https://www.wsj.com/us-news/small-claims-case-goes-to-supreme-court-b24ac380?mod=wknd_pos1
The Department of Defense employee is waiting to find out whether a missed email spells an end to his 11-year quest to get $3,000 of pay (and interest) he says was wrongly withheld during 2013 budget cuts that briefly forced him out of work.
His case would feel right at home in small-claims court. But in March, the nine justices of the highest court in the land heard oral arguments about whether the government should let him continue his fight for six days of back pay.
”'כקטן כגדול תשמעון' (דברים, א', י"ז) אמר ריש לקיש: מכאן, שיהא חביב עליך דין של פרוטה כדין של מאה מנה” (תלמוד בבלי, מסכת סנהדרין, דף ח', עמוד א').
ReplyDeleteThe plaintiff is frum and did almost all of the litigation himself (a non lawyer) fascinating story
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