Sentences with phrase «discrimination ruling against them»

Legal Feeds Blog Appeal court upholds racial discrimination ruling against Peel law librarian Two black lawyers and an articling student who were asked to show their IDs in a Brampton, Ont., court several years ago were discriminated against based on their race, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Thursday.

The Christian owners of a bakery have arrived in court to appeal a discrimination ruling against them,... More

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The state of Washington became the first state to pass its own net neutrality legislation after the Federal Communications Commission last year repealed its own rules barring discrimination against online sites and content.

Wheeler's decision to stick with the voluntary protocol by stepping down when a new president is elected likely spells a quick death for his major communications policies, including net neutrality rules that prohibit discrimination against Internet sites and services.

In two cases against the U.S. Postal Service in 2011, the EEOC ruled that gender stereotyping claims are indeed sex - discrimination claims.

In fact, in December 2017 a Virginia district court judge ruled against a female plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation against defense contractor BAE Systems, in part, because she «did not take advantage of BAE's harassment reporting procedures of which she was well aware.»

Supporters of net neutrality threatened to go to court if Trump administration regulators move to weaken the rules barring discrimination against web sites and online services.

Ashers bakery has been told it may be able to take its fight against a discrimination ruling to the UK... More

If you were to look at many (if not most) college campuses in the US, you'd find a similar rule against discrimination.

CNN: Split ruling on discrimination against UK Christians A British Christian woman suffered religious discrimination when British Airways told her not to wear a visible cross over her uniform, a top European court ruled Tuesday.

reveals no instance where the Court ruled on the merits of a civil, criminal, or administrative action involving government favoritism or discrimination against a particular religion.

The ever vigilant state charged her with illegal discrimination and took her to court, where the California Supreme Court ruled against her appeal to the free exercise of her religion.

In multiple cases, courts have ruled that such discrimination against orthodox persons and organisations is illegal but, as French notes, that doesn't stop the academic thought patrol from trying again and again.

Instead, Eisgruber and Sager suggest that an exemption is warranted because, in all likelihood, other officers are exempt from the grooming rules for nonreligious reasons, and so to fail to accommodate the Muslim officers would amount to discrimination against them.

A rule banning specifically Muslim religious clothing may constitute direct discrimination against Muslims, but in these two cases the rules more generally banned visible religious clothing, in pursuit of a policy of neutrality, so it was found that direct discrimination had not occurred.

As Avi pointed out the Supreme Court has ruled against discrimination based on race but racial discrimination is protected by federal law and would have been illegal even outside of the primaries.

That decision came after the New York State Legislature failed to pass the Women's Equality Act, which Gov. Cuomo said would close the gap between men's and women's salaries, introduce zero - tolerance rules against sexual harassment, fight workplace discrimination due to gender and protect abortion rights.

The UK leaving the European Union could put some protection of important rights at risk: there is a danger that labour rights and protections against discrimination in UK law, which are underpinned by EU rules, could be watered down by parliament in future.

«If we're faced with a choice of saying look you can either have these regulations that ensure we don't discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation, or you can't have these regulations at all, which is the choice, I shall vote for the regulation, because I think it's right that we have in this country clear rules against discrimination,» he told BBC Radio Four's Today.

Last year, Manhattan Judge Shlomo Hagler had ruled against Dilek, saying her cuteness quotient couldn't be cited as the basis for a discrimination claim.

Helicopter traffic at East Hampton Airport can not be curtailed at the moment, since the FAA contributed money toward infrastructure improvements there, and FAA rules prohibit any discrimination against certain types of aircraft.

This includes restoring rules allowing Office for Civil Rights investigators to look at years of past complaints against districts to determine patterns of discrimination, hiring more investigators to look into patterns of disparate impact, and even requiring states such as Maryland to implement stronger rules against overuse of harsh discipline.

Washington courts may approve of state discrimination against religion, but the U.S. Supreme Court has adopted instead a rule of neutrality: «State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions, than it is to favor them.»

I probably cover Lakewood's morally and fiscally bankrupt schools too often, but this Ocean County school district that enrolls almost entirely Latino and Black low - income students pushes all my education reform buttons: tyranny of the majority (in this case the ultra-Orthodox residents who control the municipal government and the school board); lack of accountability; lack of school choice for poor kids of color but anything goes (at public expense) for children of the ruling class; discrimination against minority special education students.

OH RESIDENTS: The Ohio rules against discrimination require that all creditors make credit equally available to all creditworthy customers and that credit reporting agencies maintain separate credit histories on each individual upon request.

3) New York Court rules no legal basis for breed discrimination - Very Good Sentences - The New York Supreme Court once again ruled that there is no legal basis for discriminating against breeds of dogs.

Scott monitors state rulings, legislation and court decisions that impact taxpayers and guides his clients in a broad range of substantive issues, from business restructuring and transactional tax planning to constitutional questions such as nexus, discrimination against interstate commerce and unitary combination.

