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Court Says Employer Has Burden Under Title VII To Attempt Accommodation
In EEOC v. Texas Hydraulics, Inc., (ED TN, April 16, 2008), a Tennessee federal district court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment in a Title VII religious discrimination lawsuit...

Division of Human Rights $25,000 award for refusing to assign employee to light duty because of a temporary disability reduced by Appellate Division
Division of Human Rights? $25,000 award for refusing to assign employee to light duty because of a temporary disability reduced by Appellate DivisionMatter of Iroquois Nursing Home, Inc...

Colorado Company Faces Dispute Over Ramadan Accommodation For Workers
In Greeley, Colorado, JBS Swift & Co. finds itself in the middle of protests regarding the appropriate accommodation of religious practices of its many Muslim employees-- mostly African refugees-- who are fasting during Ramadan...

Franklin Circuit Judge orders public defenders to stop refusing cases
A Franklin CountyCircuit Judge has ordered public defenders to stop refusing certain types of cases because of funding problems.  The temporary injunction, which was entered Friday afternoon by Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas D...

Third-Party and Attitudinal Benefits of ADA Accommodation
Elizabeth Emens (Columbia) has just posted on SSRN her article Integrating Accommodation (U. Pa. L. Rev.). Here's the abstract: Courts and agencies interpreting the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) generally assume that workplace accommodations benefit individual employees with disabilities and...

Austrac draft rules for providers of traveller accommodation: safety deposit boxes and currency exchange transactions
Austrac has released 2 sets of draft AML/CTF Rules relating to providers of traveller accommodation for public consultation: Safe deposit boxesThese draft AML/CTF Rules exempt providers of traveller accommodation, who provide in-room safes and safe deposit facilities to registered guests,from...

Whats a Home Loan Modification?
How to Qualify for a Home Loan Modification

Indianapolis
alleging the city's police are overly aggressive against the homeless in violation of the protection of free speech and unreasonable searches guaranteed in the US Constitution.