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Property Manager Settles Fair Housing Lawsuit
The owner and manager of several properties in the Greater Hartford area have agreed to pay $150,000 to a fair housing advocate group as part of settlement. The group, Connecticut Fair Housing Center, sued Paul Rosow, the owner of the properties, and...Tags: Rentals, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Unemployment Benefits, Apartments
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Wet Seal to pay $7.5 million to settle race discrimination suit
Wet Seal will pay $7.5 million to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit that accused the teen retailer of firing black employees to present a blond-and-blue-eyed front in its stores, according to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The...
Tags: The Wet Seal Incorporated, Employment Opportunities, Racism, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Crime, Law and Justice
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Voice of the People, May. 09
Collins' coverage The May 1 editorial cartoon by Scott Stantis clearly distorted reality. The cartoon, showing the media telling Tim Tebow to keep his Christian beliefs to himself while encouraging Jason Collins to talk more about his being gay, is...Tags: Tim Tebow, Christianity, Social Issues, Separation of Church and State, National Football League
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Abercrombie & Fitch chief's 'cool kids' comments draw outrage
Abercrombie & Fitch, the clothing retailer, has caught flak in recent days for controversial comments made in 2006 by its chief executive. The image-conscious company does not make or sell women’s clothing in any size above large, which is an...
Tags: Fashion Trends, Bloomberg L.P., Abercrombie & Fitch Company, Social Issues, The Huffington Post
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Iowa jury returns record $240-million judgment in ADA abuse case
A jury has awarded $240 million to 32 mentally disabled former workers at a turkey processing plant in Iowa, in what officials on Wednesday said was the largest such judgment in a federal abuse and discrimination case. After a week-long trial, the...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Des Moines Register, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Labor Legislation
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Well-meaning USDA program implodes on taxpayers
In 1999, President Bill Clinton set out to right a wrong: the government's widespread discrimination against black farmers, particularly in the South. The victims had applied for farming loans but, owing to bias on the part of federal loan officers, had...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Tom Vilsack, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Trials
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Mossburg misrepresents research on housing vouchers
In her April 23 column, “Forcing landlords to accept vouchers won't help the poor,” Marta H. Mossburg quoted me as saying that laws prohibiting landlords to accept Section 8 vouchers “exacerbate” the problem of finding housing...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Politics, Chicago Housing Authority, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues
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Tinley Park in dispute over Hispanic cop's discrimination claim
The Illinois Department of Human Rights has found "substantial evidence" that the Tinley Park Police Department discriminated against a Hispanic patrol officer when it passed him over for a specialty position. In a discrimination complaint filed with...
Tags: Lawyers, Freedom of Information Act, Politics, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Nation and Melone: Will Supreme Court end affirmative action for college admissions?
Americans embrace the ideal of equality. However, we have had a difficult time with the concept in practice. The towering rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" was shamefully belied by the enshrinement of slavery...
Tags: John G. Roberts, Jr., Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Racism, Crime, Law and Justice
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Josh Levin: Collins' declaration brings sports world into real world
When Jason Collins came out last week, a chorus of politicians, journalists and sports fans praised the NBA player for his courage and celebrated him for making history. It's been especially heartening to see that tolerance has outstripped bigotry even in...Tags: Mike Wallace (football), Metta World Peace, Rush Limbaugh, Los Angeles Lakers, Atlanta Falcons
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CORRECTED-Ex-Ogletree VP sends scathing email to clients, colleagues
Reuters(Corrects paragraph 7 to remove reference to the shareholder's being in Ogletree's Kansas City office.) By Casey Sullivan (Reuters) - Partners who defect from one law firm to another usually keep any hard feelings about their former firm to themselves....Tags: Lawyers, Employment Opportunities, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Career and Workplace
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Openly gay athlete Jason Collins is what 'we've all been waiting for'
National political leaders, gay rights groups and entertainment icons on Monday spoke in support of Jason Collins, the first active professional athlete to come out as gay. The 34-year-old Los Angeles native, who helped lead Harvard-Westlake School to...
Tags: Minnesota Vikings, Human Rights Campaign, Sports Illustrated, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Gay Rights
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