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...first, saying that even if it had fired him solely because of his age--which it denied--only older people could sue on such grounds. But after a five-year battle, New Jersey's highest court disagreed, ruling in February that the state's Law Against Discrimination prohibits bias based on any consideration of age. The case now goes to trial to determine if the bank, in fact, fired Sisler because of his age. (Bergen has never fully told its side of the story. But Bergen lawyer Angelo Genova said Sisler wasn't performing up to the bank's standards...
...Jersey decision was unusual. The bank would have already prevailed in most states, where antidiscrimination laws--like the federal one--set a minimum age of 40 for those claiming age bias. The New Jersey ruling wasn't unprecedented, though. In the 1980s, courts in Maine, New York and Oregon allowed similar suits to proceed almost unnoticed. But the New Jersey court has a reputation for issuing cutting-edge rulings in employment law. (The state's liberal decisions on sexual-harassment law foreshadowed a national push to broaden the scope of such law.) Eighteen other states have similar antidiscrimination statutes, with...
...this year's 10 fellows are also graduates of the law school, but Shabecoff said the Harvard bias was not intentional...
...some reason, Sofen seems genuinely shocked that the museum he visited in Mississippi didn't echo the anti-South bias he had been taught in history class...
...courts stated basically 'we're not going to second guess administrators as long as there is no race and gender bias...we're not going to get involved in these matters,'" MacLeish said...