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Judge grants class action status in Kraft pay case
Class Action News | 2008/05/09 09:16
Employees of Kraft Foods have been given class action status for their lawsuit seeking pay for time spent putting on and taking off safety equipment.

U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb says current and former hourly employees who worked at the company's Oscar Mayer meat processing plant in Madison since May 2004 can take part. Crabb says the group includes at least 1,000 workers.

The workers claim the company is breaking the law by refusing to pay them for time spent donning and doffing equipment like protective boots, hard hats and ear muffs. Workers must go to the plant's third floor before and after shifts to do so. The company argues those activities do not qualify for pay and is fighting the lawsuit.


Bush nominates Va. judge to fill vacancy on 4th Circuit
Headline News | 2008/05/09 08:14
A federal judge in Virginia is President Bush's pick to fill one of several vacancies on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, widely viewed as the most conservative federal appellate bench in the country.

The White House announced Thursday that Bush had nominated Glen E. Conrad to the Richmond, Va.-based appeals court, which has handled some of the country's biggest terrorism cases.

Conrad has been a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia since 2003.

If confirmed by the Senate, Conrad would fill the seat of H. Emory Widener Jr., who died last year.

Conrad, 58, a native of Radford, Va., is a 1974 graduate of the College of William and Mary and the Marshall Wythe School of Law. From 1976 to 2003, Conrad was a federal magistrate judge in the Western District of Virginia's Abingdon, Charlottesville and Roanoke divisions.



High court says gay partners can't get health benefits
Lawyer Blog News | 2008/05/08 15:58
A same-sex marriage ban prevents governments and universities in Michigan from providing health insurance to the partners of gay workers, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

The 5-2 decision affects up to 20 universities, community colleges, school districts and governments in Michigan with policies covering at least 375 gay couples.

Gay rights advocates said the ruling was devastating but were confident that public-sector employers have successfully rewritten or will revise their benefit plans so same-sex partners can keep getting health care.

The ban, a constitutional amendment approved in November 2004, says the union between a man and woman is the only agreement recognized as a marriage "or similar union for any purpose."

The court ruled that while marriages and domestic partnerships aren't identical, they are similar because they're the only relationships in Michigan defined in terms of gender and lack of a close blood connection.



Senate Democrats seek to tax oil companies
Lawyer News | 2008/05/08 15:00
Senate Democrats called Wednesday for a limited windfall profits tax on the largest oil companies and a rollback of $17 billion in oil industry tax breaks as part of an energy package that also would impose federal penalties on energy price gouging.

Senate Republicans strongly oppose those measures, which are widely viewed as having little chance of being enacted. Even then, they would almost certainly prompt a veto by President Bush.

The 25 percent windfall profits tax would apply only to oil companies that "fail to invest in increased (production) capacity and renewable energy sources," according to a summary of the proposals released by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office.

The energy proposals also seek to halt deliveries of oil into the government's Strategic Petroleum Reserve until oil prices drop to $75 a barrel.



Man convicted of stalking actress Uma Thurman
Court Feed News | 2008/05/08 12:59

The former mental patient convicted yesterday of stalking actress Uma Thurman was ordered by a judge to be kept in jail for a month to undergo psychiatric examination before he is sentenced.

Jack Jordan, 37, of Maryland, showed no emotion as a jury in Manhattan State Supreme Court convicted him just before noon of stalking and aggravated harassment - both misdemeanors - for actions over a two-year period driven by his obsessive love for the "Pulp Fiction" star.

The panel of six men and six women, which had deliberated for about five hours since Monday, acquitted him of two other charges of aggravated harassment.

Assistant District Attorney Jessica Taub asked Judge Gregory Carro to immediately put Jordan in a Manhattan jail next to the courthouse pending his sentence, a move vehemently opposed by defense attorney George Vomvolakis.



Boyfriend pleads not guilty in toilet-seat case
Criminal Law Updates | 2008/05/08 11:02
The western Kansas man whose girlfriend became stuck to a toilet during a two-year stay in their bathroom appeared in court Wednesday in separate cases.

Ness County prosecutors said Kory McFarren pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of mistreatment of a dependent adult. The charge stemmed from police in February discovering McFarren’s girlfriend, Pam Babcock, physically stuck to the toilet.

McFarren said Babcock had refused to come out of the bathroom for two years. Medical personnel estimated she spent at least a month on the toilet. Babcock remains in a Wichita hospital. McFarren’s pretrial hearing is June 13.

McFarren also had his first appearance on a felony charge of lewd and lascivious behavior. He was arrested in March for allegedly exposing himself to a neighbor who was a minor.



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