New York City Sued for Blocking Civil Rights Rally
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An Arab American organization and an anti-war group said on Friday they have sued New York City for blocking a huge civil rights rally in Central Park just before the start of the Republican National Convention.
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Anti-war activists planning a major demonstration on the eve of the Republican National Convention said Tuesday they will cancel a rally if they are denied permission to hold it in Central Park.
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Demonstrations and protests bubbled up around New York again Wednesday, as thousands of people formed a symbolic unemployment line extending 3 1/2 miles from Wall Street to within yards of the Republican National Convention.
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Several politicians and a representative of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York were at a City Hall rally demanding that federal immigration authorities hold off on a review of employment records at FreshDirect.
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Hundreds of civil rights protesters march through the US town of Jena - the centre of a race row case.
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Representatives of an Arab-American group and an antiwar group say they are urgently conferring with their attorneys on what steps to take after a federal judge turned down their request to gather in New York&#39;s Central Park and stage a
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A U.S. judge ruled a New York town's election system denies equal participation for Hispanics in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the landmark law associated with the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
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Twenty-three people filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court here, saying New York city officials violated their constitutional rights by orchestrating massive arrests and detentions to sweep up political dissenters during the Republican National Convention in August.
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The lawsuit against the financial services company founded by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg accused the company of discriminating against women.
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An organization representing groups protesting the US-led war in Iraq filed suit against New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for being denied access to the city's Central Park in late August during the Republican National Convention.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -The United Steelworkers of America said Tuesday it sued to block temporarily Cooper Tire &amp; Rubber&#39;s planned sale of four automotive products plants.
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By Eric Ferreri, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 24--DURHAM -- In a lawsuit, a Durham man is disputing a January decision by county commissioners that blocked a townhouse development off Farrington Road.
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A lawsuit is filed on behalf of bummed-out New York customers.
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NEW YORK, September 23  - A Mississippi resident has flied a lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores (WMT.NYS) alleging that the retail giant discriminates against African-Americans seeking jobs as truck drivers with the company.
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The city's decision to deny a permit to protesters for a rally on Central Park's Great Lawn on the weekend before the Republican National Convention is about preserving the lawn, not suppressing speech, lawyers for the city said in federal court Friday.
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A federal judge refused to force the city to allow an Arab-American group to rally on the Great Lawn in Central Park two days before the start of the Republican National Convention.
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A man has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly displaying hangman's nooses from the back of a pickup truck during a civil rights march last year in Jena, Louisiana.