In N.Y., employment bias suits go begging; lawyers prefer an angry inmate to a disgruntled employee as a pro bono client

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New York's Southern District Pro Se Office finds employment discrimination suits the toughest ones to place, and state lawyers rank them even lower than prisoner civil rights suits as desirable pro bono cases. Most firms represent management and do not want an employment discrimination client because of the possibility of a conflict. One attorney suggested mandatory pro bono, with law firms who might have a conflict with an assigned case then responsible for finding an attorney to handle it.

New York, Management, Pro bono legal services, Pro se representation

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In Kooritzky, the D.C. Circuit sidestepped traditional deference shown to substantive rule-making by invalidating labor regulation on procedural grounds

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The federal courts have been unsupportive of substantive challenges to agency regulations since the Supreme Court's 1984 Chevron decision. In Kooritzky v. Reich, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit allowed a procedural challenge to such regulations, invalidating a Department of Labor regulation limiting the hiring of aliens. The court ruled that the regulation was adopted without allowing the notice a-and-comment period required under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Analysis, Judicial review of administrative acts

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