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The nation's lawmakers are beginning to listen: 19 states, including New Jersey, Colorado and Oregon, have passed some form of legislation that bars employers from discriminating against workers because of their life-style. (Despite Indiana's new smoker-protection law, Bone has not got her former job back, and...
Some folks just can't get along. There, in a grocery store in suburban Portland, Ore., was cashier Tom Morgan, more or less minding his own business. And there also was cashier Randy Maresh, who seemed to delight in tormenting Morgan. At length Morgan got fed up, hired a lawyer...
But what to think, for example, about the new area of litigious behavior that has blossomed and might be dubbed emotional tort law? Last March Julie Rems, 26, who is deaf, competed in the early rounds of a Miss America contest in Culver City, Calif. Though she was warned that...
The University of California has a docket of similar suits long enough to keep the courts busy for years. Ten university attorneys, in fact, work full time solely on cases involving employees. In one recent imbroglio, a U.C. Santa Cruz employee, citing emotional stress, sued a colleague and the university...
These and similar actions are fertilized by new rules of comparative negligence that allow a plaintiff to recover damages in a lawsuit even if he is partly at fault; this means, for example, that a drunk driver who demolishes an illegally parked car can claim some damages from the defendant...