Board Certified Labor and Employment Lawyer. Complex employment and civil rights litigation for humans. Tampa Bay based but always a Pittsburgh guy. www.employeerights.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3mtfe6brjx22qRefresh, refresh, refresh. Is it because I want to know what happened in the Florida primaries or because I want to know if Betty went Pi Delta Pi or Omega Mu?18 Aug 2026 23:20 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfe6brjx22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3mrxuddc57c2pDo you know about the racist history of tipping employees? “The subminimum wage in the United States is a uniquely American institution that is rooted in the exploitation of formerly enslaved Black workers following emancipation.” https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-tipping/31 Jul 2026 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrxuddc57c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3mrnwqtuff22cWhen reporting on court decisions, reporters should always link to the actual decisions. Let people see what the judge actually ruled.27 Jul 2026 22:23 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnwqtuff22chttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3mnvdnxwogs2qThe Florida Attorney General just issued an opinion letter which is says, “The LORD-author of our natural rights and duties.” Seems to miss the whole separation of church and state thing.09 Jun 2026 23:22 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnvdnxwogs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3mks67tliwc2vYale: $44 billion endowment. Zero courage. They deleted “improving the world,” “aspiring leaders worldwide,” and “free exchange of ideas in an ethical, interdependent, and diverse community” from their mission statement. The institutions best positioned to stand up keep choosing not to. https://yaledailynews.com/articles/yale-following-report-narrows-its-mission-statement-to-focus-on-knowledge01 May 2026 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mks67tliwc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3mjn443unc22yFla Bar Rule amendment draws dissent from new Justice Tanenbaum. Says updating “psychological problems” with “mental health conditions” is outsourcing, the DSM-5 is a “living document”(scare quotes his), and Bar should stop spending money helping lawyers with addiction & illness. https://flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/download/2487515/opinion/Opinion_SC2025-1172.pdf16 Apr 2026 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjn443unc22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3mhyr4xoqv22xThey are showing really weird camera angles for the Texas - Purdue game and they need to cut it out.26 Mar 2026 23:30 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhyr4xoqv22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3mdlpwvkohs2vThe Eleventh Circuit held today that a sheriff’s deputy who drove drunk in his patrol car, caused a fatal crash, and fled the scene was entitled to qualified immunity. https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202310954.pdf29 Jan 2026 21:24 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdlpwvkohs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3mcdoomqgak27The Fla Attorney General just filed a really weird request for rehearing in his attempt to get the Fla Sup Ct to allow out of state lawyers to practice in Florida without taking the Bar exam or passing character and fitness. His logic applies to virtually all lawyers so let’s abolish the Bar Exam!13 Jan 2026 23:15 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcdoomqgak27https://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3mc4p6rky7c2tI forget what 8 was for.11 Jan 2026 04:35 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc4p6rky7c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3mba55zlmoc26Florida Supreme Court rules sperm donor uninvolved in child’s life may have parental rights. Majority includes tortured reading of Florida law including a lengthy discussion of “a” vs “the” Dissent discusses how Court has created a child with 3 parents. https://flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/download/2483054/opinion/Opinion_SC2024-1184&%20SC2024-1190.pdf30 Dec 2025 19:58 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mba55zlmoc26https://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3m6ubdgi2gs2nI asked the AI and it said making stuff up for a report about healthcare seemed like a problem but it was really fine. https://fortune.com/2025/11/25/deloitte-caught-fabricated-ai-generated-research-million-dollar-report-canada-government/30 Nov 2025 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ubdgi2gs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3m6kkioy3mk2kAnother huge opinion from 11th Cir. Florida utility, its CEO and allegations “corporate malfeasance, bribery, off-the-books recordkeeping,surveilling journalists, creating ‘ghost’ candidates, corrupting independent media outlets, … “ https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202413372.pdf26 Nov 2025 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6kkioy3mk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3m6k577wkzk2dEleventh Circuit upholds sanctions order against Trump and Habba. Pryor authors opinion with Brasher and Kidd. https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202213410.pdf26 Nov 2025 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6k577wkzk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3m5hpvdpav22zWe are honored to be partners with ACLU of Florida on this important fight. