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That would only be a defense in the cases where it was a Spanish-speaking officer who was promoted. If the non-Spanish-speaking Hispanic was...
One of the things that might work for them, though, is the fact that the former chief did demote a bunch of assistant chiefs mostly because they...
I think their point was that the Hispanic officers who were promoted were bilingual while the one suing is not (though one might think that being...
Thanks so much. I admit that phrase wasn't in the original article. I used it to help clarify why they were suing.
Never used one. Never been offered one. Don't even know what it is.
That was the year I was born, so it's out of my personal memory wheelhouse. I thought one could get a student deferment, though.
Being in college straight out of high school, he would've gotten the student deferment, I'm sure.
DPD officers file civil rights suit against city 06:04 PM CDT on Tuesday, July 6, 2004 By REBECCA LOPEZ / WFAA-TV Six white police...
Homeowners, appraisers split on law 'Shared properties' measure stirs furor on multiple assessments 12:40 AM CDT on Tuesday, July 6, 2004...
Wouldn't mind seeing some of that, though the point still is that they're sure they have these demon customers, yet there's no way to know whether...
Yeah, but they're talking about customers they don't necesarily know for sure are unprofitable customers. When you've not been tracking all...
I guess it will eventually get to the point where any customer who simply comes in and spends all the money they have in their wallet without...
Really? Are you sure the clerk wasn't just hitting on you? I hadn't that happen to me yet, but I'm not giving my phone number out to Best Buy....
Well, first off, I think the whole "customer is always right" thing was never the norm at places like Best Buy. There are scammers and the...
Not to defend the guy or his ideas, but a person doesn't necessarily have to be a member of a certain segment of society to empathize with them or...
Well, if Democrats controlling the House and Senate from 1993-1995 were dogging him, too, maybe there was something up with him that needed to be...
I believe I am the only one allowed to quote Lyle Lovett songs on this BBS. :)
And that can be true even within the same family. My ex-wife's sister's kids are like that. Growing up, one kid was nearly perfectly behaved. One...
Rain knocks out my cable all the time. Actually, my cable goes out regularly without any weather interference. My satellite went out twice the...
You know, when a company is faced for the first time with something they had no idea would be a problem, I agree that a large verdict is...