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...question of week seems to be this: Was Marta Mercato actually working for Linda Chavez? Or was Chavez simply being friendly? If Mercato was working for Chavez, were any laws broken...
...What was the legal basis behind Chavez's departure? On the lookout for answers, TIME.com conferred with Mark Miller, political science professor at University of Delaware; Cynthia Estlund, professor of law at Columbia University; and David Swider, a partner at Bose McKinney & Evans, an Indianapolis law firm specializing in labor and employment...
...Does Chavez's withdrawal indicate guilt...
...David Swider: We'll have to speculate on that one. But we do know that if Chavez had continued in her quest for confirmation, she would have run into laws against harboring illegal aliens [see below] - and she would have had a much tougher time dodging those questions than those about the employer-employee relationship and concurrent...
...Mark Miller: Current labor law says if you compensate someone more than $1,000, there is an employment relationship, and you are required to fill out the requisite tax forms. It's unclear exactly how much Chavez gave Mercato - so we don't know if the limit was crossed...