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Wednesday morning a Los Angeles County jury decided against awarding damages to NBA great Elgin Baylor, rejecting his lawsuit against the Clippers for unlawful termination based on age discrimination.
By a 12-0 vote, the seven-man, five-woman jury informed Judge Kenneth R. Freeman that neither the team nor owner Donald T. Sterling or President Andy Roeser presided over a hostile workplace in which alleged harassment occurred.
Baylor, 76, the Clippers’ 22-year head of player personnel as general manager and executive vice president, was asking for nearly $2 million in economic and mental-distress damages over his 2008 departure from the team.
Are you discriminated because of your age, when applying for a job, please call us and let us know your experiences. Baby Boomers are being hit hard right now. By job reductions, lay offs, companies going out of business, now what?
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with a solution that benefits all.
A judge is ordering Wells Fargo Bank to pay customers $203 million for overdraft fees.
According to reports, the bank has been manipulating accounts to make customers pay for unwarranted overdraft fees.
The bank has been in some trouble for its deceptive practices for years, including accused loan
discrimination against Blacks.
San Francisco U.S. District Judge William Alsup has also ordered the bank stop its deceptive practice of charging excess overdraft fees.
Wells Fargo will appeal the ruling.
The case is Gutierrez v. Wells Fargo
07-05923, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).