Were proud to represent Melissa Zarda and bill moore, the executors of the zarda estate and we ask the court to construe and unite title vii with life as we live it and under the plain language and its interpretations. We ask that you find that Sexual Orientation discrimination is sex discrimination under title vii. Don zarda was a male. He was known as guy, though he was not traditionally feminine, but he was a great sky diver. When a customer complained that he identified himself as gay, he was fired and for that revelation, it was a violation of the statute because his sex, a male who was attracted to other men was a motivating factor in the adverse action. And in this case he identified as gay only because he was accused of being straight. And he was proud of being gay, and in the male workplace of the skydiving community, jokes were often made that loose end the tension of the experience and jokes were often sexual. Is his claim that is he alleging that he was fired because he was
Each side has been assigned 30 minutes, 10 minutes per person. Well hear from mr. Antolito. Good amp, your hor nor. Id like to introduce my cocounsel who worked with me on this case. Were proud to represent Melissa Zarda and bill moore, the executors of they have zarda estate. We ask the court to construe title 7 with life as we live it and under the plain language in its interpretations. We ask that you find that Sexual Orientation discrimination is sex discrimination under title 7 00. Don zarda was a male. He was known as gay though he was not traditionally feminine. He was a great sky diver. When a customer complained that he identified himself as gay, he was fired. And for that revelation, a violation of statute because his sex, a male who is attracted to other men, was a motivating factor in the adverse action. And in this case, he identified as gay only because he was accused of being straight. And he was proud of being gay and in the male workplace of the sky diving community, j
This is steve bergstein, my cocounsel who worked with me on this case. Represent theo executors of these are to estate. With life as we live it under the plain language of its interpretations. We ask that you find that Sexual Orientation discrimination is under tile 7. Don zarda was a male. He was known as gay though he efiminate. When he identified himself as gay, he was fired. For that revelation, it was violation of the statute because his sex, a male, who was attracted to other men was a motivating factor in the adverse ction. In this case, he identified as gay only because he was accused of being straight. And he was proud of being gay and in the workplace of the skydiving community, jokes were jokes were often sexualle is he claiming that he was fired because he was gay or that e disclosed that he was gay. It is all part of the puzz. He was known to be gay. Because he came out as gay to a customer, he was discriminated against because of that. That i dentification was a sex discr
News because it is happening in Mercer County where there is a very heavy Police Presence, at apartment he will bees a popular area lets get out to steve keeley at the scene in lawrenceville with what we are learning right now , steve . Reporter well, best known landmark is where we are, and thinks the quakerbridge mall were in the macys parking lot all deck out for christmas with the big lit tree right there. We will spin back around right across the parking lot where you often see the chain restaurants, apple bees, this is back of the applebees where you can see headlights to the left of the restaurant. Those are the police cars that have the front entrance blocked, on the other side is Dunkin Donuts and they share the same driveway this is roped off completely around, that is route one traffic you see, right there in the background behind the police cars. Now this applebees is opened until 1 00 a. M. On weeknights and we got the tip call into our news room, that there was some kind
Coverage. The protest at Civic Center Park was not the first one of the day on the uc berkeely campus. And mostly peaceful kron 4s dan kerman is there for us live tonight with more. Natsthe greatest threat to free speech, the greatest threat comes from right wing forces, they will use violence against those who wish to speak and assemble freely. A noontime rally at uc berkeley was in part nostalgic no violence this time, just students with the International Socialist organization defending the rights of immigrants and the right to free speech this in the wake of the universitys cancellation of a speech by right wing commentator ann coulter. Sot mukund rathi International Socialist organization 2938my feeling is the university should not stop speakers from coming to campus and the role we as students should play those who oppose ann coulter is that we should protest. Natslet me tell you about First Amendment rightsas with more traditional protests at cal, there were competing megaphones