Woman s claim of firing over breastfeeding remains dismissed
KATHY McCORMACK, Associated Press
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) The New Hampshire Supreme Court was split 2-2 Friday over a woman s nearly nine-year battle to challenge her firing from the state Department of Health and Human Services over breastfeeding, meaning a lower court s decision to dismiss her case stands.
When the court heard the case in January 2020, it lacked a fifth member after its chief justice stepped down the previous summer. Former Attorney General Gordon MacDonald was sworn in as chief justice last week, well over a year after the case was argued.
obviously want to have the issue and not the solution. it is true they do a lot of stuff that people enjoy, shutting it down is painful. that is inescapable. the grand canyon this week, there were 2200 furloughed park employees living inside the park and they re starting to run out of food. the park is huge, they have no easy way to leave it. this week, st. mary s food bank had to truck in hundreds of boxes of food to hundreds of employees. we re talking about minimum wage workers, folks who count on the seasonal income from those areas. and once that is cut off, they had people at the door step this weekend up to 66,000 people or 20% of those eligible were kicked off the wic nutrition program in north carolina. the state department of health and human services said that some of our most vulnerable citizens, pregnant women and infants and children will be affected by the wic services due to the federal shutdown.
administration wants to make it as painful as possible, they obviously wants to have the issue and not the solution. it is true they do a lot of stuff that people enjoy, shutting it down is painful. that is inescapable. the grand canyon this week, there were 2200 furloughed park employees living inside the park and they re starting to run out of food. the park is huge, they have no easy way to leave it. this week, st. mary s food bank had to truck in hundreds of boxes of food to hundreds of employees. we re talking about minimum wage workers, folks who count on the seasonal income from those areas. and once that is cut off, they had people at the door step this weekend up to 66,000 people or 20% of those eligible were kicked off the wic nutrition program in north carolina. the state department of health
north carolina. the state department of health and human services said that some of our most vulnerable citizens, pregnant women and infants and children will be affected by the wic services due to the federal shutdown. and of course, at the same time they are throwing the food inspectors, there were four soldiers killed in afghanistan, and we re not going to receive the death benefits to which they re entitled. that was solved today. a private charity, fisher house, will step in and pay, including the 100,000 death benefit to each family. the charity will then be reimbursed had when the government opens again. of course, the republicans want to pin that on the president. john boehner saying it is disgraceful. even though defense secretary chuck hagel said the benefits were not there. the department warned congress the benefits would be cut off until unless it was specifically
okay, brian, her defense is what then? well, bill, there is no criminal culpability here. the d.a. will not press charges here. bill: will not? no, they will not be able to press charges because they haven t broken a law or facility. they re not licensed or regulated by the state department of health and human services. so they have not been subject to any regulation. they haven t violated any regulation. morally they have done something wrong. this was not an assisted living facility. this was not a residential care facility. this was a senior apartment complex. bill: it was independent living. you re right, she was not being assisted. meaning she did not have a nurse with her for a period of time or even 24 day period but why does that matter, assisted living versus independent living? because assisted living means that you signed up for 24 hour health care. that means you signed up to have a nurse near your elderly folks 24/7.