Dan Driver’s rapidly growing computer IT business Byte Back is busier than ever and needs help. Not forgetting his cash flow crunches of 2007, Dan is watching labor costs steadily rise. Healthcare insurance is his #2 greatest expense behind wages. All of this talk about employee healthcare insurance has left Byte Back paralyzed as an
Constitutional Rights & Issues
Do TSA “Pat Downs” Violate the 4th Amendment?
By Jamie Ribman on
Posted in Constitutional Rights & Issues
Pat McCann, a famous 26-year-old super model, was traveling to New York for a lingerie catalogue photo shoot. While standing in line at airport security, Pat overheard a TSA employee tell another passenger that their new full-body scanner was one of 400 recently deployed around the country. Affectionately dubbed a “virtual strip search,” the new…
Music Copyright Infringement
By Jamie Ribman on
Rapper Chocolate Ice’s new release Golfin’ Wit My Glock is a smash hit with nearly 400,000 digital downloads in its first week. The success of the song has not escaped the notice of recording artist Bill Board, who believes that Ice has ripped off five notes from his 1980’s country hit single, “Now That We’re…
Explanation of bills that did, and did not, get passed
The 81st Texas Legislature that began in January ended with an exhausting five-day filibuster of the voter identification bill, a legislative logjam of other major legislation left for debate until late in the session, a frantic last ditch attempt to save much of that legislation, and a final-day meltdown in the Senate. The 2009 session…
Are School Lockers Subject to Search?
By Jamie Ribman on
Posted in Constitutional Rights & Issues, Family Issues
On Monday morning, at Uptown High School, Buffy reported to the school Principal that her Chanel sunglasses and iPod nano were missing from her locker. After lunch, Suzy Snitch told Uptown’s Principal that she saw Kandi Klepto trying to sell a pair of sunglasses to another student during lunch. The Principal decided to search Kandi’s…
Recording a Telephone Conversation in Texas
By Jamie Ribman on
Posted in Constitutional Rights & Issues, Employment & Labor
Michael is the owner of Phelps Sports & Outdoors, which carries a full range of sporting goods and apparel. Michael is anticipating a surge in interest in swimming after the widely televised and viewed Democracy Games, and wants to have the latest and most sought after swimming merchandise available. The Speezo LZB Speedster swimsuit is…