Anti-Poverty Agency Sues Town for Discrimination

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Oct 252007
 

Anti-poverty agency South Middlesex Opportunity Council is suing the officials and residents of Framingham, Massachusetts for discrimination. The lawsuit, filed in Boston, is claiming that town officials and two residents have violated the civil rights of the disabled people they represent.

According to the lawsuit the Framingham officials and residents engaged in a “not in my backyard” effort to rid the town of the disabled residents in a group home. In addition, the allegations claim that the officials and residents illegally delayed the expansion of the group home.

The most recent lawsuit is the third in two years against the city claiming civil rights violations.

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Kentucky Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Filed

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Sep 272007
 

A teacher in the Jefferson County Public School (JCPS) District has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the elementary school where she works. This comes right after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision involving the same school district over similar charges.

Fifth-grade teacher Lorraine Hill, who is black, is claiming that she was denied a transfer to a school closer to her resident solely because of her race. The lawsuit states that the JCPS policy of Singleton Ratio is a discriminatory quota that limits the hiring and transferring of African-American teachers to 15-percent.

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Yahoo Human Rights Lawsuit

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Aug 282007
 

Yahoo has been accused of aiding the Chinese government in stopping the spread of democracy in that country. In San Francisco federal court, the World Organization for Human Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of Wang Xiaoning’s wife.

Wang Xiaoning was jailed in China for the online promotion of democracy and subversive behavior against the government. Yahoo is accused of aiding and abetting the Chinese government by collecting personal data such as name and address of its bloggers and handing this information over to the Chinese.

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McDonald’s In Hot Water Again with Lawsuit

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Jul 102007
 

Well, the hot coffee lawsuit against McDonald’s several years ago was bad enough and now the mega-burger chain is in hot water again for refusing service to a woman born with Holt-Oram Syndrome (hands six inches from her shoulders).

Since birth, Dawn Larson has used her feet instead of her hands and has even managed to grasp hold of a driver’s permit. According to the lawsuit, an employee and manager at the McDonald’s restaurant in Rockford, Illinois refused her service because of her disability. The employee is reported to have said, before closing the window on Larson, “Oh, no, I’m not doing this”.

To add insult to injury, Larson later received from McDonald’s $10 in gift certificates to compensate her for the humiliating incident witnessed by her children who were in the car at the time. The amount of the lawsuit has not been disclosed.

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Man Disabled by Drunken Driver Wins Lawsuit Over Access

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May 172007
 

A man who was disabled by a drunken driver and confined to a wheelchair has sued and won a lawsuit against the city of Riverside, California for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). John Lonberg sued the city 10 years ago and finally won his court case.

The city was shown to be in violation of 189 access points on curbs. The city of Riverside has 4 months to fix all curbs and must pay Mr. Lonberg $221,000 in damages for inhibited him from becoming a “self-reliant member of the community”.

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