On February 19th, I wrote a column, Eroding Employee Rights Has Opened Door for Unions for the Greenville News in support of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which began:
Never before in my almost 17 years of representing employees with work-related disputes have I gotten so many calls. So many I can’t take them all: People not getting paid for the hours they work, not getting commissions for sales as promised, and being fired for no reason at all. I have met with more people in a 90-day period who have been fired for no fault of their own, but who on the way out the door were presented with a noncompete agreement signed months or years earlier under threat of discharge. Employers who do such things cannot blame employees when they call an employment attorney or when they join forces and form a union.
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Nursing home care is not improving. And although I believe that 
Jurors are instructed not to conduct independent research about issues in the cases they are selected to decide. They must decide the case on the evidence presented. They must not discuss the case until deliberations and then, only while in active deliberations with other jurors. But, as a series of cases over the last week have demonstrated, locking jurors away in a room no longer guarantees they will be cut off from the outside world.
