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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Transportation Security Administration said it will change they way its officers search passengers with body piercings after a Texas woman complained she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane. Mandi Hamlin, 37, had demanded an apology and her Los Angeles-based attorney sent a letter to the TSA this week requesting a civil rights investigation. Hamlin said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a TSA agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems....

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation. "I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Mandi Hamlin said at a news conference. "My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way." Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration agent after...

An attorney claims security agents gave a woman a pair of pliers and forced her to remove her nipple rings in order to board an airline flight. Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred issued a press statement Thursday making the allegation but she didn't provide details. A news conference was scheduled. Transportation Security Administration spokesman Dwayne Baird said he had not heard of the incident. Baird said the TSA has no specific policy about body jewelry but if it was big enough to sound an alarm, . . .

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two men who say they were insulted by actor-comedian Michael Richards during his racist rant at a comedy club want a personal apology and maybe some money, their lawyer said Friday. The men, Frank McBride and Kyle Doss, said they were part of a group of about 20 people who had gathered at West Hollywood's Laugh Factory to celebrate a friend's birthday. According to their attorney, Gloria Allred, they were ordering drinks when Richards berated them for interrupting his act.

The owner of an etiquette business who was handed a plastic bag supposedly containing feces in the hit movie "Borat" says she was told the filming would be used for a documentary in Belarus...

Jury Awards Cal. Man $18M for Harassment LOS ANGELES (AP) - A jury has ordered The Vons Companies Inc. to pay more than $18 million in damages to a former employee who claimed the supermarket chain fired him after he filed a report accusing a female supervisor of sexual harassment. The Simi Valley jury awarded more than $16 million in punitive damages to James Stevens on Friday, two days after ordering Vons to pay the one-time inventory clerk $1.7 million for economic loss and emotional distress, said attorney Gloria Allred, who represented Stevens. Stevens, a Ventura County resident who worked...

NEW YORK - Former Giants lineman Roy Simmons and celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred want an investigation into whether Simmons was denied access to the Super Bowl media center because he is gay and HIV positive. Simmons and Allred held a news conference outside NFL headquarters Thursday before delivering a letter to the league asking it to look into why Simmons wasn't granted a media pass. Simmons requested a credential for the center Feb. 2, three days before the Super Bowl. He also asked for two tickets for the game, which the Pittsburgh Steelers won 21-10 over the Seattle Seahawks, and...

New York, NY, May 10, 2005 - Court TV's recently renamed daytime schedule, Court TV News™ continued its hold on the #2 cable news spot for the second week in a row, behind only Fox News Channel. Keeping the momentum going, for the week of May 2, in the 9 am - 6 pm time period, Court TV led all other news networks, finishing #2 in HH ratings and in the key adult demographic, 18-49. During that period, Court TV featured its regular daily schedule which includes Court TV News' shows, Nancy Grace: Closing Arguments and Catherine Crier Live. Quipped...

Woman attacked by chimp speaks of the attack updated 03/05/05 BAKERSFIELD - A West Covina man critically attacked by a chimpanzee on earlier in the week continues to struggle for his life at Loma Linda University Medical Center. The attacked happened on Thursday morning at the Animal Haven Ranch near Havilah. On Saturday, his wife LaDonna Davis, who was also attacked, spoke to NBC’s Today Show about the trauma that changed her and her husband's lives forever. Davis and her husband St. James Davis were having a birthday party for their longtime pet chimpanzee Moe. When they were suddenly attacked...

A very good friend of mine send me an e-mail she received from a member of her family. It is one of those 'send this to everyone you know so they will be enlightened' type of messages. It lists numerous events over several decades where Muslim terrorists have attacked and killed innocent people. The point that the author of this piece is trying to make is that all these horrific events were caused by Muslim men ages 17-40 and that because of people like Gloria Allred, our hands are tied because we can no longer use racial profiiing to screen...

<p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign aides say they believed that a woman suing him for defamation really was a prostitute and drug addict when they suggested to reporters that she had a history of felony convictions, court documents in the case show.</p>

Woman Who Made Groping Allegations Sues Schwarzenegger A woman who accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of sexual harassment has now filed a defamation lawsuit against him. The suit claims Schwarzenegger's staff planted a false rumor that she was a convicted felon. In the final days of the campaign for governor, Rhonda Miller went public with an allegation that Schwarzenegger groped her during the time she worked as a stuntwoman on the films "True Lies" and "Terminator 2." Almost immediately, the media began reporting that Miller had been convicted of several serious crimes. The information on Miller was distributed by the Schwarzenegger...

