Seattle Police Pose as Mail Carriers And Can Lie to Suspects Legally

This Seattle Times police blog article presents two controversial issues: Seattle police say they sometimes pose as mail carriers. How do mail carriers feel about being put at risk this way? Does the Postal Service know about this police practice and approve its use? In some undercover operations, officers pose as utility workers, mail carriers […]

Supreme Court Rules More Than 500 NLRB Cases Will Have To Be Reopened

Court: 2-Person Labor Board Can’t Make Decisions – ABC News: More than 500 decisions by the leading federal agency that referees disputes between labor and management will have to be reopened after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the five-member board had operated illegally when its membership dwindled to two.  The high court, in a […]

Supreme Court to Hear Postal Worker’s Retaliation Case

Myrna Gómez-Pérez, a window distribution clerk from Puerto Rico, filed a lawsuit in District Court claiming that the U.S. Postal Service retaliated against her because she filed an equal employment opportunity complaint with her employer alleging discrimination on the basis of age. The District Court ruled in favor of USPS holding that “the United States had not […]