Discrimination Articles page 6

Baltimore Sun - Describing the sentence of Andrew Maurice Fisher as "blatant discrimination," Pat Ferguson, president of the local NAACP chapter, likened the situation to that of the "Jena 6" case, in which claims of racial discrimination have been made involving ...

Boston Globe - The International Brotherhood of Goalies already has engaged legal counsel for a potential discrimination suit. It can get awfully cold standing in front of that 24-square-foot guard shack. Etc. Better 'tending through aerobics Bruins goalie Tim Thomas ...

Guardian Unlimited - We would love to have more judges who are women and/or from ethnic minorities, provided they're chosen on merit and not by positive discrimination or the setting of quotas. Over the past 15 or so years successive lord chancellors have promised, and ...

Boston Globe - Layton seldom encountered discrimination, except in the one place where he felt the wound most acutely: his home state of Virginia. "I know firsthand what it is like to be excluded, deliberately passed over, discriminated against, even insulted ...

Reuters - This is a new form of colonisation, of discrimination, and it will be very hard to find support for it among southern countries," said Moroccan international economic law professor Tajeddine El Husseini. "They spend a lot of money educating and ...

Washington Post - An attorney for the farm's owner has called on the Justice Department to investigate whether town officials violated the federal law that prohibits discrimination against religious institutions in land use applications. The attorney, Roman P. Storzer ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Down that path lie dangerous new forms of discrimination and inequality, and vastly widened social rifts. Advocates of this eugenic vision understand that few people are willing to entrust even Nobel Prize winners with the future of the species. How ...

Detroit News - DEARBORN -- One of three female Dearborn police officers who have filed sexual discrimination lawsuits against the city alleges Mayor John B. O'Reilly Jr. offered her a six-figure buyout if she would promise not to testify in the other two cases ...

Globe and Mail - While the word discrimination hasn't come up at Brock University yet, Michael Lynk, a professor of constitutional law at UWO, says that even if it did, the argument likely wouldn't hold up in court. "As long as the bylaws are not targeted specifically ...

BBC Africa - These developments are very good news for the people of the region. We applaud the excellent collaboration we have seen thus far." The ONLF was founded in 1984 and is fighting for independence from Ethiopia, complaining of discrimination by the ...