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Nov 2025 22:41 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5hpvdpav22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3m5hkjtn7k22kWe are honored to be partners with the ACLU of Florida in fighting for the free speech rights of government employees. “Through this lawsuit, we’re standing up for every public employee whose rights have been chilled by government retaliation.” https://www.aclufl.org/press-releases/state-employee-sues-eastern-florida-state-college-board-of-trustees-for-retaliatory-firing-over-protected-speech/12 Nov 2025 21:05 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5hkjtn7k22khttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3m535zbdcq22zThe video of the head of Conde Nast Human Resources refusing to speak with employees shows what looks a lot like protected concerted activity to me. 🤷👩‍⚖️⚖️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Nov 2025 22:49 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m535zbdcq22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3m4qsns4i4c24Major win for my firm in Johnson v. Nocco (M.D. Fla.). Court holds that arrest of passenger for refusal to provide ID violated the 4th Amendment. We’ll keep fighting to ensure law enforcement respect all of our constitutional rights. https://ecf.flmd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2020-01370-129-8-cv03 Nov 2025 19:59 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qsns4i4c24https://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3m4ji2l4qxc2wIf I opened a late night restaurant near a college that only sold pizza bagels would I make millions or billions?31 Oct 2025 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ji2l4qxc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3m3mrd4kobk27“If you’re a law firm, … saying … we're going to represent who we want, and we're going to stand up for what we think is our core mission of upholding the law. And maybe we'll lose some business for that, but that's what we believe. That's what's needed.” Barack Obama WTF with Marc Maron 10/13/25 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast/id32987504320 Oct 2025 11:59 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3mrd4kobk27https://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3m36ed77vok2pFlorida Republican State Senator Erin Grall has filed a new parental rights bill to require people under 18 to get their guardians’ permission in order to be treated for sexually transmissible diseases or receive information on contraception. https://floridapolitics.com/archives/760369-erin-grall-files-bill-that-would-require-minors-to-get-guardians-permission-for-std-treatment/14 Oct 2025 18:29 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m36ed77vok2phttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3m2uzxklbe22bFlorida Polytechnic eliminated its general counsel claiming it’s a cost savings measure. I will bet dollars to donuts they hire an expensive and politically connected Republican law firm to now do their legal work. The grift never stops.11 Oct 2025 01:30 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2uzxklbe22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3lzez2uasss2lLISTEN IN: To MidPoint on WMNF Free Speech Roundtable on Wed. 9/24, 10 am on 88.5 fm wmnf.org. Join lawyers Ryan Barack of employeerights.com, James Shaw former Chair ACLU of FL Legal Panel and Tiffany Hilton, former V.P. ACLU of FL for a discussion of free speech rights and the 1st Amendment. https://wmnf.org21 Sep 2025 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzez2uasss2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3lz7alpzdx22iHere is Judge Merryday’s order striking Trump’s complaint. Merryday is a stickler for the rules and an order like this should have been expected. In some ways this helps Trump because it tells his lawyers to clean up their pleading without having to respond to a substantive motion to dismiss [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Sep 2025 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz7alpzdx22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/law4employees.bsky.social/post/3lyimrmvudk2qThe Florida Bar filed a comment on the petition of the Fla Attorney General and others to allow out of state attorneys to practice law in Florida without having to pass the Bar Exam. You can read it here. https://acis-api.flcourts.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13/cms/case/daff4cc7-46a1-4cee-8f05-7d3dce84a5d8/docketentrydocuments/b1bdf1a3-3b1f-4eb8-ac58-8e1801eccef010 Sep 2025 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:ybldpffkpxj5x4dititz2pwd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyimrmvudk2q