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p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"strongCases and items concerning equal employment opportunity/strongstrongspan style="color:red;"?xml:namespace prefix = o /o:p/o:p/span/strong/pp class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="color:red;"Source: EEO/iNews ? /span/strongbiuspan style="color:red;"iNews Related to Equal Employment Opportunity, /span/u/istrongspan style="color:red;"© 2008 John D. Sargent, Esq., All Rights Reserved. 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Pending/i iand Decided/i a href="http://www.lawmemo.com/supreme/"here/ao:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"bspan style="font-family:';color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bPetition for Cert Granted:/bispan style="color:black;" o:p/o:p/span/i/pp class="MsoNormal"ispan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/i /pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"emuspan style="color:black;"Crawford v. Metro Gov't of Nashville amp; Davidson County/span/u/emspan style="color:black;", iNo. 06-1595/i o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"span style="color:black;"Title VII/retaliation o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;"October 8, 2008 Argument Transcript a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/06-1595.pdf"here/a/spanemspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/em/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanemspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" SCOTUSWIKI a href="http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Crawford_v._Metropolitan_Government_of_Nashville"here/a/span/emispan style="color:black;" /span/ibspan style="font-family:';color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanemspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" /span/ememspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" LIIBULLETIN a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/06-1595.html"here/a/spanbuspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/u/b/em/pp class="MsoNormal"emuspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/u/em/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"emuspan style="color:black;"14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett,/span/uspan style="color:black;" No. 07-581o:p/o:p/span/em/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"emspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" Enforceability of collectively bargained arbitration clauseo:p/o:p/span/em/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanemspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" /span/ememspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" December 1, 2008 Argument Transcript a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/07-581.pdf"here/ao:p/o:p/span/em/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanemspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" /span/ememspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" SCOTUSWIKI a href="http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Penn_Plaza_LLC_v._Pyett#Opinion_Analysis"here/ao:p/o:p/span/em/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanemspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" /span/ememspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" LIIBULLETIN a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/07-581.html"here/ao:p/o:p/span/em/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in"emspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" o:p/o:p/span/em/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"emuspan style="color:black;"ATamp;T v. Hulteen/span/u/ememspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" , /span/ememspan style="color:black;"No. 07-543o:p/o:p/span/em/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"emspan style="FONT-STYLE: normal;color:black;" Title VII/Denial of pre-?79 pregnancy leave service credits in computing pension o:p/o:p/span/em/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanspan style="color:black;"December 10, 2008 Argument Transcript a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/07-543.pdf"here/ao:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="font-family:';color:black;"/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanspan style="color:black;"SCOTUSWIKI a href="http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=AT%26T_Corp._v._Hulteen"here/a /spanbspan style="font-family:';color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;"LIIBULLETIN a href="http://topics.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/07-543"here/a/spanbspan style="font-family:';color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanbispan style="color:black;"Noted here/span/i/bspan style="color:black;": a href="http://www.workforce.com/section/00/article/26/02/74.php"Workforce Management/a; a href="http://www.aarp.org/research/legal-advocacy/aarp_asks_supreme_court_to_uphold_fairness_for_ret.html"AARP/a/spanbspan style="font-family:';color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="font-family:';color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"iuspan style="color:black;"Gross v. FBL Fin. Servs/span/u/iispan style="color:black;", No. /span/ii08-441o:p/o:p/i/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"span style="color:black;"ADEA/Must a plaintiff present direct evidence of discrimination in order to obtain a mixed-motive instruction in a non-Title VII discrimination case?o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanspan style="color:black;"SCOTUS docket a href="http://origin.www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/08-441.htm"here/a/spanbspan style="font-family:';color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="font-family:';color:black;"/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanbispan style="color:black;"Noted here/span/i/bspan style="color:black;": a href="http://www.lawmemo.com/blog/2008/12/direct_evidence_1.html"Ross