News tagged with 'Discrimination'

With 3,000 new seats for freshman law students created in the last 15 years, law school enrollments are increasingly Caucasian, as Black and Chicano applicants are declined, even as L.S.A.T. scores improve.

As the economy worsens, more employees are filing wrongful termination lawsuits, some labor lawyers note.  And employers are turning to insurance to shield themselves from the losses.

Lori Drew was convicted by a Los Angeles jury of three misdemeanor counts for the internet hoax that led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide. She could have spent 20 years in prison.  The precedent setting case has established law in the area of cyberbullying.

An Upper East Side building is accused of discriminating against an 11-year old boy, Aaron Schein, by preventing him from having a dog. His doctors deem a service dog medically necessary and believe it will help to relieve his anxiety associated with Asperger's syndrome.

Who earns the most?  This organizational psychology study finds that men with traditional views about being the breadwinner make more than women or men with egalitarian views, regardless of education, the job or hours. They may be more aggressive about negotiating a salary or the employers may have a bias. The findings surprised researchers who thought this was a male-female issue.

After being dismissed in 2006, lawsuits against military contractors Halliburton and Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), a former subsidiary, may go to trial in 2009. The lawsuits are over an ambush that left six civilian truck drivers in Iraq dead.

The old saying is you don’t want to know how laws and sausage are made.  Never was that more true than in Mississippi.   Mississippi has the highest obesity rate

The California Supreme Court has ruled that employers do not have to follow the state Compassionate Use Act and can legally fire employees who use medical marijuana to fight chronic pain.

In a ruling that favors employers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled on Wednesday that employers can reduce or eliminate health benefits for workers over the age of 65 or when they become eligible for Medicare.

KBR says much of Jamie Leigh Jones story is inaccurate. The president of KBR is speaking to employees in a memo reported by ABC. The global construction company says it acted properly and admits that the rape kit adminstered to Jones and handed over to security personnel is missing. 

She was just 19 years old when she went to work for Halliburton in Iraq.  Jamie Leigh Jones rape case against the contractor has languished until now.  Now its front and center in Washington and on ABC News.

A New York jury recently awarded $1.5 million to a Schenectady woman who was sexually abused by a city bus driver six years ago. The lawsuit, which was filed against the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA), alleged the 61-year-old bus driver drove the woman to a remote area about 10 miles north of Albany

A Pennsylvania jury awarded $215,592 recently to a white public schools police officer who alleged he was demoted for supporting racial discrimination charges made by several African-American officers. The Pittsburgh school board and Safety Chief Robert Fadzen demoted Ron Mancini from commander to patrol officer in 19

Claiming they were the victims of racial slurs and biased supervisors, five New York field agents filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.). The minority employees, Wilfred Baptiste, Kendall Hobson, Nathan Tucker, Paul Sutherland and Carlos Tucker, filed the suit in the Federa

Four men who claim they were discriminated against when they were asked to leave an American Airlines jet and strip-searched in front of other passengers have filed a civil-rights lawsuit against the airline. Three female American Airlines employees searched Waesam Hamdan, Ehab Abdelaziz, Eyhab Matari and Osama Zeidan