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Redefining obesity as a disease - Overlawyered — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:45:03 +0000

[…] from the important employment law implications linked last week in this space, the American Medical Association’s decision to reclassify obesity as a disease […]

By: wfjag

wfjag — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 11:44:21 +0000

Let’s see if I understand the EEOC:
If I seek to exercise my constitutionally protected rights and go to a firearms dealer to purchase a firearm, then s/he will do a criminal background check on me;
however, if I apply for employment with the same dealer, although I have no constitutionally protected right to employment, that same dealer is prohibited from doing a criminal background check, although such a job would provide access to firearms and ammo?
Although the US District Courts, not the EEOC, have habeas corpus jurisdiction, the EEOC is granting itself power to limit the effects of convictions based upon evidence of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. When did Congress empower the EEOC to perform h.c. type reviews of convictions?

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