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15 Apr 2011, 11:23 am
To use a blatantly obvious example, a Christian employer might be unwilling to accommodate a Muslim employee's need to make a pilgrimage to Mecca because the Christian considers it unnecessary. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 6:44 am
But it is not “the mecca of baseball,” as my colleague Rachel Bernstein writes in her well wrought and researched series on the O’s home. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 8:41 am
But he criticized its decision to take up the case of an Illinois school teacher who, as reported in The Washington Post last week, wanted three weeks off for a pilgrimage to Mecca. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 8:49 am
A Muslim middle school teacher in a small Chicago suburb had been on the job for only nine months when she requested three weeks off so she could travel to Mecca for a pilgrimage. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 6:53 am
Department of Justice sues Illinois school district for denying Muslim teacher’s request for three-week Mecca-trip leave [WaPo] “California Assembly Says Complying with Government Standards Not Enough to Avoid Punitive Damages” [Cal Civil Justice] “Four Loko Suit Is an Example of Bogus Economic Loss Classes” [Russell Jackson] New Benjamin Barton book on lawyer-judge bias reviewed by Larry Ribstein [TotM, earlier] “Prolific Colorado Consumer… [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 6:58 pm
Today’s Washington Post spotlights a civil rights suit filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of a Muslim math teacher whose request for three weeks leave for a pilgrimage to Mecca was denied by her employer, a Chicago area... [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 3:51 am
The expansion of the regional shopping mall at Bellevue Square, the construction of Lincoln Square/Bellevue Place, and the new Bravern project all have contributed to Bellevue becoming a thriving shopping mecca for the "Eastside," a community known for its many famous upper end income residents. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 2:59 am
The main reason I had to come down was to see Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, the new $120-million spring training Mecca built by the Pima and Maricopa Indians for the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 10:14 pm
About two years ago the local NAACP president warned Spokane’s leaders that more needed to be done by leaders to fight institutional racism or “Spokane and Coeur d’Alene one day will become a mecca for those who would use ropes to make nooses and spread hate literature. [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 3:40 am
CCNY established New York City as the college basketball mecca until Frank Hogan came along. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 6:30 am
On behalf of the New York State combat sports community, Standing 8 Court asks that New York State find a way to keep the Mecca of Boxing, Madison Square Garden, and boxing’s smaller houses of worship throughout New York, flush with events, fans, and Commission employees capable of making sure everything runs smoothly. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 2:43 am
The Board ruled that the Examining Attorney had met this burden.The record is replete with references to Napa being a food mecca, and we have already quoted many of the articles and websites in this opinion. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 8:37 pm
Doctors from the United Kingdom, scientists from Israel, academics from Argentina, and engineers from Japan have contributable skills, and aiding their entry to fill shortages in many critical areas will ensure America’s preeminent role as the intellectual and entrepreneurial mecca of the 21st century. [read post]
26 Feb 2011, 11:00 pm
The Battle for Blawg Review of the Year Like the movie business, with its Academy Awards, the business of blog reviewing is highly competitive. [read post]
26 Feb 2011, 11:00 pm
The Battle for Blawg Review of the Year Like the movie business, with its Academy Awards, the business of blog reviewing is highly competitive. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 7:16 pm
It is fascinating to me -- and possibly a wake-up call to folks concerned about loss of privacy due to digitization of health records -- that in this digital age, an age of lost laptops and stolen hard drives, an institution at the heart of Boston's identity as a medical Mecca is tripped up by carelessness with paper records. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 10:20 am
"This seems to be a mecca for the misplaced half-cast rock-and-rollers," Gardiner says. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 9:36 am
Art can be big business, and not just in cosmopolitan meccas like New York and Los Angeles. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 9:36 am
Art can be big business, and not just in cosmopolitan meccas like New York and Los Angeles. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 9:36 am
Art can be big business, and not just in cosmopolitan meccas like New York and Los Angeles. [read post]
