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Plaintiffs in La. suit say Exxon ‘reckless’ with worker safety

March 2, 2010

Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. energy company, showed “reckless and reprehensible” behavior by failing to protect workers from dangerous radioactive material in used oil-drilling pipes, a lawyer for 16 men told a Louisiana jury.

 

“Exxon recklessly put profits above workers’ safety,” Frank Buck told jurors in Gretna, Louisiana, today in his closing argument at the end of a five-week trial.

 

Buck told jurors they should award more than $17 million to a group of 16 pipe workers who sued Exxon, claiming they were exposed to high levels of radium in the residue, or “scale,” that built up inside the pipes and now fear they may develop cancer

 

Read Article:  Chron.Com

 

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Lawsuit by Moroccan-American Muslim Accuses Police of Bias in Hiring

As the New York Police Department has initiated and expanded counterterrorism efforts in foreign countries over the last several years, it has also aggressively tried to recruit speakers of Arabic and other languages of countries where Islam holds sway

 

But a Moroccan immigrant who applied to become a police officer as a result of those efforts is suing the department, charging that he was not hired because he was a Muslim and was born outside the United States.

 

Read Article:  The New York Times

 

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Lawsuit: COM discriminated against former worker

TEXAS CITY — In a lawsuit laced with lurid accusations, a former College of the Mainland employee is suing the school, claiming discrimination and that sex factored in her employment.

Sandra Brewer, an African-American terminated from the college in 2008, claims in the lawsuit filed by attorney Anthony P. Griffin that she was not hired after applying for seven full-time jobs.

Brewer also brought to the institution’s attention a two-year pattern of sexual harassment, the lawsuit claims.

 

Read Article:  The Daily News.Com  

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Agree with state on suit alleging improper strip searches, arrests

The NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union have reached an agreement with the state on a nearly four-year-old lawsuit alleging improper strip searches and detention of innocent people at the state-run city jail, part of a broader suit that targeted the city’s high number of arrests.

The suit was filed in 2006 on behalf of 14 people, who alleged their arrests indicated a broad pattern of abuse in which they say thousands of people were routinely arrested and in turn held for hours without charges and subject to “filthy and overcrowded” conditions at Central Booking. The suit also incorporated a separate class-action lawsuit targeting strip-search at the city jail.

 

Read Article:  The Baltimore Sun  

 

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Lawsuit alleges DCF and YMCA sent girl into sexually abusive situation

The first time the woman took her adoptive daughter to the dentist, an assistant asked if the girl had been sexually assaulted. “She just asked that because of how she reacted toward him,” the girl’s mother said. “If someone that’s never been around her (noticed that) the first time they met her — without me ever saying anything to them — how could the counselors and the caseworkers and anybody else miss that?”

 

The abuse, which occurred when the girl was 7 years old and in foster care, could have been prevented and should have been recognized sooner, according to a suit filed in Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court that accuses the Department of Children and Families and the Sarasota YMCA of negligence and oversight failures — allegations that the DCF flatly denies.

 

Read Article:  Tampa Bay.Com

 

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