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[ November 13, 2024 ] New York State Court of Appeals Issues a Long-Awaited Decision in Kane/Keil Cases For Religious Freedom ADVOCATZ
[ October 24, 2024 ] San Francisco BART Workers Fired Due To COVID Vaccine Mandate Each Win More Than $1 Million at Trial ADVOCATZ Op-Ed
[ October 20, 2024 ] The Wave Editorial: Give City Workers Their Jobs Back ADVOCATZ
[ October 13, 2024 ] Two Judges in Canada’s Nova Scotia Province In Battle Over Vaccine Disclosure ADVOCATZ
[ September 28, 2024 ] Staten Island Superintendent Marion Wilson Ousted From Job After Angry Rages Against “White” Principals is Promoted to Admin. Position Teaching ‘Racial Equity’ ADVOCATZ

Joseph Margulies Urges Amazon To Pick Boston As Its Second Headquarters

April 30, 2018 Betsy Combier 0

National Public Voice But he wants the administrators/politicians of the city which Amazon ultimately picks to be cautious and plan the transformation of the surrounding area appropriately. We agree. Betsy Combier betsy@advocatz.com ADVOCATZ.com Joseph Margulies: […]

Arbitration decisions: Are They in Compliance With The JUST CAUSE STANDARD?

April 29, 2018 Betsy Combier 0

Arbitration decisions: Are They in Compliance With The JUST CAUSE STANDARD – or is the Penalty Determined Under the JUST ‘CAUSE Someone Dislikes You Standard? If you are working in disciplinary hearings or 3020-a arbitration, […]

New Sexual Harassment Policies Are Enforced – or Not

April 29, 2018 Betsy Combier 0

New York State has new sexual harassment policies on the books. Yay for us. But these policies are not uniformly enforced, according to sources. The saying goes: “a law is only as good as its’ […]

NYPD Blues: De Blasio Takes Over

April 26, 2018 Betsy Combier 0

NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio LINK Bill de Blasio and Phil Walzak From NYC Public Voice In 2011, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg got himself in hot water when he declared “I have my own […]

The Ruderman White Paper on Law, Media, Disability

April 25, 2018 Betsy Combier 0

DF version available for download here For a searchable database of all 2013-2015 news coverage of police violence involving persons with disabilities, click here. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Disability is the missing word in media coverage of police violence. […]

AP: Sexual Assaults in High School Sports Minimized As “Hazing”

April 25, 2018 Betsy Combier 0

Across the U.S., perhaps nowhere is student-on-student sexual assault as dismissed or as camouflaged as in boys’ sports, an Associated Press investigation found. Mischaracterized as hazing and bullying, the violence is so normalized on some […]

Betsy Combier Unravels The 3020-a Arbitration Procedure in New York City

April 25, 2018 Betsy Combier 1

The 3020-a Arbitration charging process used in New York City needs to be fixed, and in particular the omission of a vote in Executive Session by the New York City Panel For Educational Policy which is mandated by […]

U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case on Teacher Free-Speech Protection

April 14, 2018 Betsy Combier 0

National Public Voice EDWEEK By Mark Walsh March 19, 2018 The question is, “how much freedom of speech protection may a teacher expect?” The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the appeal of […]

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Proxy Access To Universal Health Services

April 14, 2018 Betsy Combier 0

National Public Voice By Tara Bannow, Modern Healthcare, April 5, 2018NYC comptroller seeks more control at UHS, other companies New York City’s comptroller isn’t giving up on his uphill battle to get proxy access to for-profit hospital chain […]

Teacher Tenure Time Almost Up

April 8, 2018 Betsy Combier 0

Due to the disarray of the teacher discipline hearings, as well as the lack of accountability inside the New York City Department of Education where good teachers are fined/suspended without pay/terminated often for no reason, […]

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San Francisco BART Workers Fired Due To COVID Vaccine Mandate Each Win More Than $1 Million at Trial

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The Award handed down by the jury in this case to the fired BART workers is historic. I hope this will lead the way for all unvaccinated workers throughout America to get their jobs back. […]

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NYC is Forcing Unionized Public Employees Into At-Will Terms of Employment

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The focus of this post is to show how misleading the picture above is. The joke is on us, because the second bubble should say “but now I can do it with the union Just […]

Team Advocatz: OP-ED

Advocatz OPINION: The NY State Employment Medical Exam Scam Part 2: Education Law §2568

