. We are an employment law firm that represents workers, and we are hearing this on the phone from health care...
Covid 19: Our Nurses Have a Right to be Angry! – Part I
The Sick Days They Refuse to Give to Our Nurses Will Hurt All of Us! First – Are Nurses Entitled To Get Paid For Their COVID Sick Days? Everyone in New York who has to stay home because they have (or might have) COVID 19 and works for a large employer (like a...
Should College Athletes be Paid for the Use of Their Likenesses?
Legal Backdrop to Ed O’Bannon’s Lawsuit Against the NCAA and the California Fair Pay to Play Act In 2008, Ed O’Bannon, the former All-American UCLA power forward, happened to see his likeness on a video game which he had never authorized or been compensated for, so he...
Can a City Court Judge Sue the Chief Judge of the State Court System for Disability Discrimination?
A City Court Judge in White Plains filed a lawsuit against the Chief Judge and the Administrative Judge of the New York State court system. She claimed violations of federal discrimination laws against both of them and under state law against one of…
She Got Naked for Trump and Got Fired For It; Now How Will Her Lawsuit Come Out?
Chelsy Zelasko gave an interview and posed for some very suggestive1 photographs which were posted on a website a week before the 2016 election. Although she had previously been a registered democrat, she vigorously advocated for then candidate Trump in the interview,...
Bikini Baristas – Constitutional Law and Female Anatomy Over Coffee
The City of Everett, Washington, got very upset with the so called “Bikini Baristas”, and passed local laws which criminalized the clothing they wear as “lewd conduct”, and enacted a dress code for "Quick-Service Facilities," which was clearly designed to apply to the...
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