Runkel/a; a href="http://www.workplacehorizons.com/home/2008/12/11/supreme-court-grants-cert-to-clarify-mixed-motive-standard.html"Workplace Horizons/a; a href="http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=71158amp;email_access=on"Mayer Brown/a/spanbspan style="font-family:';color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in"span style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"Selected Pending Petitions for Certiorari:/span/bbspan style="color:black;" o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="font-family:';color:black;"/span/bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"iuspan style="color:black;"Ricci v. Destefano/span/uspan style="color:black;",/span/ispan style="color:black;" iNo./i i07-1428o:p/o:p/i/span/pp class="MsoBodyTextIndent3"Title VII/White/Hispanic firefighters challenge New Haven CT?s rejection of promotion exam results because of disparate impact on Blacks span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanspan style="color:black;"SCOTUS docket a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/07-1428.htm"here/ao:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanbiNoted here/i/b: a href="http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2008/12/16/news/a3-nesupremes.txt"New Haven Register/a; a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2008/12/justices-contin.html"Workplace Prof Blog/a; a href="http://www.firefightingnews.com/article-US.cfm?articleID=58935"Fire Fighting News/aspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"iuspan style="color:black;"Bowie v. Personnel Bd. of Jefferson County, Ala./span/u/ispan style="color:black;", iNo. 08-488*/io:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"span style="color:black;"Title VII/ (1) /spanspan style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:black;"Can a court-appointed receiver be sued as an employer under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for retaliatory employment decisions made during his receivership? (2) When a period of receivership ends during the pendency of a Title VII action, should the action continue with the original employer substituted for the receiver?o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanSCOTUS docket a href="http://origin.www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/08-488.htm"span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman;"here/span/aspan style="color:black;" o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanbi*Petition Denied/i/b 12-15-08span style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal"/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"iuMartin v. Howard University/u/i, No. ispan style="font-family:';"08-204/span/i /pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"TVII/Workplace stalking/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"Petition for Rehearing to be considered 1-9-09 /pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanSCOTUS docket a href="http://origin.www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/08-204.htm"here/a/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="font-family:';"/spanbiNoted here/i/b: a href="http://alexisamoore.blogspot.com/2008/12/dawn-v-martins-pursuit-of-justice-for.html"Alexis A. Moore/abio:p/o:p/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"bspan style="font-family:';color:black;"/spanispan style="font-family:';color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pdiv style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1pt; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: solid"/divh3 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in"span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-size:100%;" o:p/o:p/span /h3h3 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in"span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"/spanspan style="font-size:100%;"Federal Appellate Court Decisions/span/h3p class="MsoNormal"o:p/o:p /pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanbspan style="font-family:';color:black;"Paul Mollica?s iDaily Developments in EEO Law/i a href="http://www.mmmglawblog.com/"here/a/span/bbspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"1st Circuit/span/u/bbspan style="color:black;" o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/08-1773P-01A.pdf"Casamento v. MBTA, No. 08-1773 (1st Cir. December 16, 2008)/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"Affirming, with a thump, dismissal of fem bus driver?s span style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"gender/failure-to-promote/span claim: iNo court could send such a case to trial because there was nothing to be triedbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/i/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/u/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"5th Circuit/span/u/bbspan style="color:black;" o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unpub/07/07-20906.0.wpd.pdf"Bright v. GB Bioscience Inc, No. 07-20906 (5th Cir. December 15, 2008)(Unpub)/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"Affirming span style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"race (B)/failure-to-hire §1981/span claim buspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/u/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/u/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"6th Circuit /span/u/bspan style="color:black;"[Thanks to a href="http://www.sixthcircuitcases.com/"Sixth Circuit Cases/a] o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/08a0754n-06.pdf"Trout v. Aerospace Testing Alliance, No. 08-5113 (6th Cir. Dec. 10, 2008)(Unpub)/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"Affirming dismissal of span style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"disability (vision)/failure-to-accommodate/span claimbo:p/o:p/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/08a0744n-06.pdf"Lahar v. Oakland County, No. 07-2258 (6th Cir. Dec. 4, 2009)(Unpub)/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"Affirming