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Knox and sollecito. knox responded with a post on her blog saying i'm grateful that the italian supreme court has filed opinion and declared my innocence. i will now begin the rest of my life with one of my goals to help others who have been wrongfully accused. new york city's west indian parade marred by violence and governor cuomo's aide was shot in the head. a fourth person fatally stabbed. the police say the cuomo staffer carey gabay was caught in crossfire between two rival gangs. a muslim flight attendant is accusing her employer express jet, of discrimination. claiming she was suspe...

Four weeks later her religious accommodation was revoked by the airline and she was suspended. >> we are asking that her employment be reinstated. >> reporter: her lawyer says her client's sincerely held religious beliefs should not keep her from being a flight attendant. >> the law requires that the employer accommodate her beliefs. she is not required to search for another job. >> reporter: a spokesman for express jet declined to talk about the complaint but said, we embrace and respect the value of our all of our team members. we are an equal opportunity employer. cnn aviation analyst mary ...

Unreasonable burden on the job, and has the employer really as a first question made the efforts to reasonably accommodate in the first place? >> apparently according to her she says her boss told her you have your fellow flight attendant do the serving and one of the flight attendants said it's not fair i have to take on someone else's work. i was wondering what express jet had to say about this. we called them and got this statement. we respect and embrace the values of all of our team members. we are an equal opportunity employer with a long history of diversity in our work force." stay tun...

Customers so she wouldn't have to. all of it changed when a fellow employee complained. now stanley is filing the complaint with the eeoc excerting express jet is making her choose between her religion and her job. >> they are required by law to ensure there's a safe environment in place and that employees can practice their religious believes freely. of course, there are limitations that it must be reasonable. we know it's not an imposition on the airline because the airline itself made that suggestion and offered that accommodation. >> sounds familiar, right? we're joined by a practicing phy...

Co-workers or on customers to accommodate the religious objection, for example, to work out a deal with a co-worker where they serve the alcohol and they serve coffee, then in that case that's what the employer needs to do. if it is an undue hardship, the employer has to spend a lot of money or if this were the only flight attendant on the flight, pretty rare, but you could imagine that, in that case the employer wouldn't have to accommodate the request that way. it depends on the particular facts, that's the accommodation scheme congress set forth. >> i want to read the statement from express...