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These Three Women Are Finding Solutions to Combat Discrimination Against Black Homeowners

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These Three Women Are Finding Solutions to Combat Discrimination Against Black Homeowners. The home appraisal industry is plagued by a lack of diversity, and that misrepresentation has led to decades of racial discrimination and a widening affordability gap which these three female appraisers are working to resolve.

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Eichler Homes: Trademark in Architecture, Neighborhood Integration

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Born to German Jewish immigrants, Eichler was sensitive to the common practices housing discrimination and believed if a buyer was qualified, there was no reason not to sell them a home. Joseph Eichler’s name is synonymous with the stylish, midcentury homes that his development company brought to the suburbs of California.

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Carpenter's lawsuit alleges gender-based firing

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A New York-based construction firm faces a lawsuit claiming it discriminated against women.

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Women in Construction – As Told By Women

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Tamara Rivera, a former carpenter with 24 years of experience and now a council representative for the New York City Council of Carpenters, says that unions have an effect on the types of jobs women are offered: “Women experience construction very differently on the non-union versus the union side. About unions….

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#85:  Who Decides Arbitrability?

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New York Life Insurance Company , 2019 DNH 190, No. Henry Schein has left courts with little wiggle room to deny a motion to dismiss founded on a valid delegation clause, but our own federal court has been among the first to start wiggling. In Bossé v. 19-cv-016-SM (Nov.

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Construction Law in North Carolina: Effective communications

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Never put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want to see on the TMZ report, the Wall Street Journal, or the New York Times. Turns out, she was pregnant, and she decided to assert that she was effectively an employee and we were discriminating against her because of her pregnancy.

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Frail coronavirus patients may be denied critical care under NHS ‘scale’ system designed to free up ICU beds for those most likely to recover

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It does not discriminate against age, but it does weigh up underlying conditions and overall health. . ‘A simple ‘age cut-off’ policy would be unlawful as it would constitute direct age discrimination. The scoring system was considered in a piece of draft guidance which has now been scrapped, NHS sources say. .

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