dismissal of span style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"age/retaliation/span claims for lack of causation bo:p/o:p/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/08a0736n-06.pdf"Russell v. State of Ohio, No.7-3808 (6th Cir. December 3, 2008)(Unpub)/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"Affirming dismissal of pro-se Admin Asst?s ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"race, HWE and retal/span/i claims regarding reclassification/promotionbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/08a0727n-06.pdf"Cecil v. Louisville Water Co., No. 07-6232 (6th Cir. Nov. 24, 2008)(Unpub)/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"Rejecting employee?s ?pointillist painting? theory, affirms dismissal of fem?s span style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"gender/HWE/retal/span claims [related to iVaughn/i decision, next]bo:p/o:p/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/08a0728n-06.pdf"Vaughn v. Louisville Water Co., No. 07-6234 (6th Cir. Nov. 24, 2008)(Unpub)/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"Affirming dismissal of fem?s span style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"gender/HWE/retal/span claims [related to iCecil/i decision, previous]buspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/u/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/u/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"7th Circuit/span/u/bbspan style="color:black;" o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/foleylardner.pdf"Hasan v. Foley amp; Lardner, LLP, No.07-3025 (7th Cir. December 15, 2008)/aspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"Muslim associate of South Asian Indian origin flips dismissal of his suit alleging span style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"9/11-based religion, national origin, color, race/discharge, retaliation/span claimsspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="font-family:Wingdings;color:red;"/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanbiNoted here/i/b: span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/12/15/7th-circuit-lets-ex-foley-associate-go-forward-with-discrimination-suit/?mod=djemWLBamp;reflink=djemWLBamp;reflink=djemWLB"span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"WSJ/span/a; a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202426802708amp;rss=newswire"span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"Law.com/span/a; a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2008/12/ex-foley-lardne.html"span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"Workplace Prof Blog/span/a; a href="http://ohioemploymentlaw.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-avoid-discrimination-lawsuit-in.html"Ohio Employer?s Law Blog/a/spanbuspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/u/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/u/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"9thCircuit/span/u/bbspan style="color:black;" o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanspan style="color:black;"a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/coa/memdispo.nsf/pdfview/121008/$File/07-35480.PDF"May v. Honeywell Int?l Inc., No. 07-35480 (9th Cir. Dec. 10, 2008)(Unpub)/a/ concurrence/dissent a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/coa/memdispo.nsf/pdfview/121008/$File/07-35480cd.PDF"here/a/spanspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"span style="color:black;"Reversing dismissal of span style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"disability/failure-to-accommodate/span claim/spanspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/u/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"11th Circuit/span/u/bbspan style="color:black;" o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanspan style="color:black;"a href="http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/unpub/ops/200715434.pdf"Poulson v. Publix Super Market, No. 07-15434 (11th Cir. Dec. 15, 2008)(Unpub)/a/spanbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"span style="color:black;"Reversing dismissal of pro se complaint span style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"age and disability/termination suit/span/spanbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/u/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buspan style="color:black;"DC Circuit/span/u/bbspan style="color:black;" o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanspan style="color:black;"a href="http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/200812/07-5391-1153734.pdf"Oscarson v. Office of the Senate Sergeant at Arms, No. 07-5391 (D.C. Cir. Dec. 12, 2008)/a/spanbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"span style="color:black;"Dismissing employer?s appeal from denial of Motion to Dismiss span style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"disability/failure-to-accommodate /spansuit for lack of appellate jurisdiction/spanbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bispan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buCommentary on previously reported Federal Appellate Court decisionso:p/o:p/u/b/pp class="MsoNormal"buo:p/o:p/u/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanb3suprd/sup Cir.span style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanstrongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"/span/strongstrongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"a href="http://www.ogletreedeakins.com/publications/index.cfm?Fuseaction=PubDetailamp;publicationid=609"Court Rejects Discriminatory Failure to Hire Claim Based Solely on Applicant?s Own Allegations/a/span/strongstrongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"o:p/o:p/span/strong/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in"emspan style="font-family:';"Gaston v. New Jersey/span/emstrongspan style="font-family:';"o:p/o:p/span/strong/pp