Writers' Strike and Other Thoughts

There's something about Hollywood that makes people pay attention in a way they won't when it concerns another industry. Here is a summary of the issues, and there are plenty of blogs chronicling the dispute (writers not working still gotta scratch that itch. See Undercover Black Man and United Hollywood, which has actual information for picketing writers. I expect Calitics will keep its eye on the strike, as will the mainstream media.

And here's a sexual harassment case I will not likely be sharing with any of my clients. In Coolidge v. Indianapolis, the Seventh Circuit found that the appellant was not sexually harassed by her former supervisor when she found necrophiliac pornography that he may have left behind. The Court found, among other things, that as a Crime Lab employee, exposure to such material did not have the same "shocking overtones" it might have in another setting. It recalls "the Seinfeld case", Lyle v. Warner Bros., where the Cal Supremes defined when it was okay to talk dirty at work. Now that I think about it, those alleged harassers are probably out on the picket line today.

UPDATE: 11/5, 3:20p - A writer was hit by a car on the picket line, per ABC News.