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I love TV commercials! hey make Nutella seem healthy! All those "simple, quality ingredients like hazelnuts, skim milk and a hint of cocoa." A subject of another lawsuit. You mean it is NOT healthy? No one checks the ingredients anyway.I love TV commercials! hey make Nutella seem healthy! All those "simple,... more
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Internships are also a way for some employers to exploit young and nowadays twenty and thirty-something talent and be too cheap pay for it. Where employers would get nailed with state wage and hour law violations, if a student is earning credit or if there is an educational benefit and they are not doing a job a paid employee would otherwise be doing, then it arguably becomes legally permissible to exploit them. And that is wrong.
Interns are starting to muster the backbone to object: Hearst Publications, Fox Searchlight and PBS’s The Charlie Rose Show are all facing lawsuits filed in the last year against them by unpaid interns.Internships are also a way for some employers to exploit young and nowadays twenty and... more
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Her face framed by a white scarf covering her head and hair — considered “a private part” for Muslim women — Susann Bashir grew sad Friday afternoon recalling her final encounter with a former boss.
She said she had already endured years of harassment by co-workers and had started pursuing a religious discrimination case against her employer when the supervisor, during a routine meeting in his office, snatched her scarf and exposed her hair.
Bashir sued, and this week a Jackson County jury awarded her $5 million in punitive damages against Southwestern Bell/AT&T, where she worked as a fiber optics network builder for more than 10 years.
Bashir said she endured religious discrimination nearly every day of the last three years she worked in the company’s downtown Kansas City office.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/04/3594755/muslim-woman-gets-huge-award-in.html#storylink=cpyHer face framed by a white scarf covering her head and hair — considered... more
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Be careful what you Like on Facebook. Clicking the blue thumbs-up button on the social network (or anywhere you can find it on the Web) could one day end up causing you quite a bit of trouble, and you won’t be able to legally shield yourself. That’s because Facebook Likes are not protected speech under the First Amendment, according to a recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson.
The case dates back to November 2009, when after winning a re-election against Jim Adams, Hampton Virginia Sheriff B.J. Roberts fired six of his employees for supporting Adams, three of whom had Liked his opponent’s Facebook Page. The three civilian workers and three uniformed deputy sheriffs were not pleased and vowed to fight back.
Bobby Bland, Daniel Carter, David Dixon, Robert McCoy, John Sandhofer, and Debra Woodward filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing their First Amendment rights were violated. The judge disagreed, as first reported by Ars Technica.
Full Story: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/judge-facebook-likes-not-protected-by-first-amendment/12191Be careful what you Like on Facebook. Clicking the blue thumbs-up button on the social... more
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(RT) We had reported on the show that a group of political activists and journalists testified in a New York Court about why they're suing the Obama administration over the National Defense Authorization Act or NDAA. Chris Hedges, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter is also one of the plaintiffs; he joins the show to discuss.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101720050
"You can allow for the indefinate military detention, even of US citizens despite of course a Promise by the President that he wouldn't do it!!!"
"I Hate to think of all the other things the POTUS promised he would not do!!!"(RT) We had reported on the show that a group of political activists and journalists... more
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At the start of the first hearing on a lawsuit challenging the Homeland Battlefield Act, a federal judge appeared to be “extremely skeptical” that those pursuing the challenge had grounds to sue the US government. However, by the end of the hearing, the judge acknowledged plaintiffs had made some strong arguments on why there was reason to be concerned about the Act, which passed as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on New Year’s Eve last year.
Adam Klasfeld of Courthouse News, one of the few media organizations that actually covered the hearing yesterday, reported that Judge Katherine B. Forrest cited the lack of definition of terms such as “substantial support” or “associated forces,” which appear in the law. Without clearly knowing what “substantial support” for terrorism or “associated forces” of terrorist groups could be, Forrest asked, “How does the common citizen know?”
Full Article: http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=148044
http://www.anunews.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/aa-NDAA-poster-criticizing-obama-300x296.jpgAt the start of the first hearing on a lawsuit challenging the Homeland Battlefield... more
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Prima Donna, Maria Valdez, is upset that her dressing room was not pink. Management was heard to say, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out."Prima Donna, Maria Valdez, is upset that her dressing room was not pink. Management... more
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A federal court ruled this Wednesday that David House will after all, have his day in court, despite the government's attempts to get the case dismissed. US customs agents had detained House, confiscated his laptop, thumb drive, and digital camera, and held on to the equipment for 49 days. He was also detained and questioned for over 90 minutes about his relationship with Bradley Manning, his work on the support network, and any association with Wikileaks. He argues that his first and fourth amendment rights were violated, as this was politically motivated. House joins the show to discuss
http://youtu.be/MMSN_qc3BqYA federal court ruled this Wednesday that David House will after all, have his day in... more
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A Michigan dentist claims a San Diego impound yard and collision shop negligently returned his stolen $120,000 Ferrari to the man who stole it from him, allowing the thief to drive it off a cliff.A Michigan dentist claims a San Diego impound yard and collision shop negligently... more
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Why does this pro-Romney Super PAC attack ad against Newter have the former Speaker so upset?....
