WIRTW #148 (the “people sue for the darndest things” edition

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Three stories caught my eye this week: Lawsuit of the Day: Pass the Wooden Dildo, Please (via Abovethelaw.com), Gay Skydiving Instructor Sues Over Firing (via Legal Blog Watch), and “Chocolate Delicious” and Man-on-Man Harassment (via Philip Miles’s Lawffice Space). If those headlines don’t garner clicks, none will.

Here’s the rest of what I read this week:

SCOTUS

• Supreme Court Watch: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 – from Maribeth Minella at the Delaware Employment Law Blog

• SCOTUS: Is an oral complaint protected conduct under FLSA’s anti-retaliation provision? – from LawMemo Employment Law Blog

• Argument preview: The Fair Labor Standards Act and oral complaints – from SCOTUSblog

• Supreme Court to Hear Three Employment Cases This Term – from Patrick Smith’s Iowa Employment Law Blog

• U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Donning and Doffing Case – from Wage & Hour Counsel

Family Responsibility

• Being a great dad – it’s all in the definition – from Rob Schwartz’s Fairness Matters

• Employee Entitled to Maintain Lawsuit for Interference with FMLA Rights Even though Employer Granted All FMLA Leave Requested – from The FMLA Blog

• How Employers Can Minimize the Risk of Family Responsibilities Discrimination (FRD): Developing a Prevention Plan – from George Lenard’s George’s Employment Blawg

• Family Friendly Workplace? When the Sh!t Hits The Fan – from Tanya Barham at Fistful of Talent

• FMLA FAQ - Can an employee fill out his own medical certification? – from FMLA Insights

• Deathbed Emails - Is There a “Sick Day” Double Standard? – from Wayne Turmel at bnet

Discrimination

• The “Commonsense” Bill and Its Nonsensical Implications – from Stephanie Thomas’s Compensation Cafe

• Steps an employer should take to reduce the possibility of sexual harassment occurring in their workplace – from Employment Law Bits

• Drunk — and Disabled? – from The Word on Employment Law with John Phillips

• EEOC to Hold Meeting on the Use of Credit History as Employment Screening Device from Washington D.C. Employment Law Update

• Obesity - Physical characteristic or physical impairment – from GT LE Blog

• $2 Million Jury Verdict Against a Wisconsin School District For Violating the ADAAA – from Minnesota Labor & Employment Law Blog

• Record ADA claims should wake up employers – from Jane Lewis Volk at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Litigation

• Sleight of hand and litigation statistics – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered

• 2010 Fulbright Litigation Trends Survey Shows Increase In Employment Litigation – from Laconic Law Blog

• “The onslaught of wage and hour litigation continues unabated” – how will you protect yourself? – from CPEhr’s Small Biz HR Blog

Trade Secrets & Non-Competes

• Coaches & Non-Competes – from Rob Radcliff’s Smooth Transitions

• Blog post violated nonsolicitation clause in Amway agreement – from Evan Brown’s Internet Cases

• Garden Leave as Consideration for a Non-Compete? – from Trade Secrets & Non-Compete Blog

• Bank of America Sues Ex-Programmer for Trade Secret Theft – from Trade Secrets Blog

• To Poach or Not to Poach: Now a Federal Question? – from Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog

HR

• How Not to RIF – from Workplace Prof Blog

• 20 Common HR Metrics & Their Formulas – from Where Great Workplaces Start

• Interviewing the hostile witness – from Stephen Meyer’s HR Cafe

• Low-Tech Monitoring of Employees Can Result In Employer Liability from Employer Law Report

Miscellaneous

• Social Media Now More Popular E-Mail on Mobile Devices vmashable.com

• NLRB ABCs – from Manpower Employment Blawg

• Employers should confirm their I-9 verification policies and systems are working properly – from Ryan Rivchun’s Business, Employment and Real Estate Law in Ohio

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