class="MsoNormal"strongo:p/o:p/strong/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanstrongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"/span/strongstrongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"a href="http://www.ogletreedeakins.com/publications/index.cfm?Fuseaction=PubDetailamp;publicationid=610"Court Rejects Reverse Discrimination Claims Based on Speculative Evidence/a/spano:p/o:p/strong/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in"emspan style="font-family:';"Hunter v. Rowan University/span/embspan style="font-family:';"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanb5supth/sup Cir.span style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in" a href="http://texaslawyer.typepad.com/work_matters/2008/12/play-to-win-dont-just-play-not-to-lose.html"Play to win, don't just play not to lose/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"ispan style="font-family:';"Landavazo v. The Toro Coo:p/o:p/span/i/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanb6supth/sup Cir.span style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="font-family:';"/spana href="http://www.jacksonlewis.com/legalupdates/article.cfm?aid=1584"Sixth Circuit Holds Disabled Retirees Lack Standing to Bring Claims Under Disabilities Act/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"emspan style="font-family:';"Leroy McKnight, et al. v. General Motors Corp/span/emembspan style="font-family:';color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/em/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"bspan style="font-family:';color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/2008/12/6th-affirms-pro.html"6th Affirms Pro Se $120,000 Employment Discrimination Verdict/a/spanbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoHeading9"strongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"Madden v. Chattanooga City Wide Svc. Dept/span/strongbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:red;" /spanb8supth/sup Cir.span style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan class="apple-style-span"/spana href="http://texaslawyer.typepad.com/work_matters/2008/12/fix-your-mistakes.html"Fix your mistakes/aspan class="apple-style-span"span style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/span/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"span class="apple-style-span"ispan style="font-family:';color:black;"Jackson v. UPS, Inc/span/i/spanbispan style="font-family:';color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:red;" /spanb11supth/sup Cir.span style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spana href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/2008/12/witness-affidav.html"Witness Affidavit Struck in Employment discrimination case/ao:p/o:p/pp class="MsoHeading9"Lawver v. Hillcrest Hospicespan style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal"bispan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pdiv style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1pt; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: solid"p class="MsoNormal" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"bspan style="font-family:';color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/p/divh4 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"?xml:namespace prefix = v /v:shape id="_x0000_i1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="*" bullet="t" o:p/o:p/v:shape/span/h4h4 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"o:p/o:p/pp class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"buspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/u/b/pbspan style="color:black;"ALo:p/o:p/span/b/h4p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"bispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.cullmantimes.com/localsports/local_story_351000037.html"Auburn?s/a choice of White football coach sparks ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"race discrimination/span/i debatebspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"Sex discrim/span/i scandal leads to a href="http://www.cbs42.com/news/local/36266084.html"Blount County Sheriff/a resignation; EEOC charge/civil suit pending bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"strongAZ /strong/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"bispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanIndependent investigation says no ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"gender discrim/retal/span/i at a href="http://news.ktar.com/?nid=6amp;sid=1008418"Tempe/a water plant; more a href="http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/132361"here/a; read the investigation report a href="http://www.azcentral.com/ic/community/calderon1212.pdf"here/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/ph2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"span style="font-size:100%;"CA/span/h2h5 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="font-size:100%;"ispan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" /span/iDECIDED/span/h5p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/span[12-3] Jury tells a href="http://www.wavenewspapers.com/default.asp?sourceid=amp;smenu=78amp;twindow=Defaultamp;mad=Noamp;sdetail=11785amp;wpage=1amp;skeyword=amp;sidate=amp;ccat=amp;ccatm=amp;restate=amp;restatus=amp;reoption=amp;retype=amp;repmin=amp;repmax=amp;rebed=amp;rebath=amp;subname=amp;pform=amp;sc=1019amp;hn=wavenewspape%20"Costco/a to pay span style="font-family:';"$420K/span to ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"gay /span/iee for ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"HWE/retal/span/i; span style="font-family:';"$350K/span atty fees on deckbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/span[12-11] St Ct App: ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"$1 /spanspan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"in atty fees/span/i awarded against fired employee for frivolous disability span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/span[12-16] a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1080507.html"Fresno