Labor and Employment Arbitrator: Will Judge Kavanaugh Be Confirmed and What Type of Justice Will He Be?

Monday, August 20, 2018

Will Judge Kavanaugh Be Confirmed and What Type of Justice Will He Be?

Next month Judge Kavanaugh confirmation hearings will start and you can expect political bickering and argument from both sides of the aisle. This is President Trump's second appointment and because Judge Kavanaugh will, if confirmed, be replacing a moderate, this appointment will likely swing the court far to the right.

But, just who is Judge Kavanaugh? We know he worked in the Bush Administration and on the Kenneth Star Report and he sits on the D.C. Circuit. Senator Schumer has been widely quoted as stating that the best predictor of how he will rule as a Supreme Court Justice is by examining how he ruled while sitting on the D.C. Circuit. I disagree. I was quoted in theAugust 19, 2018, Washington Times as stating:

“He is a prolific writer and not afraid to dissent from the majority,” said Mitchell Rubinstein, a New York based lawyer...Mr. Rubinstein said those rulings suggest the judge is a strong supporter of national security but has been bound by precedent, so dissecting his rulings won’t necessarily predict opinions if he is confirmed to the high court.

It is, therefore, much more important to examine Judge Kavanaugh's non-judicial writings. Thus, in my view, his legal scholarship and his speeches are much more important than what he said in a judicial opinion, whether it be a majority or dissenting opinion-though those opinions do have some value. I just do not believe that they are as important as Senator Schumer believes that they are.

As for whether he will be confirmed, of course, he will. It is all about the numbers.

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Mitchell H. Rubinstein's Accomplishments

Education

J.D. Hofstra University School of Law

B.S. Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Presently

-Hearing Officer, N.Y.C. Office of Administrative Trials & Hearings (“OATH”)

-Hearing Officer, N.Y.S. Education Dep’t., Office of Adult Career & Continuing Educational Services-Vocational Rehabilitation (“ACCES-VR”)

-Public Arbitrator-FINRA

-Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School

Formerly

-Employment Attorney, Sapir, Schragin, LLP (represented individuals)

-Senior Counsel, New York State United Teachers (“NYSUT”) (represented unions and union members)

-Adjunct Professor of Law, St. John’s Law School

-Labor Attorney, Trans World Airlines (“TWA”) (represented employer)

-Labor Associate, Breed, Abbott & Morgan (represented employers)

-Labor Associate, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson (represented employers)

Published Scholarship

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES

1. Employees, Employers and Quasi-Employers; An Analysis Of Employees & Employers Who Operate In The Borderland Of An Employer-Employee Relationship, 14 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 605 (2012).

2. Duty Of Fair Representation Jurisprudential Reform: The Need To Adjudicate Disputes In Internal Union Review Tribunals And The Forgotten Remedy Of Re-Arbitration, 42 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 517 (2009) (lead article).

3. Obama’s Big Deal; The 2009 Federal Stimulus; Labor And Employment Law At The Cross Roads, 33 Rutgers L. Rec. 1 (2009) (lead article).

4. A Lawyer’s Worst Nightmare: The Story Of A Lawyer And His Nurse Clients Who Were Both Criminally Charged Because The Nurses Resigned En Mass, 103 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 317 (2009).

5. Privacy Legal Issues In The Public Sector, 58th Ann. N.Y.U. Conf. on Lab., ch. 18, pp. 629-669 (Wolters Kluwer, Jonathan Remy Nash & Samuel Estreicher eds. 2010)(by invitation).

6. Sprint/United Co. v. Mendelsohn: The Supreme Court Appears To Have Punted On The Admissibility of “Me Too’ Evidence Of Discrimination. But Did It? 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 264 (2008)

6A. Reply To Professors David L. Gregory and Paul M. Secunda With Respect To The Significance Of Sprint/United Management Company v. Mendelsohn, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 387 (2008).

7. Parents As Quasi-Therapists Under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, 76 U. Cin. L. Rev. 899 (2008).

8. Is a Labor Relations Evidentiary Privilege Developing?,29 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 221 (2008).

9. Assignment of Labor Arbitration, 81 St. John’s L. Rev. 41 (2007).

10. Our Nation’s Forgotten Workers: The Unprotected Volunteers, 9 U. Pa. J. Lab. & Emp. L. 147 (2006).

11. Union Immunity From Suit In New York, 2 N.Y.U. J. L. & Bus 641 (Summer 2006) (lead article).

12. Altering Judicial Review Of Labor Arbitration Awards, 2006 Mich. St. L. Rev. 235 (Summer) (lead article).

13. Advisory Arbitration Under New York Law: Does It Have A Place In Employment Law? 79 St. John’s L. Rev. 419 (Spring 2005).

14. A New York Court Recognizes A Labor Union Evidentiary Privilege, 9 The Labor Lawyer 595 (Fall 1993).

15. The Use of Predischarge Misconduct Discovered After An Employee’s Termination As A Defense In Employment Litigation, 24 Suffolk Univ. L. Rev. 1 (1990) (lead article).

16. The Affirmative Action Controversy, 3 Hofstra Lab. L. J. 111 (1985).

SHORTER PUBLICATIONS

1. A Peek at New York Defamation Law, 82 N.Y.S. Bar. J. 58 (Nov./Dec. 2010).

2. Attorney Labor Unions, 79 N.Y.S. Bar Journal 23 (Jan. 2007).

3. Public Sector Labor and Employment Law (2d Ed. 1998) (By Lefkowitz, Osterman & Townley).

4. Contributing Editor, Discipline And Discharge In Arbitration (BNA 1998)

5. Reciprocal Discovery In Teacher Discipline Proceeding Under Section 3020-a Of The Education Law, Vol. 23, No. 2, p. 23, Labor & Employment Newsletter (NYS Bar Ass’n. June 1998).

6. Labor Arbitration Under New York Law, 64 N.Y.S. Bar Journal 35 (Sept/Oct. 1992).

7. Refusal to Hire Overqualified Applicants May Age Discrimination, NYLJ, May 17, 1991 at 1

8. Don’t Burden The Employers, National Law Journal, Oct. 30, 1989, at 13, col. 1.

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Will Judge Kavanaugh Be Confirmed and What Type of Justice Will He Be?

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