by davidnacht | Mar 13, 2020 | Firm News, Nacht Law in the News
In the past two days, Americans have turned from a people in denial to a people under siege. In our lifetimes, we have not seen workplaces, schools, professional sports and concerts so dramatically affected except for a few days after September 11, 2001. We can...
by davidnacht | Feb 21, 2020 | American values, Employment Law, Firm News
One of the things we do at NachtLaw is counsel students and employees grappling with mental health disability. Increasingly, as the linked article below shows, workers are not afraid to seek accommodations. Historically, the fear of stigma prevented many employees...
by davidnacht | Feb 11, 2020 | Firm News
I read this piece in The Washington Post, ‘You’re going to get shot’: Video shows school police officer threatening student leaving campus with excused absence’, today about police threatening to shoot the very children they are supposed to protect at school and...
by davidnacht | Feb 7, 2020 | Firm News
The Government cannot legally look for sleeper cells of potential terrorists by detaining US citizens of Iranian origin randomly without evidence giving them suspicion. There is a world of difference between searching and questioning foreigners and treating Americans...
by davidnacht | Jan 30, 2020 | Articles
I have previously blogged about the recent interest of the federal regulatory and law enforcement community in scholars who collaborate with Chinese institutions. January 2020 has increased the public profile of these investigations with the felony indictment against...
by davidnacht | Jan 21, 2020 | American values, Firm News
One thing I hear routinely from people of all political stripes is how disappointed they are in the United States of America. The nonstop drumbeat of negativity dominates the news, the politics and of course, the social media. The outrage and fury emanating from...
by davidnacht | Jan 13, 2020 | Nacht Law in the News
We aren’t involved in this case, regarding the firing of Warren De La Salle football coach Mike Giannone, but it typifies a conversation happening across schools and communities. We hear about these conversations from clients who are bullied and from coaches and...
by davidnacht | Jan 6, 2020 | Firm News
The US and China are increasingly in a Cold War. Our political systems differ dramatically. Tensions in geopolitical influence and specifically economic and military competition in the Pacific are significant. Recently, intellectual property theft and trade...
by davidnacht | Dec 16, 2019 | Firm News
Regular readers of the Nacht blog will note that I enjoy stories that prove principles but feature a cast of characters that differs from the typical. From the beginning I found it disturbing that the FBI spied on the Trump Presidential campaign. Yet many people...
