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...court settlement, which still needs court approval, allows Hooters to hire exclusively women as Hooters Girls, but requires a $3.75 million payment to seven plaintiffs, their lawyers and any other men who can prove they were denied jobs reserved for women. Hooters, which says it already employs 3,000 men in largely back-of-the-restaurant functions, agreed to consider men on an equal basis with women for more visible jobs, such as manager, bartender assistant and, naturally, busboy...
...qualification." For example, directors can specify women to play women's parts in plays or movies, and positions as guards in high-security prisons can preclude women. Notes Doug Huron, a leading labor lawyer in Washington: "Courts have made very few exceptions in sex-discrimination cases, but the Hooters settlement would appear...
...first time the industry had settled a suit brought by individuals. The plaintiffs expressed satisfaction. The industry said common sense had prevailed and that the settlement was in line with the comprehensive national deal currently under review. And not surprisingly, Stanley Rosenblatt said he felt ?very, very good about...
Most recently, Israeli authorities destroyed more than 25 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem based on the claim that they were built without a permit-virtually impossible for Palestinians to attain in the first place. Such action, along with the building of the settlement on Jabal Aba-Ghneim (Har Homa) and last September's opening of a tunnel underneath the Dome of the Rock, is clearly in violation of the Oslo peace accord's stipulation that the status of Jerusalem not be altered until final status negotiations. The authors, on the other hand, are concerned that The Crimson's reference to East...
...suddenly sounds doubtful that anybody's leaving the stage without a big piece of the President. Campbell et al said in a statement that they were "retained as litigation counsel, not as special settlement counsel... We intend to vigorously prepare it for trial...