Cnty/a DA hit w/ span style="font-family:';"$350K/span JV on fem ex-investigator?s claims of ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"gender discrim + retal/span/ibspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"FILEDo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081212/circuit_city_lawsuit.html?.v=1"Circuit City/a to pay span style="font-family:';"$15M /spanto settle over 200 ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"age/lay off discrim/span/i claims bispan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanFem ex-a href="http://www.paradisepost.com/ci_11219826"Paradise/a cop?s ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"gender discrim/harass/span/i suit may not be strong/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"br /bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanbReport:/b In the a href="http://laist.com/2008/12/16/need_money_youre_a_victim_of_discri.php"Los Angeles Civil Court/a system, ieveryone is a victim of discrimination and /ispan style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)"/span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanbispan style="color:black;"SETTLED/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"br /bispan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.fresnobee.com/sports/story/1077590.html"California State U/a reaches span style="font-family:';"$5.2M/span settlement w/ non-renewed fem volley ball coach over ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"sexual orientation/retaliation/span/i claims bispan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"bispan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b /pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"DCo:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanHolder USAG nomination puts ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"Black attorney experience/span/i at a href="http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com/?p=750"Covington and Burling/a under scrutiny; and a href="http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com/?p=771"here/a, a href="http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com/?p=800"here/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/ph2span style="font-size:100%;"FL/span/h2p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"FILEDo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/span[12-12] USDOJ sues a href="http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=24090amp;z=3"Bonita Springs/a for ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"HWE discrim vs Black employee;/span/ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" /spanDOJ press release a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/December/08-crt-1099.html"here/a; DOJ lawsuit a href="http://www.news-press.com/assets/pdf/A41242751212.PDF"here/a; says a href="http://www.winknews.com/news/local/36109904.html"here/a that the city will investigate; more a href="http://news-press.com/article/20081216/NEWS0102/812160372"here/a; Lee County OEO 12-28-06 Notice of Reasonable Cause Determination a href="http://www.news-press.com/assets/pdf/A41244431215.PDF"here/abispan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/span[12-17] USDOJ sues a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20081217/pl_usnw/justice_department_files_sex_discrimination_lawsuit_against_hendry_county__florida_sheriff_s_office"Hendry County/a Sheriff/Cnty Commissioners for ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"pregnancy discrim/span/i in the Sheriff?s office bispan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b /pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"GAo:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"FILEDo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanFired a href="http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/news.apx.-content-articles-SAV-2008-12-11-0027.html"Savannah/a fem firefighter sues for ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"gender discrim/span/i; says she was fired for MySpace photos but men, with same type of photos, were notbispan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b /pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"IDo:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/7193/48:testset/"UI/a employees needing ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"disability accommodation/span/i must complete ?span style="color:black;"Reasonable Accommodations in Employment Information Form?, which, Dep AG says, imay violate the ADA/i /spanbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b /pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"ILo:p/o:p/span/b/ph5 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="font-size:100%;"ispan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" /span/iDECIDED/span/h5p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/span[11-24] a href="http://www.ledgersentinel.com/article.asp?a=7672"Kendall County Health Department/a wins dismissal of ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"gender discrim/span/i suit by fired male employee who alleged that fem Exec Dir ipermeated the workforce with her hostility and discontent for males and male employees/ibspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/ph6span style="font-size:100%;"o:p/o:p/span /h6h6span style="font-size:100%;"LA/span/h6p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanbiNEWS/io:p/o:p/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanspan class="vitstoryheadline"span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"a href="http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl121708cbsurvey.7116a3f0.html?npc"span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"Survey:/span/a /spaniDiscrimination spans all racial groups/i/spanbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/ph2span style="font-size:100%;"ME/span/h2p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanbispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"Age Discrim/span/ispan