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  • Jews Awarded Damages in California Hotel Case

    08/17/2012 5:37:04 PM PDT · by SJackson · 19 replies
    NY Times ^ | August 15, 2012 | MICHAEL CIEPLY
    SANTA MONICA, Calif. — A jury here put the total price tag for what it held to be an anti-Semitic episode at the Hotel Shangri-La at about $1.6 million on Thursday. The award includes about $1.2 million in compensatory damages and more than $400,000 in punitive damages. The compensatory award was disclosed in court late Wednesday after a week of deliberations in a case in which the proprietor, Tehmina Adaya, was accused of violating a California civil rights law by trying to evict a Jewish group in 2010. The punitive damages were awarded Thursday. The trial, which had been under...
  • Pakistani Owner of Swanky Santa Monica Hotel: "Get the [expletive] Jews out of my Pool"

    08/01/2012 9:00:36 AM PDT · by Milagros · 46 replies
    JewishPress ^ | July 31, 2012
    Pakistani Owner of Swanky Santa Monica Hotel: "Get the [expletive] Jews out of my Pool" By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus Published: July 30th, 2012 Latest update: July 31st, 2012 An upscale hotel on a Santa Monica, California, beach is an odd place to be singled out from a crowd and removed because you are Jewish, but that's what happened to 18 young professionals who are telling their story to a jury in a discrimination trial taking place in Santa Monica Superior Court this week. Ari Ryan is the grandson of a Ukranian Jew who lost most of his family in the...