http://veracitystew.com/?p=30743Why does this pro-Romney Super PAC attack ad against Newter have the former Speaker so... more
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A large part of what makes all of this so galling is that Santorum and the Right aren’t offering a “one size fits all” ideology. What this is really about are the Republican elites dictating what’s best for the less moral masses while living their own lives as they see fit. Karen Santorum is the perfect example of this.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=30636A large part of what makes all of this so galling is that Santorum and the Right... more
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) said Friday she would no longer block medical marijuana dispensaries from opening in the state. The news came in a statement announcing that the state would not try again after a lawsuit she filed blocking implementation was dismissed in federal court earlier this month.|
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http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2012/jan/13/arizona_governor_gives_medical_mArizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) said Friday she would no longer block medical marijuana... more
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A court hearing in New York City at the end of this month will determine if a "pre-emptive" lawsuit by a clutch of U.S. and Canadian organic producers against seed and ag chem firm Monsanto will go ahead.
U.S. District Judge Naomi Buchwald said she will hear oral arguments Jan. 31 in Manhattan on a motion by St. Louis, Mo.-based Monsanto to dismiss the suit filed last March 31 by a group of 83 farmers, seed growers and farm organizations.
The suit "seeks court protection for innocent family farmers who may become contaminated by Monsanto seed," according to a release last week from the Colorado-based lead plaintiff, the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA).
The suit, the plaintiffs claim, is "to protect themselves from being accused of patent infringement should their crops ever become contaminated by Monsanto's genetically modified seed."
"Last August we submitted our written rebuttal and it made clear that Monsanto's motion was without merit," OSGATA president Jim Gerritsen, a seed potato grower in northern Maine, said in the release. "Our legal team, from the Public Patent Foundation, is looking forward to orally presenting our position."
Canadian plaintiffs attached to the suit include Ottawa-based Canadian Organic Growers (COG), Quebec advocacy group Union Paysanne, the Manitoba Organic Alliance, the Peace River Organic Producers Association and a number of producers in Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.
"Monsanto's technology is harmful for organic producers and processors," COG executive director Beth McMahon said in a separate release this week. "To penalize our growers for GMO contamination adds insult to injury, and we won't back down from this fight."
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Monsanto's previous suits against farmers for alleged infringement on its patented seed suggest the company "intends to assert its transgenic seed patents against certified organic and nontransgenic seed farmers who come to possess more than 'trace amounts' of Monsanto's transgenic seed, even if it is not their fault," the plaintiffs claimed last year.
Between 1997 and April 2010, the organic producers' suit claims, Monsanto filed 144 lawsuits against farmers in at least 27 different states for alleged infringement of its transgenic seed patents and/or breach of its license to those patents.
More at the linkA court hearing in New York City at the end of this month will determine if a... more
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The fascist cabal known as the Bilderbergers, CFR, committee of 300 etc., is desperately and without hope trying to start WW3 and install a fascist world government in an attempt to pre-empt criminal investigations closing in on them from all sides. Their efforts will fail because the Pentagon and the agencies in the US (with the exception of homeland Gestapo) are preparing to remove them from power, according to CIA and other sources. For example, multiple investigations are closing in on alleged President Obama, including one for illegally declaring war on Libya. A count among US representatives show the votes necessary to impeach him are there, US law enforcement officials say. In addition, evidence of bribery and other forms of illegally tampering with government is being compiled against George Soros, among others. There is also a lot going on under and on the surface in Europe, Japan and the Middle East. I highly recommend you watch this first, as it will draw you directly into the mystery -- which flickered for the briefest moment in mainstream media, only to disappear into shuddering silence: http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/bizzareweird/43041-the-trillion-dollar-lawsuit-that-could-end-financial-tyrannyThe fascist cabal known as the Bilderbergers, CFR, committee of 300 etc., is... more
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STOCKTON, Calif. (CN) - A woman with a prosthetic leg sued Starbucks, claiming its employees wouldn't let her use a restroom to fix a loose screw unless she bought something first.STOCKTON, Calif. (CN) - A woman with a prosthetic leg sued Starbucks, claiming its... more
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