• The Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 12:18 PM

A National Labor Relations Board judge has dropped charges against five scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and told the organization to rescind disciplinary actions against these employees who shared emails at work about a Supreme Court decision on background security checks for JPL employees. Dennis Byrnes, Scott Maxwell, Larry D'Addario, Robert Nelson and William Bruce Banerdt were accused of sending unsolicited emails. The judge compared their email forwarding to employees that use email to sell Girl Scout cookies to each other. 

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