November 2021

November 4, 2021 Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in what portends to be a landmark case with respect rights endowed by the Second Amendment.  After the arguments were rendered, some experts opined that given the questions posed by SCOTUS justices, the arguments proffered in response, and the conservative tilt of SCOTUS, itself, […]

November 3, 2021 Question 2 on the ballot in Minneapolis in this year’s election has be rejected by more than the requisite margin.  Question 2 concerned replacing the Minneapolis Police Department with a newly-formed “Department of Public Safety.”  Given the failed attempted to abolish the Ithaca, New York, Police Department, in a likewise manner, the

November 3, 2021 New Yorkers decisively voted to abandon Propositions 1, 3, and, 4, on the ballot yesterday.  Geographic redistricting for election purposes by the party in power, same-day voter registration, and, easing of restrictions on absentee ballot voting, have all been rejected in this year’s election.

November 1, 2021 The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently advised that “the definition of religion is broad and protects beliefs, practices, and observances with which the employer may be unfamiliar[…t]herefore, the employer should ordinarily assume that an employee’s request for religious accommodation is based on a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or