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This listing includes a distinguished bunch — including Jamie Galbraith.  Ultimately, despite the intellectual weight and prestige of this group, their pleas will go unheard — the Administration has spent the past two years ignoring the same people who railed against the defeat of regulation on the banks, and spoke openly during th

Well, that is an understatement.  However, one of the proposed bills targets speech — speech which was specifically the subject of successful litigation of which I was a direct part of the legal team.  In approximately 2008, Jack Stelmack served as an elementary school principal in Lakeland, Florida.  Without getting too deeply

Grateful acknowledgment to Harvey Kaye and New Deal 2.0: As many of you know, The Brett Law Firm Blog serves a dual purpose:  (1) Discussion of legal issues; and (2) Discussion of political economic issues.  The ongoing fight of public employees cuts across both areas.  The current threat from reactionary governors and legislators, s

First, I will, for once, quote Ronald Reagan, who stated that “one of the most elemental human rights [is] the right to belong to a free trade union.”  See http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12392 for more on Reagan’s commentary. We are presently witnessing an unprecedented assault upon workers’ rights to organize and

Last evening, I was fulfilled by the opportunity of being a special guest lecturer at an ACLU function.  The principal topic of the discussion was Free Speech on the Internet.  Also, I did not realize — until after the lecture — that there was an extraordinarily special guest in the audience.  Bernard Cohen approached me