James Willem

@willempa.bsky.social

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Employment and labor lawyer posting about the law and Pennsylvania courts. Formerly legal aid. KNVB fan. Cider fan. Allentown, by way of Boston, DC, Gujarat, New Haven, and Chicago, but Berkshires at heart.

Front of bottle of Firefly #4 cider from New York Cider Company
Child looking at jellyfish at Baltimore Aquarium
Front of bottle of Porter's Reserve cider from Finger Lakes Cider House
Photo of fans watching world cup match on a screen at the Bethlehem Steel Stacks
I voted sticker
Picture of Iron Pigs game in Allentown
Pie store sign in Easton, PA
Picture of No King protesters in Bethlehem Pennsylvania
Summary of issues and decision by Commonwealth Court in Verizon's case against the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry
Picture of lehigh valley phantoms hockey game
Lineup of A-Treat Sodas from the Lehigh Valley
Excerpt from Inquirer story about Ploughman cider opening a taproom in Fishtown, Philadelphia
Picture of plaque honoring those killed in the Lattimer massacre
Fefe standing on the dugout at an Iron Pigs game
Photo of tennis match in Landisville, Pennsylvania
Screenshot of post about congressional race news in Pennsylvania's seventh district
Cover of issue 1 of Vittles Magazine
Standard for setting aside prenuptial agreement
Paragraph from decision stating that evidence of Marijuana odor must be particularized to individual
Protesters in downtown Allentown on April 5, 2025
Cover of Rise Gonna Rise: A Portrait of Southern Textile Workers by Mimi Conway.
Cover of The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942 by Mitch Troutman.
Cover of Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania by Cody McDevitt.
Cover of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu.
Cover of Sewing Freedom: Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism by Jared Davidson.
Cover of Rusted Dreams: Hard Times in a Steel Community by David Bensman and Roberta Lynch.
Cover of The Homestead Strike of 1892 by Arthur G. Burgoyne.
Cover of Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients.
Cover of Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living.
Book cover of The Death and Life of American Labor by Stanley Aronowitz.
Book cover of The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy by Joan Quigley.
Stating that this decision aligns with the 6th Circuit but departs, perhaps, from the 10th Circuit
Court discussion of how the Mount Clemens Pottery case does not apply here
Footnote from the court explaining that, even if not defamation, both parties have acted unethically and should do better next time.
Third Circuit section explaining why JUA's funds are public, even if they aren't funded from public coffers
Third Circuit pulls four questions out of the Supreme Court's Dartmouth case: 1) whether company's organic act granted it political power; 2) whether company was created to be employed in the administration of government; 3) whether company's funds are drawn from public property and 4) whether anyone but Commonwealth has an interest in company
Two hands holding a part of a sesame seed bagel. The caption reads "This is, like, a cataclysmic event in the bagel world.' Said Sam Silverman, a bagel maven."
Dutch-language feed from Feyenoord losing it's mind as the team comes back from a three-goal deficit against Manchester City