Said an amendment to the Colorado constitution that banned sexual orientation as a protected class was unconstitutional.
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They have been urging states to give legal rights to workers who do not already fit into a protected class based on race, gender or national origin.
The city said that under a federal civil rights law known as Title VII, employers must ban actions such as promotion tests that would have a "disparate impact" on a protected class, such as a specified race or gender.
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Though New Jersey recently passed a measure that outlaws such job ads, and New York and Michigan may pass similar laws, the Times points out that employers can easily discriminate against unemployed workers because jobless applicants are not a protected class.
So from the start, my concern was making sure that we had a tax code that was fair and that protected the middle class, and my biggest priority was making sure that middle-class taxes did not go up.
One negotiator, who wanted the industry protected from class-action suits, kicked over a chair in frustration.
Hopefully, Congress will agree upon a lower estate tax rate and a higher exemption so middle-class income and other taxpayers are more protected.
Meanwhile, it already faces a class-action lawsuit from angry users who argue it should have protected their data more carefully.
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This inviolate "death and taxes" truth sustained me--a peace-loving granny, a tree-hugging liberal--through 64 years of protected, upper-middle-class subsistence.
The Lymington River Association (LRA) argued that the bigger W class ferries created a greater wash and were damaging the Lymington River with its protected mudflats and salt marshes, which are rich in bird and marine life.
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