Author Archive for Paul M. Secunda

An Analysis of the 7th Circuit’s Wisconsin Act 10 Anti-Public Sector Collective Bargaining Law Decision

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Category: Labor & Employment Law, Public, Wisconsin Law & Legal System | No Comments »

On Friday last week, the 7th Circuit in Wisconsin Education Association Council vs. Walker (7th Cir. Jan, 18, 2013), affirmed in part and reversed in part the Western District of ... Read more »

Some Thoughts on the Meaning of a Second Obama Term for Labor and Employment Law

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Category: Labor & Employment Law, Political Processes & Rhetoric, President & Executive Branch, Public | No Comments »

In light of President Obama's resounding re-election victory last night, and other developments in political races down the ticket, here are some of my initial thoughts on what might happen ... Read more »

Wisconsin Recall Post-Mortem: Implications for Labor

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
Category: Labor & Employment Law, Political Processes & Rhetoric, Public | 7 Comments »

Cross posted at Workplace Prof Blog. As one of the few labor law professors here in the State of Wisconsin, and as a close election watcher, I think it is incumbent ... Read more »

Federal Judge Partially Strikes Down Wisconsin Act 10, the Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill

Saturday, March 31st, 2012
Category: Labor & Employment Law, Wisconsin Law & Legal System | 3 Comments »

The Western District of Wisconsin issued its much anticipated opinion in WEAC v. Walker yesterday on the constitutionality of Wisconsin Act 10, the public-sector anti-collective bargaining bill that was enacted into law ... Read more »

The Most Important Public Employment Law Case: Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U.S. 563 (1968)

Monday, October 25th, 2010
Category: Labor & Employment Law, U.S. Supreme Court | 2 Comments »

When most hear about public employment law, they believe the topic involves unions and collective bargaining between government employers and public employee unions.  This is not correct. Although public-sector labor ... Read more »

Supreme Court Takes New First Amendment Public Employment Case

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Category: Constitutional Interpretation, Labor & Employment Law, U.S. Supreme Court | No Comments »

Not exactly Garcetti II, but the United State Supreme Court yeserday granted certiorari in a case involving a ruling affirming a jury verdict for a police chief claiming retaliation under the ... Read more »

NASA v. Nelson and Public Employee Informational Privacy

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Category: Constitutional Interpretation, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy Rights | No Comments »

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in the public employee informational privacy case of NASA v. Nelson (oral tanscript here). Rather than reinvent the wheel on ... Read more »

Pickering Free Speech Rights and Cyberbullying by Public Employees

Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Category: First Amendment, Labor & Employment Law | No Comments »

I can't make this stuff up.  From CNN and Anderson Cooper (with video): For nearly six months, Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan, has waged ... Read more »

Craigslist “Adult Services” Proponent Fired by School District

Monday, September 27th, 2010
Category: Education & Law, Labor & Employment Law | No Comments »

Interesting education and employment law story in the New York Times brought to my attention by one of my employment law students: A teacher at a Bronx elementary school has ... Read more »

District Court Keeps Out Social Framework Evidence in Employment Discrimination Case

Monday, September 27th, 2010
Category: Evidence, Labor & Employment Law | No Comments »

Thanks to Colin Miller over at the Evidence Prof Blog who has an interesting post up today at Feminist Law Professors about an evidence issue near and dear to ... Read more »

Marquette Law Review Symposium – Promoting Employee Voice in the New American Economy

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Category: Labor & Employment Law, Marquette Law School, Speakers at Marquette | No Comments »

The Marquette Law Review Symposium this year will be on a labor and employment law topic.  I had the pleasure of organizing the symposium as part of Marquette's Labor and ... Read more »

ERISA Supreme Court Attorney Fees Case Goes Way of Plaintiffs

Monday, May 24th, 2010
Category: Labor & Employment Law, U.S. Supreme Court | No Comments »

For those who care about ERISA participants and beneficiaries being able to find good counsel for their claims, the U.S. Supreme Court decision this morning in Hardt v. Reliance ... Read more »


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