DOJ Orders Dearbornistan Public Schools to Fundamentally Transform
T-Shirt worn by Dearborn students at Edsel Ford High School to glorify 9/11.
The Department of Justice under Eric Holder has ordered a Detroit-area school, Crestwood School District in Dearborn Heights, which has a growing Arab population, to translate every communication – spoken and written – into Arabic, increase ESL – including teaching in Arabic, and they have to hire more Arab educators.
It will allow meaningful participation by students with limited English proficiency, the DOJ claims.
It will also limit assimilation, a goal of this administration.
“This is a great victory for the Arab-American community and its children to become contributing citizens in our country,” said Shereef Akeel, a Troy attorney who filed a federal complaint in 2011 on behalf of Hiam Brinjikji, a counselor in the school district who complained about the district’s neglect of Arab immigrant students.
CBS Corp. has reached a settlement to end a Black female former sports producer's lawsuit alleging she was fired in retaliation for filing a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to Tuesday filings in New York federal court.
Employee Was Fired Due to Perceived Disability, Federal Agency Charged
MINNEAPOLIS – Lake States Lumber, Inc., a company operating in Duluth, Minn., has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC’s suit, an employee who worked for Lake States Lumber, a manufacturer and wholesale distributor of lumber and wood products, took leave for heart surgery. After surgery, his doctors released him to return to work with no restrictions, but managers restricted his ability to work and assigned him to a different job. Nine days later, he was fired, the EEOC said.
Medical Transportation Company Fired Two Women Because They Were Pregnant, Federal Agency Charged
PHOENIX – A non-emergency medical transportation company with a call center located in Phoenix, Ariz., will pay $120,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC s lawsuit, LogistiCare Solutions, LLC, now doing business as ModivCare, fired two women because they were pregnant. The EEOC’s lawsuit charged that Tiffany Lewis and another pregnant woman were training to become customer service representatives. After less than one week in the training class, LogistiCare learned they were pregnant and fired them.
The son of migrant workers became California’s first Latino Supreme Court justice
UCLA School of Law Joshua Rich |
May 12, 2021
The loss of former California Supreme Court justice and UCLA School of Law professor Cruz Reynoso, who died on May 7 at age 90, has left the UCLA Law community saddened.
Members fondly recall a formidable but thoroughly humble and kind collaborator and mentor who rose from a childhood as the son of migrant workers to become California’s first Latino Supreme Court justice and then a treasured UCLA Law professor for 10 years in the 1990s.
“Cruz Reynoso was beloved by generations of UCLA Law students who benefited from his extensive practice and judicial experience,” says Professor Laura E. Gómez, a close colleague. “He inspired Latino students and young lawyers by sharing his personal story often punctuated with phrases and truisms in Spanish as one of 11 children whose parents migrated from Mexico to rural Orange County, where h