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Estes Express Lines, a trucking company based in Virginia, has agreed to settle the racial discrimination lawsuit filed by former employee Morris Young of Richland, Mississippi. According the the lawsuit, Young was suspended from his job in May 2005 following accusations that he had stolen tobacco from a shipment to the dock where he worked. […]

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Heather Kearney of Des Moines, Iowa, was hired by the state’s Department of Public Safety in March 2007. During her time working as a Criminal Intelligence Analyst, she claims that she was turned down for promotions given to men no more qualified than her. The final straw came in August 2007, when she was dismissed […]

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Willis McLemore of Charleston, WV, has filed a lawsuit against the Kanawha County school board, Capital High School’s principle Clinton Giles, and his former supervisor Frank Thompson, claiming that he was subjected to a hostile work environment because he is African American. McLemore worked as a custodian at Capital High School from January 2007 until […]

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Nieland Bynoe of Harrisburg, PA, has filed a lawsuit against UPS Freight claiming that he was fired from his new job as a delivery driver for discriminatory reasons. According the suit, Bynoe attended an orientation meeting in 2007 where he was told that he would have to shave his beard and cut off his dreadlocks […]

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48 year old Dino Theodore of Dracut, MA, has filed a lawsuit against Massachusetts General Hospital for failing to meet the standard of reasonable accommodation  required by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Theodore, who uses a wheelchair, claims that he was bed-ridden for five days in April while undergoing testing for cancer at the hospital […]

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A Sonic fast food restaurant in Kingwood, near Houston TX, is facing charges of sexual harassment and retaliation from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The lawsuit, which is being filed along with dozens of other EEOC work-related suits around the country, alleges that a relative of the restaurant’s owner was given a management job despite […]

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The civil rights division of the Justice Department has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against Washington, DC’s metro transit system. The suit has been filed on behalf of Gloria Jones after she applied for a position as a bus driver and was turned down. According to Jones, the reason she was not hire was related […]

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Richard M Stamm, age 59 of Brookfield, WI, has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, the Holter Financial Group of New Berlin, WI. Stamm was terminated in February 2008 despite, he claims, 34 years of experience and a work performance that was superior to younger employees. He alleges that his termination was based entirely […]

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Jennifer Brooks, Giuletta Consalvo, and Michelle Hasiuk, all former employees of the restaurant known as the Hawaiian Tropic Zone, have filed a $600 million lawsuit against their former employers. The lawsuit, which targets the Tropic Zone’s owner, The Riese Company, alleges that management of the Hawaiian Tropic Zone, located in Times Square, turned a blind […]

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