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While her original complaint asked for as much as $450,000 in damages, an Australian federal court ruled last week that Rebecca Richardson, a former employee of computer giant Oracle, would be awarded only $18,000 after proving she had been sexually harassed and discriminated against in the workplace. According to Richardson, the harassment ...

Yahoo Defending No-Work-At-Home Polic

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Jurors hugged an Odessa, Texas woman who had been subjected to extensive sex discrimination in her job as a UPS driver after delivering a $600,000 verdict in her favor.  Plaintiff Amber Ibarra was awarded $300,000 in compensatory damages and $300,000 in punitive damages after United Parcel Service failed to prevent sex discrimination ...

North Dakota Woman Wins $3.35M in Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit

Johnson & Johnson, manufacturers of a Gyncare Prolift vaginal mesh that is said to have had significant side effects for large numbers of women, have been ordered to pay $3.35M to a woman who was so badly hurt by the mesh that she required 18 total surgeries. In spite of having had a large number of surgeries to remove the mesh ...

Prom Dress Retailer Ordered To Pay Restitution

A dress shop in New Jersey that closed down weeks before prom season has been ordered by a judge to pay thousands of dollars in restitution to girls who paid deposits amounting to as much as 100 percent of the purchase price of their dresses. According to New Jersey Attorney General Jeffery S. Chiesa, Red Carpet, a dress shop in Wayne ...

Report: Climate Change and its Impact on Wildlife

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Henry Barbour: ‘Two Sides to Every Issue

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49ers Football Player Takes Aggressive Stance towards Gay Men

San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver made inflammatory comments concerning gays in professional football just a few days prior to the biggest game of his life. Shock jock and former Howard Stern sidekick, Artie Lange, revealed he had interviewed Culliver at media on Tuesday and aired a segment of the talk on his show that night ...

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