Word: lawsuits
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...filed a major lawsuit for discrimination by video résumé. But George Lenard, a St. Louis, Mo., employment lawyer, can envision a case centered on "disparate impact." If an employer requires applications by video, then those without video cameras and broadband-equipped computers might argue they lacked access. Of course, he adds, the live interview process is hardly infallible. He cites a 2000 Princeton study that examined orchestras' penchant for hiring male musicians as an example of "disparate treatment." When screens were put up--now a common practice in auditions--the gender skewing disappeared...
...Percocet from me. The patient is still out of work. Pain worsening. Initiating a possible lawsuit...
...entire University of Missouri system if more than $10,000 cut from the paper’s 2007–2008 budget was not restored by a deadline set by the paper’s editors. That deadline passed at 5:00 p.m. yesterday, and editors say the lawsuit is moving forward. One week ago yesterday, The Missouri Miner—UMR’s student paper—sent a letter to administrators of both UMR and the University of Missouri system, stating their disagreement with a Student Council decision last November to cut the paper?...
...bigger question is: assuming they win the merits, can this American company make a lawsuit against a Chinese company for copyright or trade dress violations?” he said...
...contest pits the Grand Mosque of Paris and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France against the editors of the satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo, in a lawsuit citing anti-racism laws over the magazine's February 2006 publication of those Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that caused a global uproar. The complaint describes the decision to reprint the drawings as "born of a simplistic Islamophobia and purely commercial interests"; as having "insulted people on the basis of religion"; and as a "provocation aimed against the Islamic community...