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Racial Profiling? Harvard Reviews Campus Cops

September 12, 2008

By Ashley Phillips

Campus police at Harvard University are under scrutiny, as the Ivy League school this week launched a review of the department amid allegations of possible racial profiling of students and professors.

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Child labor charges – Iowa

JURIST] Iowa’s Attorney General’s Office [official website] announced [press release] on Tuesday that it has filed a complaint [PDF text] against meatpacking company Agriprocessors Inc. [corporate website] and its top officials for 9,311 child labor law violations. The alleged violations stem from the company’s employment of 32 minors, 25 under the age of 18 and 7 under the age of 16, in conditions prohibited under the state’s Child Labor statute [Iowa Code Ch. 92 text].

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10th Court tosses $17.5 million verdict in church bus crash that killed 7

A multimillion-dollar lawsuit judgment awarded to victims of a 2003 bus crash near Hewitt that killed seven people is up in the air after a ruling by Waco’s 10th Court of Appeals.

Three years ago, a McLennan County jury said victims of the crash should get $17.5 million because the bus was defective since it had no seat belts.
Thirty-four members of Memorial Baptist Church in Temple were aboard the bus, headed to Dallas for a Christian music concert on Valentine’s Day 2003. The bus driver lost control in rainy conditions near Hewitt, crossed the median and crashed into a southbound Chevrolet Suburban.
Seven people were killed, including five on the bus and two in the Suburban. Others were injured.

The suit was brought by 19 bus passengers and their family members against Motor Coach Industries, an Illinois-based company that assembled the bus.
In a majority opinion issued Wednesday, however, the 10th Court found that the trial court erred by not having the jury consider whether the driver of the bus and the charter company that owned it should share some of the blame for the crash. If that had happened, Motor Coach may not have been liable for the entire judgment, the court said.

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Fired Neiman Marcus worker can sue, court rules

A longtime Neiman Marcus employee in San Francisco who was fired in 2004 when painful ailments prevented her from working as a clothes-fitter can sue the retailer for discriminating on the basis of disability and her Middle East origin, a state appeals court has ruled.

In a decision made public Thursday, the First District Court of Appeal said Forough Nadaf-Rahrov can try to persuade a jury that Neiman Marcus failed to accommodate her disability by offering her a clerical or sales job when she could no longer do the bending and kneeling required for her previous work.

The court also said Nadaf-Rahrov, an Iranian-American, may be able to prove ethnic discrimination based on evidence that the store fired two other Iranian employees shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, but has provided new jobs to two employees with disabilities who are not Middle Eastern.

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FDA: Infant formula from China tainted by chemical

Tainted infant formula from China may be on sale at ethnic groceries in this country, even though it is not approved for importation, federal officials warned on Thursday.
However, the Food and Drug Administration stressed that the domestic supply of infant formula is safe.

FDA officials are urging U.S. consumers to avoid all infant formula from China, after several brands sold in that country came under suspicion of being contaminated with melamine, a chemical used in plastics. Officials said there have been reports from China of babies developing kidney stones as a result. There have been no reports of illnesses in the U.S.

“We’re concerned that there may be some infant formula that may have gotten into the United States illegally and may be on the ethnic market,” said Janice Oliver, deputy director of the FDA’s food safety program. “No infant formula from China should be entering the United States, but in the past we have found it on at least one occasion.”

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