The U.S. economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate dropped to a near three-year low, offering a hopeful sign for hiring in the year ahead. Read more…

The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restricted the police’s ability to use a GPS device to track criminal suspects in a first test of how privacy rights will be protected in the digital age.

The court rejected the government’s view that long-term surveillance of a suspect by GPS tracking is no different than traditional, low-tech forms of monitoring. But its decision was nuanced and incremental, leaving open the larger questions of how government may use the information generated by modern technology for surveillance purposes. Read more…

An opinion letter from the EEOC was recently released which addresses the American’s with Disability Act (ADA) and hiring practices. In effect, it states that an employer may not have a high school diploma requirement for a job if that requirement eliminates an individual who is unable to obtain a high school diploma because of a learning disability that meets the ADA’s definition of disability. Any hiring criteria that would cause a disparate impact on persons with disabilities can only be maintained if it is job related and a necessity. Read more…