DECEMBER 8--A Los Angeles woman who came forward during the California gubernatorial campaign to accuse Arnold Schwarzenegger of previous instances of sexual harassment today sued the Hollywood star, claiming that he, an aide, and his campaign smeared her as a convicted felon when she made her charges. In the below Los Angeles Superior Court complaint, former stuntwoman Rhonda Miller charges that the Schwarzenegger camp told reporters that she had an extensive rap sheet, a dirty trick meant to discount her credibility when it came to the harassment charges. Miller claims that the Schwarzenegger smear began an hour after she made...

<p>Shortly after she became the 16th woman to say Arnold Schwarzenegger had groped, fondled or otherwise sexually harried her, Rhonda Miller was gang raped by politics.</p> <p>Lawyer Gloria Allred tells the story this way. She got a call from Miller, a 53-year-old stunt double who worked on two of Schwarzenegger's films. Miller told Allred that Schwarzenegger had pulled up her shirt and snapped a photo of her breasts and had groped her during the filming of two of his movies.</p>

John and Ken are making good use of the 50,000 watts they are given from Mon-Fri on KFI in Los Angeles. Gloria Allred and her client Rhonda Miller have been outed for the second consecutive day. We heard the story yesterday that Miller, the woman who accused the next California governor of lifting up her shirt and snapping a picture of her boobs during filming of a movie, actually has been shown to be a liar about the event. Two witnesses came forward yesterday, one of whom actually took the picture of the willing Miller. Arnold was not even in...

Friday's Today featured a session with the woman who remembered being touched once by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1975, E. Laine Stockton, and feminist lawyer Gloria Allred, but Today's Katie Couric, in a very surprising question, favorably compared Schwarzenegger's reaction to charges of sexual impropriety with how Clinton reacted and how Democrats then said sexual activity didn't matter. Couric pressed California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein: "He has admitted to bad behavior, which is more than President Clinton did when he was faced with similar allegations, at least right away. Do you think Arnold Schwarzenegger has handled this well, and what about...

Al Rantel reported tonight on his show that Gloria Allred was a guest on MSNBC, either Hardball or Countdown. On the show she stated that there were "Six million reasons" to not vote for Arnold, the Jews that Hitler killed.

<p>California Republican Party Chairman Duf Sundheim crashed a Gov. Gray Davis campaign event Friday where he defended Arnold Schwarzenegger, criticized Davis' debate challenge to the actor -- and ended up in a confrontation with feminist activist attorney Gloria Allred.</p> <p>After an event with women supporters wrapped up, Sundheim began giving spin to reporters, accusing Davis of ignoring the public's business to raise money and defending Schwarzenegger's record with women.</p>

MODESTO, Calif. (Court TV) — Scott Peterson's lawyer and the attorney for his former mistress traded insults inside and outside a court hearing Thursday in a verbal brawl that included references to "Saturday Night Live" skits, a gazelle, the county fair and at least one declaration of war, but practically nothing about the crime which could land the accused double-murderer on death row. The face-off between media-savvy lawyers Mark Geragos and Gloria Allred, which the participants variously described as "a battle," "a game" and a buffalo hunt, ended with Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Al Girolami rejecting Geragos' charge that...

We speak now of Amber Frey, the mistress/girlfriend of Laci Petersons pig husband.People are muttering that they wont be startled, suprised, stunned, shocked if they hear she okays a Playboy spread.The sum bandied about as a could be, should be, would be offer is $500,000.00Ambers high cotten lawyer Gloria Allred has a high sucess rate, which also comes with high maintenance. Although Gloria's into publicity, she is even more into being highly paid.The mutters are: Amber didn't necessarily need a high profile lawyer just to be a witness. And that Amber is a masseuse and sometimes masseuses have something in...

A transsexual who was barred from enrolling at a school for beauticians in the US state of California has won a legal battle to be allowed to attend classes, the transsexual and her lawyers said Monday. The breakthrough came when the would-be beauty specialist, identified only as Sandy, reached a settlement with a chain of Los Angeles beauty schools after she sued the school for discrimination when it denied her admission. "Today, it's a big time for me," said Sandy, who was born a man but who is in the process of undergoing a sex change operation. She said she...

MIDI - HE AIN'T HEAVY, HE'S MY BROTHER (listed under "A") He often traded…jobs for sex in Arkansas…while Hillary knew…the story is true Now we learn…Dolly had given him a son Danny Williams…has a brother So Bobbi Ann…now you'll get that DNA and proof that you need…it was Billy Boy's seed You can sue him, dear…right now, call up Gloria Allred Yes, Danny Williams…has a brother He's had some sex that's…consensual…and some that was…forced physical His whole life…the way he talked about women was crude A scum of the first magnitude Do not let him near…your wife or your...