Student Organization Brings Race Bias Suit Against Yale
Weeks after the Biden administration said it would not pursue an admissions bias suit against Yale University, a student group sued the Connecticut Ivy League school.
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House Passes Equality Act, Bolstering LGBTQ Protections
The bill expands federal protections for LGBTQ people by prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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UK’s MI6 Apologizes for Past Treatment of LGBT Spies
The head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service apologized Friday to gay spies and aspiring agents who were fired or denied jobs because of their sexuality.
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NYC Transit Authority Accused of Using Covid to Boot Homeless From Subways
Homeless advocacy groups sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Friday, seeking to block Covid-19 rules that they say effectively ban the homeless from sheltering in New York City subway trains and stations.
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Attacks on Older Asians Stoke Fear in Bay Area’s Chinatowns
Police are stepping up their patrols and volunteers are increasing their street presence after several violent attacks on older Asians stoked fear in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Chinatowns and subdued the celebratory mood leading up to Lunar New Year.
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Minority Jail Staffers Sue After Being Kept Away From Accused Floyd Killer
Minority correctional officers at St. Paul’s Ramsey County Adult Detention Center filed a race discrimination suit against the county Tuesday, claiming their boss segregated jail staff last May in order to keep Black officers off the floor housing fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
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Catholic Church Argues for Exception to Worker Rights at Seventh Circuit
The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago said in an appeals court hearing Tuesday that it has the right to treat certain employees however it wants, despite that conduct being discriminatory in a secular workplace.
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Utah Parents Drop Black History Curriculum Opt-Out Request
Parents who sought to opt out their children from learning Black History Month curriculum at a charter school in northern Utah have withdrawn their requests.
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Two Christians Publicly Flogged in Indonesia for Drinking, Gambling
Two Christian men were publicly flogged Monday in Indonesia’s ultra-conservative Aceh province for drinking alcohol and gambling, in a rare instance of non-Muslims facing a punishment frequently condemned by rights groups.
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A federal court in California ruled against a putative class of chronic pain patients who claimed Walgreens and Costco violate state law and federal discrimination statutes by interfering with their access to opioids.
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UN High Court Turns Away Persian Gulf Blockade Dispute
The United Nations’ top court found on Thursday that it lacks jurisdiction to hear a dispute between Qatar and the United Arab Emirates over a land, air and sea blockade.
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New Administration Won’t Pursue Yale on Admissions Bias
It isn’t a whole new world in 2021, but Yale University learned Wednesday that it will no longer face discriminating charges from the U.S. Department of Justice..
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The Fifth Circuit reassigned a professor’s cases, in which she alleges that Sam Houston State University retaliated against her for making discrimination complaints, to a different judge in the Southern District of Texas. The judge presiding over her cases in the federal district court made prejudicial comments, saying he would “crush” the professor’s counsel in response to their opposition to consolidating her two cases.
Read moreCommunity Reinvestment
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition and the California Reinvestment Coalition’s suit against the Office of the Comptroller of Currency can continue, a federal court in California ruled. The coalitions claim the comptroller issued a final rule that “guts” the Community Reinvestment Act, which was passed to address systemic discrmination in the financial services provided to low and moderate-income communities.
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Massive Bias Damages for NYC Teachers Affirmed by 2nd Circuit
Upholding the first set of awards to Black and Latino teachers who were given a racially biased literacy test, the Second Circuit found that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in calculating individual damages.
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Racial Profiling by French Police Challenged in Class Action
In a first for France, six nongovernmental organizations launched a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the French government for alleged systemic discrimination by police officers carrying out identity checks.
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EU Employers Must Treat All Disabled Workers Equally, Court Rules
EU labor laws protect disabled workers from being treated differently than both nondisabled co-workers and others with disabilities, the union’s highest court said on Tuesday.
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Legislator Who Questioned Black Hygiene to Lead Health Panel
A Republican lawmaker and doctor who questioned whether members of “the colored population” were disproportionately contracting the coronavirus because of their hygiene is drawing new criticism from Black lawmakers after his appointment to lead the Ohio Senate Health Committee.
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