Author: The Law Office of Eric R. Brown
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The Charade of Amateur Athletics
Lane Kiffin is a college football coach at the University of Mississippi. There is nothing more important than Ole’ Miss football in Oxford, Mississippi. It is so important that the University pays Coach Kiffin $9 million annually. He has never won a conference championship, much less a national championship.…
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The Verdict Against DeNiro’s Production Company
I have always enjoyed Robert DeNiro’s movies. The Godfather, Part II is, of course, a classic: he portrayed the young Vito Corleone making his way in New York City in the early twentieth century on his way to controlling organized crime. But there are others as well. His role in Meet…
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The Conclusion of the UAW Strike
The UAW successfully concluded its strike of the big three U.S. automakers, coming to tentative agreements with all three in quick succession and leading to big wage increases for union workers. The strike lasted more than 40 days, and in the end the UAW walked away apparent victors.…
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How Protected Is Your Speech?
I never learned much about the creation of the state of Israel nor about the history of conflict between Jewish people and Arab people in the Middle East. I know generally that there has been conflict between Jews and Arabs for as long as I have been alive. I…
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The Dismal CT Bar Exam Pass Rates
When I graduated law school 30 years ago I recall that the final hurdle that I and my classmates faced was the bar exam. There is a mythology about the bar exam that it is an extremely daunting obstacle that must be overcome between graduation from law school and actually appearing in a…
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The UAW Strike’s Effect on Labor
As I am writing this, the UAW has gone on strike in the last day against each of the big three automakers at individual plants in Missouri, Ohio, and Michigan. This year has seen a lot of labor activity as strikes and labor activism have taken center stage. …
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When A Negotiating Tactic Goes Sour
It is “back to school” season. I know there are more than a few of my readers out there right now who are in mourning knowing that sometime this week they report back to the trenches for another school year as educators. It’s not just the educators who…
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A New Ruling on Workplace Discrimination
A couple of weeks ago the Connecticut Supreme Court issued a decision that is likely to give employers around the state a greater level of agita. In Hartford Police Department v. Commission on Human Rights and Opportunites, the Supreme Court reversed the decision of a lower court and found…
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Should UConn Join the Big XII?
I’ve been following the conference realignment stories that have been circulating since the spring about UConn sports. UConn athletics gave us all a gift in 2023 with the resurrection of the football program and the rise to blue blood status by the men’s basketball program. If you…
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The Supreme Court’s Ignorance
It has been a few weeks since the Supreme Court issued its affirmative action decisions in cases involving admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Immediately after the decisions were issued, the usual battle lines were drawn among conservative and liberal commentators, each asserting that the…
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