The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion. The question of how this freedom to exercise one´s religion intersects with one´s employment rights was considered for the first time by the United States Supreme Court in the recently decided case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission et al. Hosanna involved Cheryl Perich, a teacher ("Teacher") at a Lutheran (Missouri Synod) Church School ("Church School") who was terminated after it was revealed that she had narcolepsy. She, through the advocacy of the Equal ...
I am frequently contacted by persons who are astonished that they have lost their jobs for what they allege is retaliation for complaining about their supervisors, complaining about some company policy or complaining about their work conditions. What they have in common is that they all believe that their right to complain in general is somehow legally protected. That is certainly not the case for the most part, unless there is some type of law which provides this protection, usually known as a whistleblower law, or there is some legal protection for reporting waste or fraud to a government agency, ...
On February 14, 2012, Faye Riva Cohen, Esquire will be a presenter at a National Business Institute seminar taking place in Philadelphia entitled "Social Security Disability Bootcamp."
On February 1, 2012, James W. Cushing, Esquire helped lead a seminar at Renewal Presbyterian Church regarding the work of the Christian Legal Clinics of Philadelphia. Click on the links to learn more!
I suspect what has happened to make the law so complicated is that more and more laws, rules, regulations, etc. (referred to in this article as “laws”) have been, and continue to be, added daily by every governmental entity, as it is easier to create new laws then thoroughly examine or repeal existing laws. This is much like the process when Presidential candidates pledge on the campaign trail that if elected, they will eliminate or consolidate government departments and cabinet positions. This rarely happens because of the enormity of the task, the power struggles between the various departments, and because ...
Upcoming Social Security Seminar on 2/14/12!
Faye Riva Cohen, Esquire will be among the presenters at the upcoming seminar: http://www.nbi-sems.com/SemTeleDetails.aspx/R-58069ER%7C?ctname=SPKEM
In the episode entitled “The Barbarian Sublimation” of the television show The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon complains to his roommate Leonard that the addiction of their neighbor Penny to online gaming, and her constant questioning about how to defeat certain boards and enemies, has caused him great aggravation and detracted from his daily night’s sleep. When Leonard asks Sheldon why he doesn’t simply tell Penny to leave him alone, Sheldon replies, “I did! I told her, I texted her, I sent out a very emphatic Twitter, I even changed my Facebook status to ‘Sheldon Cooper wishes Penny would leave him ...
Nearly two millennia ago, Jesus of Nazareth sagely taught his followers to “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's”. In the 21st century it appears that the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania had similar advice for a Cheltenham congregation of the First Korean Church of New York, Inc. (hereinafter “the Church”) in the recent matter of First Korean Church of New York, Inc. v. Montgomery County Board of Assessment Appeals, Cheltenham Township, Cheltenham Township School District, Montgomery County, and Montgomery County Board of Commissioners (1551 CD 2010) (hereinafter “the Case”). Montgomery County Board of Assessment Appeals, Cheltenham Township, Cheltenham Township School ...
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The Internet and the Law The Internet is a two edged sword when it comes to the law. On the one hand, I am often pleasantly surprised to learn how much knowledge a current or potential client has received from the many hours they have surfed the Internet. On the other hand, much of that knowledge is not relevant to their issue, raises expectations of their case beyond what the facts of their case would deliver in a court of law, and often has no relevancy to the laws ofPennsylvania, where I practice and where ...