The committee's proposal «moves beyond the comment to craft a distinct rule within the black letter of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct prohibiting lawyers from engaging in harassment and knowing discrimination in conduct related to the practice of law» against people on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status.

«A prohibition against discrimination must be the rule.»

The UK Supreme Court recently ruled that civil service employees do not have to show the reason why they were disadvantaged to progress their claims of indirect discrimination against their employer, the Home Office.

Harrod and others v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police and others Court of Appeal, [2017] IRLR 539; [2017] Pens LR 11 The Court of Appeal has upheld ruling of the EAT, [2015] IRLR 790, in which the EAT allowed the police forces» appeal against a finding that compulsory retirement arrangements for police officers amount to unlawful age discrimination.

«With the recent ruling awarding 30 million dollars to saleswoman Laura Zubulake, who won her sex discrimination case against UBS with the help of subpoenaed e-mail messages, a Pandora's box of issues is emerging regarding work - product privileges in this new age of electronic communications.

The ruling on a landmark case to stop federal government discrimination against First Nations children is expected this spring.

If the default rule does not apply because a civil rights law unrelated to immigration bars discrimination against a tenant, someone's undocumented immigrant status probably doesn't provide an absolute defense to the civil rights law, but might be one factor among many that a landlord could consider in choosing among available tenants in much the same way that credit ratings, income, and a prospective tenant's criminal record, and other factors might be considered.

The court agreed in a landmark ruling that «made it impossible for employers to successfully argue that discrimination against pregnant employees was not discrimination under human rights legislation,» according to employment lawyers at Rubin Thomlinson LLP.

The high court ruled that the Law Against Discrimination's two - year limitations period for bringing a discrimination case against an employer was a «public - purpose imperative» and that any contractual clause that shortened this time period was automatically unenforceable because it was contrary to public Against Discrimination's two - year limitations period for bringing a discrimination case against an employer was a «public - purpose imperative» and that any contractual clause that shortened this time period was automatically unenforceable because it was contrary to Discrimination's two - year limitations period for bringing a discrimination case against an employer was a «public - purpose imperative» and that any contractual clause that shortened this time period was automatically unenforceable because it was contrary to discrimination case against an employer was a «public - purpose imperative» and that any contractual clause that shortened this time period was automatically unenforceable because it was contrary to public against an employer was a «public - purpose imperative» and that any contractual clause that shortened this time period was automatically unenforceable because it was contrary to public policy.

The high court ruled that an employer and an employee can not, through a contractual agreement, shorten the length of time an employee has to pursue his rights under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.

Affirming trial court's ruling that the defendant insurer did not violate the prohibition against «unfair discrimination» in Conn..

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) expressly rules against any form of discrimination or harassment in the workplace.

London South Employment Tribunal has today (23 February 2012) ruled that Merton Council did not unlawfully discriminate against Celestina Mba, a devout Christian, on the grounds of religious discrimination when it asked her to work on Sundays.

The issue of discrimination against LGBT people is again making legal headlines as a federal appeals court in Atlanta recently ruled that Title VII does not include within it a protection for workers who suffer discrimination based upon their sexual orientation.

Prior decisions such as Entrop, and the Court of Queen's Bench ruling in Kellogg, Brown & Root held that there was a prima facie case of discrimination because the employer discriminated against all drug users on the ground of a» perceived disability».

In Tuesday's ruling siding with IMDb, Chhabria described AB 1687 as a misguided law that should have instead aimed to fight discrimination against women, since age bias in Hollywood is «at root... far more a problem of sex discrimination.»

London South Employment Tribunal has today (23 February 2012) ruled that Merton Council did not unlawfully discriminate against Celestina Mba, a devout Christian, on the grounds of religious discrimination when it asked her to...

But the EEOC's position, and a 7th Circuit ruling against Sidley & Austin in an age discrimination case, is that many so - called «partners» are really «employees» with fancy titles — e.g., if they lack a meaningful equity stake or role running the firm.

installation of a hot line or a contact person through which or to whom employees can report irregularities, incidents of discrimination, sexual harassment, bullying or mobbing without facing retaliation and recognisable disciplinary measures against those who do not obey to these rules;

Prohibition against discrimination in employment extends beyond employer - employee relationship, Supreme Court of Canada rules

In addition to reporting all decisions issued by the Supreme Judicial Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly also covers hundreds of rulings from state and federal trial courts in Massachusetts, and state agencies like the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

The ECJ has ruled (following the advocate general's opinion, but with one potentially important gloss) that in both of these forms of discrimination the effectiveness of the Directive requires acceptance of the concept of associative discrimination, ie that she could be discriminated against because of her child's disability.

Critical feminist interrogation of the Canadian Bar Association's Code of Professional Conduct and the Law Society of Upper Canada's Rules of Professional Conduct reveals that lawyers» general right to refuse providing services to clients who can not pay results in adverse discrimination against a group protected by Ontario's Human Rights Code.