Partners in a Decatur law firm say they have had hundreds of thousands of dollars in checks stolen from the mail over the past year.

Channel 2 consumer investigator Justin Gray has been reporting on stolen mail and check fraud problems since last year.

Attorney Ken Carpenter reached out to Gray after repeatedly having checks stolen, washed, and forged after being placed in the US mail.

“People always use it as an excuse for not paying, that’s in the mail. Well, literally these days it can be in the mail and it doesn’t get through,” Carpenter told Gray.

Carpenter’s law

On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) once again issued new precedent when holding that the mere proffer of a draft severance agreement containing broad confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions violated the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or “Act”). The severance agreement provisions before the Board contained extremely broad restrictions and arose in the context of underlying unfair labor practices (“ULPs”) that included circumventing a certified bargaining representative. It remains to be seen, therefore, whether the Board will seek to invalidate more narrowly-tailored confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions.

At issue in Mclaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No.

The District of Maryland recently awarded a software developer a mere $1.00 in nominal damages for contract and trade secret claims against a former employee, citing the immateriality of the defendant’s breach and plaintiff’s failure to prove a fair licensing price for its misappropriation damages.

in AirFacts, Inc. v. de AmezagaAirFacts, a developer of accounting software for airlines, filed suit against Diego de Amezaga, its former director of product development, alleging that de Amezaga’s subsequent employment violated his employment agreement with AirFacts and that de Amezaga had misappropriated various trade secrets.

As part of his employment with AirFacts, de