style="COLOR: rgb(85,85,85)": a href="http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/local/1215emspension.html"Baltimore Co/a, EEOC to face off on pension in court/spanspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b /pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"MIo:p/o:p/span/b/ph5 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="font-size:100%;"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanispan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"/span/iDECIDED/span/h5p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/span[12-9] Jury clears a href="http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=283301amp;pub=1amp;div=News"Ashley Furniture Industries Inc/a. in ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"age/layoff discrim/span/i trial bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:black;"/spanbispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanPetitions circulating to repeal a href="http://www.mlive.com/kzgazette/news/index.ssf/2008/12/petitions_target_rescinding_ne.html"Kalamazoo/a ordinance banning ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"gay/lesbian/transgender discrim/span/i bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b /pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"MNo:p/o:p/span/b/ph5 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="font-size:100%;"ispan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" /span/iDECIDED/span/h5p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/span[12-15] a href="http://news.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=2amp;a=375541"Rochester/a wins dismissal of ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"discrimination /span/isuit by 2 rejected firefighter applicants; ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"one Native American, one woman/span/i bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/ph2span style="font-size:100%;"MO/span/h2p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"FILEDo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanBlack ex-mgr sues a href="http://www.ky3.com/news/local/36075124.html"Burger King/a for ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"race harass/discrim/span/i; alleges n-word, jokes, noose; read lawsuit a href="http://media.ky3.com/documents/Ernest+Davis+lawsuit.pdf"here/abispan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanstrongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: rgb(17,17,17)"a href="http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/938437.html"Harrah?s North Kansas City Casino and Hotel/a sued by fem ex-Marketing Dept ee for ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"sex harass + retal/span/i/span/strongbispan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanEx-a href="http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/12/13/former-aide-says-mayors-wife-was-team-member/"KC/a Mayor?s Comm Dir says in ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"discrim/harass suit/span/i dep0sition that iMayor?s wife lit sage to rid office of ?evil spirits?/i; a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081216/ap_on_re_us/kc_mayor_s_mess_1"new complaint/a filed bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b /pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"NEo:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"FILEDo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/span[12-5] iWitch sues/i: Says a href="http://journalstar.com/articles/2008/12/13/news/local/doc4942c95fa06bc553104199.txt"Univ Neb/a discharge was ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"religion discrim/spanbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/i/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.kolnkgin.com/news/headlines/36089124.html"?Zip code splits?/a re insurance plans leads to ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"Back State employees race discrim suit/span/ispan style="color:red;" bo:p/o:p/b/span/ph2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"o:pspan style="font-size:100%;"/span/o:p /h2h2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"span style="font-size:100%;"NJ/span/h2h5 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="font-size:100%;"DECIDED/span/h5p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://jnirenberg.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/court-finds-employee-can-prove-termination-was-discriminatory-even-if-ultimate-decisionmaker-had-no-discriminatory-animus/"St Ct App/a: Employee?s gay/discharge claim can proceed even if decision maker had no discriminatory animus; ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"discusses ?subordinate bias?, ?rubber stamp? and ?cats-paw? theories/span/i bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"FILEDo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20081216/NEWS/812160338amp;referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL"Bridgewater Township/a sued by Black cop for ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"race/promotion + retal/spanbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/i/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanstrongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;color:red;" /span/strongstrongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"Statute of limitations no bar to ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"anti-Semitic discrimination/span/i suit vs a href="http://www.ogletreedeakins.com/publications/index.cfm?Fuseaction=PubDetailamp;publicationid=608"Atlantic Casting and Engineering Corp/a where employee can show continuation of conduct/span/strongstrongspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/strong/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanstrongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"a href="http://www.ogletreedeakins.com/publications/index.cfm?Fuseaction=PubDetailamp;publicationid=602"Bill/a to iAmend Law Against Discrimination in Significant Ways/i