Sexual Abuse Isn't About Sex, But About Abuse of Power As an employment and civil rights lawyer doing a great deal of work to act against both work and school sexual and other forms of bias-based harassment, I'm often asked, sometimes smugly (and thus always in those...
Year: 2011
New Jersey Civil Rights Attorney Opposes Christie’s Remarks About Judge Feinberg
If You Can't Say Something Nice... I'm a big boy now. I understand that politics is a dirty business no matter whom you happen to support. I get that our governor has his fans, fans who will excuse anything he does because, having drank the kool-aid, there's nothing...
New Jersey Harassment Lawyer Discusses Gay Bashing Statements by Public School Teacher
Shocking Gay Bashing Statements by New Jersey Public School Teacher Frankly, the title really doesn't convey just how unbelievable - and yet sadly believable - this breaking story seems to be. From what we can glean, and as reported in the October 13, 2011 Star...
The Occupation of New York City – What it Means to You
I had an opportunity to watch the news regarding the protest movement called "The Occupation of New York City. "I also had an opportunity to review "the declaration" document of the group that sponsored the protest, the "Direct Democracy Occupation Group." As I...
The End of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’
I'm 45-years-old now. When I was a kid, my father told me "Don't judge a man unless you've walked a mile in his moccasins." It was an old saying when I was young, but in our haste to continue our national "evolution", we've developed some blind spots when it comes to...
Justice is About More Than Money
The attacks on the jury system in this country continue in their vociferousness, their ignorance, their dishonesty and their hatred. The corporate, banking, insurance and financial worlds have all combined, since the early 1980's, in a very clever campaign to besmirch...
Proud to be an American
As a Civil Rights Lawyer sworn by oath to defend the interests of those least capable of defending themselves, I often find cause to define the phrase "Proud to be an American" in a way different from the typical. This is understandable by dint of professional...
The Steady Slide Toward Theocracy in the United States
Although nothing coming out of this Supreme Court should really surprise me anymore, the shear chutzpah of the reactionary justices on the Court is sometimes shocking.On April 4, 2011, the United States Supreme Court, in a five to four decision typical of the divide...
The ‘Nullification’ Amendment and the Destruction of America
When the very brilliant and prescient framers of the Constitution wrote the document which was the first of its kind in the world and which has withstood the test of time and political tidal action to form the bedrock of the American way of life, they created a...
Honorable Republican Against Tort Reform
Some of you may know the name Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican senator from the state of Tennessee. I've never known too much about his personal politics, because I've never made it my business to know much about Tennessee and, admittedly, as a Progressive,...