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Philadelphia Daily News - A group of agents has filed an age-discrimination suit against the FBI that seeks to reverse the policy. Last month, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission judge conditionally certified the class of supervisors, allowing the case to move forward. ...

Boston Globe - Made in the midst of an election-year furor over immigration, the Tennessee Republican's proposal was spurred by the discrimination lawsuit against the Framingham thrift store, filed in federal court in Boston in March by the US Equal Employment ...

Detroit Free Press - Some of the bits have some edge, including the un-PC take on discrimination À la "Remember the Titans" where a bench is cleared of all of its black players, leaving the sole white kid behind. And you can't help but chuckle at our hero's Coach Carter ...

Jackson Clarion-Ledger - BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Seven black workers who said they were subjected to hangman’s nooses in a racially hostile environment on an offshore oil rig will share in a $290,000 settlement of a discrimination lawsuit filed in Mississippi, federal ...

NPR News - All Things Considered , October 18, 2007 · A House committee is considering an employment anti-discrimination bill that includes protection for gays and lesbians, but not for transgender people. Some in the gay community argue that the exclusion is ...

News.com.au - The Federal Government should pass laws prohibiting health discrimination on the basis of consumption choices. Otherwise the character and moral failings of medicos will result in an increasing amount of preventable suffering in the community. Dr ...

Global Reinsurance Online - Willis settles class action but continues to deny any gender discrimination Willis Group has announced that the federal court in New York has given preliminary approval to the settlement of a class action suit filed against the company in 2001 that ...

Globe and Mail - Opponents of the new system say the measures amount to discrimination against foreigners and a violation of their right to privacy. Tokyo's staunch support of the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and dispatch of forces to each region have ...

Edmonton Journal - KENSINGTON, P.E.I. - The president of the Kensington Minor Hockey Association in P.E.I. has stepped down after a controversial decision by the board to not allow a girls team to play in a tournament. Michael Clark, whose daughter is part of the team ...

Guardian Unlimited - Israel is a democratic state but in practice there is discrimination on many levels. But it doesn't mean we should give up and not try to implement co-existence." The message is everywhere. One class of excited 10-year-olds sat before their two ...