Publications

Briefly summarizes three United States Supreme Court decisions from 1997 of interest to public employers.

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of age against individuals forty years old and above in all aspects of employment, applying to both government and private employers. Although the Act generally bars mandatory retirement, this bulletin explains how Congress modified the Act to permit such provisions for public safety personnel.

This bulletin discusses legislation affecting criminal law and procedure passed by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1996.

Discusses three decisions of the courts of appeals regarding local governments' attempts to control the disposal of solid waste by using measures crafted to avoid the discriminatory aspects of flow control found invalid by the U.S. Supreme Court in C&A Carbone, Inc. v. Town of Clarkstown.