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What's in a Name? A Basis for Discrimination, Says 9th Circuit
Law.com ^ | July 26, 2005 | Justin Scheck

Posted on 07/26/2005 5:57:42 AM PDT by MikeJ75

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To: CivilWarguy

"Raghead" is a good nickname for any muslim coworker.


21 posted on 07/26/2005 6:52:02 AM PDT by ReadyNow
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To: MikeJ75

Eventually, businesses will only hire white males who have no rights to sue about anything because these frivolous lawsuits are destroying America's small businesses. Every minority and ethnic group member who files suit at the drop of a hat for any hint of OFFENDING behavior are telling employers that it is safer to hire those exactly like themselves to avoid said lawsuits. It's called cutting your nose off to spite your face.


22 posted on 07/26/2005 7:03:52 AM PDT by Surtur (Free Trade is NOT Fair Trade unless both economies are equivalent.)
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To: Bear_Slayer

When did [the "N" word] rise to the level of the "F" word?



It is WAY beyond the F word.

No one gets fired for letting the F word slip out.


23 posted on 07/26/2005 7:23:10 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Izzy Dunne
"It's a broadening of the application of pre-existing law," said Barbara Lawless, a partner with the plaintiff firm Lawless & Lawless. "Definitely, there's a trend of applying the law more liberally."

LOL. That is truly hilarious. Even better than Dewey, Cheatem and Howe.

24 posted on 07/26/2005 7:27:35 AM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: MikeJ75
Mamdouh El-Hakem

I think there are three judges on a Court of Appeals ... but however many, I'll bet none of them could pronounce this name correctly. I know I can't.

25 posted on 07/26/2005 7:29:12 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: speedy
There are a lot worse things than "Manny" that he could have called this guy.

"Unemployed" is one.

Employers who have to guess whether any particular decision is privately offensive to this or that supersensitive employee and may result in a business-bankrupting lawsuit will be less likely to hire him to begin with.

26 posted on 07/26/2005 7:31:41 AM PDT by JCEccles
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To: Fido969

I know, I know, I was just kidding because you walked into that one.


27 posted on 07/26/2005 7:33:21 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: linkinpunk
His quote came a few thousand years AFTER Solomon said the same thing

And neither of them intended the comment to be taken literally. They were both talking about reputation. So, actually, the quote is being used out of context.

28 posted on 07/26/2005 7:43:19 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg (There's picky, then there's REALLY picky)
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To: ReadyNow

My brother worked with a muslim with an unpronounceable name. His nickname was "Jock", short for "Camel Jockey". He liked the name so much he referred to himself by it -- right up to the time he stole fifty bucks from someone else's locker. Then they just called him "Gone".


29 posted on 07/26/2005 7:45:07 AM PDT by Dionysius (ACLU is the enemy)
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To: MEGoody
Good grief, seems like people look for reasons to be offended.

As I told a møøselimb former co-worker: "It's not the color of your skin that annoys me - it's the thinness!"

30 posted on 07/26/2005 7:50:44 AM PDT by null and void (Be vewwy vewwy qwiet, we're hunting wahabbits...)
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To: Izzy Dunne
The Law Offices of Lawless & Lawless
31 posted on 07/26/2005 7:52:22 AM PDT by Between the Lines (Be careful how you live your life, it may be the only gospel anyone reads.)
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To: Between the Lines

To he surprise of nobody, Therese Lawless, one of the 2 partners of Lawless & Lawless, is a BIGTIME contributor to the Democrat Party. Federal records show she contributed to the presidential campaigns of Howard Dean, John Edwards and Dick Gephardt, Barbara Boxer's senatorial campaign, and a host of other left-wing Democrats.


32 posted on 07/26/2005 9:40:37 AM PDT by CivilWarguy
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To: MikeJ75

I hope some former co-workers don't hear about this. At a place I used to work, there were three Arabs, two Mohammed's and an 'Abro'. Their nicknames were 'Mo', 'Mo2' and 'Eyebrow', respectively.


33 posted on 07/26/2005 9:48:53 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: Between the Lines

A further search shows that Theresa Lawless' husband, James Sturdevant, contributed to the presidential campaigns of Gephardt, Edwards and Kerry, the DNC Senatorial Committee, the DNC Congressional Committee, the Ohio Democrat Party ($10,000!), Dem Senators Bayh, Harry Reid, Feingold, Feinstein, Murray and a host of Dem Senate and Congressional candidates.


34 posted on 07/26/2005 9:49:36 AM PDT by CivilWarguy
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To: Beelzebubba

What is frustrating is that the F word is as common amongst women and children as it is amongst men.


35 posted on 07/26/2005 12:58:09 PM PDT by Bear_Slayer (DOC - 81mm Mortars, Wpns Co. 2/3 KMCAS 86-89)
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To: MikeJ75

Oh, oh! Bush is in trouble...

Nicknames are now verboten!


36 posted on 07/26/2005 7:22:50 PM PDT by Swordmaker (tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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