-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Thursday March 29 8:47 PM ET Court: Homosexuality Not Protected SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An appeals court ruled Thursday that federal civil rights laws do not protect homosexual workers harassed because of their sexual orientation. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites), upholding a similar decision in 1979, said the law protects workers against discrimination only on the basis of race, color, religion, gender or national origin. The U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) has never decided whether a worker discriminated against because of sexual orientation can sue under federal civil rights laws. Still, 12 states allow such suits under their own anti-discrimination rules. They are California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. The case decided Thursday involved a gay butler who worked in the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. He said that from 1994 to 1996 his all-male co-workers and supervisor subjected him to a hostile work environment, including crude and demeaning pranks targeting his homosexuality. The appeals court, ruling 2-1, upheld a 1997 lower-court ruling that said the man, Medina Rene, could not bring a federal case. Both courts concluded the harassment was because of his sexual orientation, not his gender. Although Nevada state laws allow such a suit, Rene did not sue in state court and the statute of limitations has now expired. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
