Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paolillo's alleged comments come in the midst of a $15 million lawsuit against the city for discrimination in the police department. Paolillo is included in that suit as a defendant...
...attorney for the Cambridge Afro-American Police Association, which filed the suit, said he would refer to the comment during the trial to reflect the racial insensitivity within the police department...
...doesn't make much sense for someone who is a defendant in a civil rights case to stand up and tell a racist joke," said Douglas Louison, the lawyer representing the officers in their suit. Louison said that while telling the joke "doesn't rise to a violation" of Constitutional rights or warrant additional charges, the incident suggests a lack of "sensitivity" on Paolillo's part...
...cultivating good relations with the U.S., China may have to stop playing the panda card. Last week the World Wildlife Fund and the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums filed suit in federal court in Washington to halt the shipment of two giant pandas from Shanghai to the Toledo Zoo. Experts contend that the endangered species' population has fallen below 1,000 and that the 100 pandas in captivity reproduce at a lower rate than those in the wild...
...object of international attention in 1976, when a United Nations human rights commission report identified the camp as one of Chile's detention centers. The next year the West German branch of Amnesty International denounced Colonia Dignidad as a DINA torture center. The colony responded by launching a defamation suit in West Germany against Amnesty International, a legal dispute that continues today...