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How My Joke on Twitter Became a Federal Case
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I’m under federal investigation for making a joke on Twitter. In June 2019, employees at the left-liberal Vox Media Inc. walked off the job demanding a new collective bargaining agreement. As the publisher of a conservative website, the Federalist, I found the clash ironic. I tweeted: “FYI @fdrlst first one of you tries to unionize I…
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Mark Chenoweth on The Andrea Kaye Show: Discussing the Joel Fleming v. FDRLST Media, LLC case.
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NCLA Executive Director and General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth, comments on the recent developments in the Joel Fleming v. FDRLST Media, LLC case. https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Andrea-Kaye-Show.-April-28.mp3 TweetShareShare0 Shares
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Send the NLRB Back to the Salt Mine
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Can a politically unaccountable government agency sanction you for a joke on Twitter that annoyed a total stranger? If you’re Ben Domenech of The Federalist and the agency is the National Labor Relations Board, the answer, for now, is yes. The case is a perfect storm of what is wrong with the administrative state in general and the…
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Send the NLRB Back to the Salt Mine
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Can a politically unaccountable government agency sanction you for a joke on Twitter that annoyed a total stranger? If you’re Ben Domenech of The Federalist and the agency is the National Labor Relations Board, the answer, for now, is yes. The case is a perfect storm of what is wrong with the administrative state in general and the…
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NLRB ALJ finds fault with ominous tweet on Federalist publisher’s Twitter feed
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“First one of you tries to unionize I swear I’ll send you back to the salt mine” An NLRB administrative law judge has ruled that the publisher of The Federalist website violated the NLRA when he posted a tweet on his personal Twitter account threatening to send employees “to the salt mine” if they try…
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The End of Deference: An Update from Arkansas
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I recently posted about the states that had rejected deference in the past several years and noted that several more states were likely to reconsider deference in 2020. One state that I did not expect to see make the change was Arkansas whose state Supreme Court had as recently as 2014 had employed a highly deferential standard…
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