I intended to begin the week with a post about a company's legal obligation to predict — yes, predict — an employee's mental fitness for duty. Then, I started on a brief tangent on Ellen Pao, the former partner of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, who just lost a highly-publicized gender discrimination claim against said former employer.

And a few hundred words later, that brief tangent became its own blog post — this one. (If you want a wild lawsuit brought by an airline captain who claimed that his former employer was negligent by failing to predict that he'd have a manic in-flight episode, come back later).

Today's news is Ellen Pao, but, will it also be tomorrow's news?

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