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• Get Me Out Of Here! Drunk On Board

  November 01, 2012 - by Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News A drunk man on Delta Flight 1215 thought the plane was on fire when the aircraft landed in Salt Lake City October 16, triggering a frantic effort by the Ukrainian man to open the rear door of the aircraft, and a furious struggle with some passengers to restrain him.  According to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court in Utah, the flight departed from Boston’s Logan Airport.  The passenger told FBI agents that he was returning to Portland, Oregon, after visiting relatives in his native Ukraine. According to the FBI, when he ran to the rear of the aircraft, a flight attendant ordered him to stop, but was unable to prevent him from opening the emergency exit door on...

• It Was The Bad Check That Did them In

  November 01, 2012 - by Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News A Lawrenceville, Georgia couple was convicted for a tax defiance scheme after claiming that they...

• Not A Good Idea To Bring Hand Grenade to Government Office

  November 01, 2012 - by Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News A man recentlytook a grenade he found on a south Memphis,Tennessee lot to Memphis Fire Station No...

• Think Having HIV Is Not a Crime? Think Again

  November 01, 2012 - By Sean Strub At the beginning of the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, profound stigma and discrimination is a fact of life for those with th...

• Newark, NJ Bans The Background Check

  November 01, 2012 - by Les Rosen Effective November 18, 2012, an Ordinance passed by Newark, New Jersey will impose restrictions on employers in the city with five...

• Les Rosen's Corner

  October 01, 2012 - According to regulations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), three essential forms mandated by the federal Fair Credit Reporting...

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  A System For Compensating Victims That Needs Fixing

  October 01, 2012 - by Hassan Hassan In pre-Islamic Arabian history, a cycle of revenge between two major tribe...

• How We Fudge Cheating

  October 01, 2012 - by Michael Roth Behavioural economist Dan Ariely is a funny guy on a mission. As director of the Centre for Advanced Hindsight, he insists on a...

• Men Make Women Drink

  October 01, 2012 - By Laura Berman A number of studies have highlighted the physical and emotional benefits of marriage: Research has shown that married people ar...

• Derek Hinton's Column

  October 01, 2012 - Protecting Yourself "Should an intruder attack you in your home, you are likely to be within your rights if you pick up an item such as a...

• Les Rosen's Corner Eeoc Must Testify On Own Use Of Criminal Background Checks

  September 26, 2012 - A federal district Court in Maryland has ruled that an employer sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for alleged discriminato...

• New EEOC Rules Adds To Employers Decison Making Woes

  September 01, 2012 - by Mark Fijman In a lifetime of crime, Willie Sutton robbed banks of almost $2,000,000.00. From 1934 through 1947 he was one of the nation'...

• Les Rosen's Corner EEOC Must Testify On Own Use Of Criminal Background Checks

  September 01, 2012 - A federal district Court in Maryland has ruled that an employer sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for alleged discriminato...

• New Indiana Law Regarding Criminal Background Checks

  August 01, 2012 - by Beth Zoller As of July 1, 2012, Indiana employers are now prohibited from conducting certain preemployment inquiries and are restricted in t...

• SHRM Background Check Survey Finds Nearly 70 Percent of Organizations Conduct Criminal Checks on All

  August 01, 2012 - by Tom Ahearn Nearly seven out of ten organizations "69 percent " conduct criminal background checks on all of their job candidate...

• Les Rosen's Corner Vermont to Limit Employers From Using Credit Reports for Employment Decisions

  August 01, 2012 - Continuing the trend of states stopping employers from routinely obtaining credit reports on applicants and employees to use in making employment d...

• Grim Times For Background Checkers

  July 01, 2012 - By Steven Brownstein Hardly a day goes by we don't hear something about the new EEOC ruling. We get news alerts, E-Mails, phone calls,...

• Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News

  July 01, 2012 - Police Gone Wild A South Carolina woman said police escorted her out of her daughter's graduation for cheering and charged her with disorde...