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Has your employer ordered you to go to a psychiatrist who will determine whether or not you are “fit to work”? Outside of New York City the fit-to-work examination is called a “Section §913 examination”. […]

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New York State Court of Appeals Issues a Long-Awaited Decision in Kane/Keil Cases For Religious Freedom November 14, 2024
The COA DECISION-Kane-Keil ends this case for all Plaintiffs except two from this Group. There is no class action. Picture at left: Nationally known religious rights Attorney John Bursch, February 8, 2023 on the steps [...] The post New York State Court of Appeals Issues a Long-Awaited Decision in Kane/Keil Cases For Religious Freedom appeared […]
Betsy Combier
San Francisco BART Workers Fired Due To COVID Vaccine Mandate Each Win More Than $1 Million at Trial October 25, 2024
The Award handed down by the jury in this case to the fired BART workers is historic. I hope this will lead the way for all unvaccinated workers throughout America to get their jobs back. [...] The post San Francisco BART Workers Fired Due To COVID Vaccine Mandate Each Win More Than $1 Million at […]
Betsy Combier
The Wave Editorial: Give City Workers Their Jobs Back October 20, 2024
This editorial must be heard by New York’s political machine because New York City needs its’ municipal workers put back into their jobs, same salary and all benefits as before they were wrongfully terminated or [...] The post The Wave Editorial: Give City Workers Their Jobs Back appeared first on Advocatz.
Betsy Combier
Two Judges in Canada’s Nova Scotia Province In Battle Over Vaccine Disclosure October 14, 2024
Picture: A dispute involving two Nova Scotia judges and the province’s top judge landed in Supreme Court on Thursday. (Robert Short/CBC) Court strikes down lawsuit against Nova Scotia judge Plaintiff had argued that forcing vaccine disclosure [...] The post Two Judges in Canada’s Nova Scotia Province In Battle Over Vaccine Disclosure appeared first on Advocatz.
Betsy Combier
Staten Island Superintendent Marion Wilson Ousted From Job After Angry Rages Against “White” Principals is Promoted to Admin. Position Teaching ‘Racial Equity’ September 29, 2024
Re-posted from NYC Rubber Room Reporter and ATR Connect: This is too funny. I know this sordid tale quite well. In 2023, after a many-month 3020-a arbitration for a former teacher at PS 46, it [...] The post Staten Island Superintendent Marion Wilson Ousted From Job After Angry Rages Against “White” Principals is Promoted to […]
Betsy Combier
NYC is Forcing Unionized Public Employees Into At-Will Terms of Employment September 24, 2024
The focus of this post is to show how misleading the picture above is. The joke is on us, because the second bubble should say “but now I can do it with the union Just [...] The post NYC is Forcing Unionized Public Employees Into At-Will Terms of Employment appeared first on Advocatz.
Betsy Combier
Former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo And Dr. Jay Varma Admit That No Authority Existed For The COVID Mandate Terminations September 20, 2024
The statements in the video posted below are indeed shocking. Despite what we, the concerned public, all “know” about the power of government over the power of human rights – which is that human rights [...] The post Former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo And Dr. Jay Varma Admit That No Authority Existed For The COVID […]
Betsy Combier
Former NYC Department of Education School Food Exec. Gets 2 Years in Jail For Serving Tainted Food To Students September 12, 2024
Ex-DOE exec gets 2 years for serving tainted chicken to students Eric Goldstein (right), the former head of school food operations in the city public school system, was sentenced to two years in prison for [...] The post Former NYC Department of Education School Food Exec. Gets 2 Years in Jail For Serving Tainted Food […]
Betsy Combier
Children’s Health Defense Loses Its Case Against Facebook (META) Censorship August 14, 2024
CHD may file an Appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court citing the dissenting opinion of Judge Daniel P. Collins, who wrote that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals should have considered additional evidence CHD submitted [...] The post Children’s Health Defense Loses Its Case Against Facebook (META) Censorship appeared first on Advocatz.
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Whistleblower Case Against Merck Over MMR Vaccine Dismissed August 14, 2024
We agree with Mary Holland. This is a sad day for justice. Editor Betsy Combier Breaking: Appeals Court Dismisses Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Merck Over MMR Vaccine A federal appeals court upheld a 2023 lower court [...] The post Whistleblower Case Against Merck Over MMR Vaccine Dismissed appeared first on Advocatz.
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