Advances/span/strong/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"br //pdiv style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"strongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"/span/strongbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/divdiv style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"/divh2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"span style="font-size:100%;"NY/span/h2p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20081214/NEWS01/812140397"Binghamton/a to consider ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"transgender discrim/span/i ban; says a href="http://news10now.com/default.aspx?ArID=129979"here/a that the bill passed on 12-15bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"SETTLED/span/i/bbspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=67706amp;rnews_story_type=18"Greece School District/a settles ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"age/retal/span/i claims w/ 4supth/sup of 5 teachers who filed discrim suits; more a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20081213/NEWS01/812130327/1002/NEWS"here/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://burbsbiz.lohudblogs.com/2008/12/15/former-monsey-company-reaches-eeoc-complaint/"American Track and Hardware/a pays span style="font-family:';"$325K/span to settle EEOC suit for ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"sex harass of fems/span/i bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b /pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"NCo:p/o:p/span/b/ph5 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="font-size:100%;"ispan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" /span/iDECIDED/span/h5p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2008/12/15/story11.html?ana=from_rss"Bank of America/a fails in bid to dismiss ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"disability discrim suit/span/i by fired quadriplegic programmerbr //pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"br /bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/ph2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"span style="font-size:100%;"OH/span/h2h5 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="font-size:100%;"ispan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" /span/iDECIDED/span/h5p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/span[12-10] Jury tells a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20081212/BUSINESS01/812120312/1210/BUSINESS"UAW Local 12/a to pay span style="font-family:';"$300K/span to Chrysler Jeep Plant fem for failing to protect her from ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"sex harass/span/i by male Union steward; + tells perp to pay span style="font-family:';"$1K/span as well; trial vs Chrysler sked for early ?09bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/span[12-15] Jury awards over span style="font-family:';"$2M/span to Black ex-a href="http://www.ohio.com/news/ap?articleID=1281442amp;c=y"Woodmere/a police chief for ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"retaliation/span/i for supporting discrim claims of 2 White cops; and a href="http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=103172"here/abspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"FILEDo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanReassigned 56yo orchestra reviewer sues for ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"age discrim/span/i; names a href="http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/36002059.html?page=1amp;c=y"Cleveland Plain Dealer/a and Cleveland Orchestra bispan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:black;" /spanbispan style="color:black;"NEWSo:p/o:p/span/i/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spana href="http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2008/12/15/focus1.html?b=1229317200%5E1746960"Risk of employment litigation/a icomes to a crescendo/ibspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanstrongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;color:red;" /span/strongstrongspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;color:black;" ACLU Encourages a href="http://cleveland.indymedia.org/news/2008/12/33482.php"Cleveland City Council/a to Expand ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"LGBT Rights/span/i/spanspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/strong/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="font-family:Symbol;color:red;"/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"Gender-identity/span/i protection on a href="http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/12/14/protected.html?type=rssamp;cat=amp;sid=101"Columbus/a City Council's agendabspan style="color:red;" o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanspan style="COLOR: rgb(41,48,59)"[12-15] a href="http://hapnerlaw.blogspot.com/2008/12/columbus-city-council-expands-classes.html"Columbus/a expands discrim protection to ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"gender identity/expression, age, disability, and military and familial status/span/ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"?/span; more a href="http://www.nbc4i.com/midwest/cmh/search.apx.-content-articles-CMH-2008-12-16-0005.html"here,/a including video link/spanbspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"span style="color:blue;"span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)" /span/spanspan style="color:red;"/spanUnions fear a href="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/12/15/council16.html?sid=101"Columbus Department of Development/a targeting ispan style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,153); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"Blacks and over-50?s/span/i for layoff bspan style="color:red;"o:p/o:p/span/b/pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"o:p/o:p/span/b /pp class="MsoNormal"bspan style="color:black;"OKo:p/o:p/span

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