Employers beware: Your prohibition on hiring job applicants with arrest or conviction records could land you in trouble with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In a new guidance to employers, job applicants and its own investigators, the EEOC states ...

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Civil Rights Americans with Disabilities Act BOTTOM LINE: While police investigations are subject to Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodations provided by police to detained deaf man were reasonable under the Act due to the exigent circumstances involved in investigation of ...

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Welcome to the first Monday of spring and the roundup. Here are a few news items that do not involve a certain health care law. — Chinese attorneys must make loyalty oath. — Russian lawyers turn to European Court of Human Rights. — ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Civil-rights and business groups battled Wednesday over legislation that would require many restaurants, theaters and other entities in Maryland to make their websites accessible to the hearing- and visually-impaired. The rights organizations called the measure necessary in an ...

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Baltimore's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade danced, drummed and rolled through the boulevard named after the civil rights leader Monday afternoon. Marching bands and dancers from local high schools, politicians and community organizations were there to show off their moves and wave to the thousands of spectators who lined the streets.

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ANNAPOLIS — NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Tuesday that Maryland needs to abolish capital punishment to help lead the way in ending it in other states, and he believes the September execution of Troy Davis in Georgia last year has ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Administrative Law, LEOBR statute of limitations: After law enforcement officer knowingly made a material false statement during an investigation of prior misconduct, law enforcement agency had one year from the day the false statement came to ...

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Civil Rights Fair Housing Amendments Act BOTTOM LINE: During mediation of dispute between disabled tenant and building management company, management company could not have violated Maryland Code, Article 49B §22(a)(9) by holding mediation meeting in a wheelchair-inaccessible location because tenant ...

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the three wise men are being crowded out by atheists. Most of the Christmas nativity scenes that churches had placed in a Santa Monica coastal park for decades have been displaced by ...

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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Tuesday to fully enforce civil rights protections in next year’s elections amid a flurry of activity by states to redraw political boundaries and impose requirements that could reduce voting by minorities who enthusiastically ...

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