Yesterday the United States Supreme Court agreed to consider whether a police officer has a reasonable expectation of privacy in text messages sent using his department-issued pager.  The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled earlier this year that the officer had such a privacy right.  Click here to read the opinion below in City of Ontario, California v. Quon

Oregon’s anti-discrimination statute allows an employee alleging employment discrimination to file either a lawsuit (which results in a jury trial) or an administrative complaint with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (which results in an administrative hearing with no jury). In Emerald v. Bureau of Labor, the employer argued that allowing an employee to arbitrarily choose whether or not there will be a jury trial violates the employer’s right to a jury trial under the Oregon Constitution.  Not so, ruled the Oregon Court of Appeals earlier this week.  Continue Reading Oregon Court of Appeals Upholds Employment Discrimination Statute