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The Kansas Board of Regents to endorse a policy making it easier to terminate tenured faculty members. Under existing policy, a Kansas state university first must recognize a “financial exigency.” If implemented, under the new policy a university could reduce tenured faculty positions without that declaration. This would make termination of a tenured faculty member easier, arguably changing contracts of employment represented by tenure. This proposed change raises an interesting question under the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution.   Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 pr...

University of Hawaii Faculty Union Sues Ige Over Furlough Plans - Honolulu Civil Beat University of Hawaii Faculty Union Sues Ige Over Furlough Plans Gov. David Ige said Wednesday that furloughs for state workers — which were set to begin in January — are being delayed, but he hasn’t given a new start date. Reading time: 2 minutes. The labor union representing University of Hawaii faculty sued Gov. David Ige and other state officials in federal court Wednesday in an attempt to halt a plan to furlough government workers starting January 1. The University of Hawaii Professional Assembly ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. As the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading throughout the country and causing widespread disruption throughout New York City, the City Council enacted multiple local ordinances and laws aimed at combating the resulting economic impact.  The "Residential Harassment Law" and the "Commercial Harassment Law" each amended pre-existing ordinances prohibiting landlords from harassing residential and commercial tenants, respectively, out of their lawfully-occupied properties by adding a prohibition ag...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As the public pension community in California is well aware, on July 30, 2020, the California Supreme Court issued its landmark decision on vested rights and the constitutionality of legislative changes to public retirement statutes in Alameda County Deputy Sheriff's Association, et al. v. Alameda County Employees' Retirement Association, et al. (State Of California) (2020) 9 Cal.5th 1032 (“ Alameda”). See our eAlert from July 31, 2020. Soon after issuing Alameda, the Court dismissed two other petitions for review and sent the...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On November 25, 2020, Justice Ronnie Abrams of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision in Melendez, et al. v. The City of New York, et al. (No. 20-CV-5301 (RA) upholding amendments to certain New York City Council ordinances prohibiting landlords from harassing residential and commercial tenants impacted by COVID-19 and preventing landlords from enforcing personal guaranties in commercial leases if the tenant’s monetary default was caused by the pandemic. As the COVID-19 pandemic wa...