Did you miss the part where she wanted $50 million initially? The jury cut her request quite a bit, although still obscene.
Posted on 01/17/2019 4:10:20 PM PST by lowbridge
Gee, I had to work weekends and holidays on my job. Did it for a good many years until I got enough seniority to win a job that had weekends, and holidays off.
“...her intent was purely for greed...
Silly remark. The jury made the award, not her.
Not just odd. How does a hotel dishwasher have the money to file a lawsuit? Asking for a friend.
And 30 to 50% to her lawyer.
Unless she had unknown backing, I can only assume that the lawyer knew there was a good chance of winning.
“It is just beginning”?
Beginning of what? Some religious whackjobs not being able to get a job without Sunday hours and cope with the fact that not everyone goes to church on sundays or lives come to a halt because it is?
When I worked retail in college, my store got flooded at 1pm on Sunday when all the megachurches let out.
If a bunch of you are so high on no activity on Sunday, you had a funny way of showing it.
Even if she had something in writing don’t you think 21 million is absolutely ridiculous GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!!! These people are out to DESTROY business YET this jury I am sure have jobs to pay their bills!!!
She won’t get anywhere near that much. I’m not sure how it works, but someone else posted that there are ‘caps’ in the state and what she receives will be far, far less.
I’ve never been on a jury where someone was suing someone else; don’t know if juries are even informed about caps where they exist.
If you tell them that you won’t and they agree to that as a condition, then it is their bad. I worked at the Grand Ole Opry for a summer and made it clear when being hired I wasn’t working Sundays. They agreed, and I did have to remind the person who made the schedule once, but that was it.
If they agreed and accommodated initially, then it was fine for her to take the job and their problem when they changed.
On this one I agree!! I've seen such moral decline in families since they gave up worship and honoring God on Sunday. I grew up in the 40's where Sunday was set apart for worship and then family time in the afternoon around a Sunday dinner. WHat a loss to our country now.
I am not opposed to what you do on Sunday. I am opposed to you telling me what to do on Sunday. In fact I will not tolerate it and if you try I will sue you for $21 million and YOU WILL PAY ME. I am offended!!
Not mentioned here but on other articles it said she traded her Sunday shifts with others to meet her needs. If so, and they didn’t allow this, they targeted her.
In another article, it says she traded shifts. It also says the award is legally capped at $300k above damages.
"She later sued, claiming the hotel had violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which bars race, religious and gender discrimination by employers [??? emphasis added]."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Based on the information provided, this issue is another tangle of institutionally indoctrinated, politically correct interpretations of the Constitution imo. So please bear with the following analysis of this issue.
From related threads …
First, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should never have been signed into law imo. This is because a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified in United States v. Cruikshank that only federal and state governments, not ordinary citizens, are constitutionally obligated to respect constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens.
In fact, note that the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A), had previously clarified the following. The states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to make peacetime penal laws which is basically what the Civil Rights Act is imo.
"Our Constitution never conferred upon the Congress of the United States the power - sacred as life is, first as it is before all other rights which pertain to man on this side of the grave - to protect it in time of peace by the terrors of the penal code within organized states; and Congress has never attempted to do it. There never was a law upon the United States statute-book to punish the murderer for taking away in time of peace the life of the noblest, and the most unoffending, as well, of your citizens, within the limits of any State of the Union, The protection of the citizen in that respect was left to the respective States, and there the power is to-day [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See bottom half of third column.)
Bingham had made the above clarification to emphasize that Section 1 of 14A gave Congress new powers to make penal laws. However, such laws are limited to discouraging state actors, not private employers for example, from abridging constitutionally enumerated rights.
From the 14th Amendment:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Also, in stark contrast to the variety of race and sex-related protections of the Civil Rights Law, such laws probably helping to get career lawmakers reelected, the only race and sex-related issues that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect apply only to voting rights issues, evidenced by the 15th and 19th Amendments.
"Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.Section 2: The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added].”
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added]."
Consider that people shouldn't have to pay damages or be put in prison for breaking “federal” laws that states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the unconstitutionally big federal government the specific power to make, such laws actually based on state powers that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen from the states imo.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Regarding unconstitutional federal laws, note that Bingham’s clarification of no peacetime federal penal laws indicated not even laws for murder. So it is disturbing that federal penal laws for guns started appearing in the books in during the FDR Administration, FDR and Congress at the time infamous for making laws that blatantly overstepped the feds constitutionally limited powers.
Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control
Corrections, insights welcome.
Patriots need to remedy unconstitutionally big federal government by doing this. Patriots need to support PDJT by electing a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will promise not only to support PDJT's vision for MAGA, but will also promise to decide the fate of people in federal prison who shouldn't be there.
Some may cheer for a ‘religious justice” but I recall some soldiers wanting to arrest a cripple Jesus had healed because he picked up his pallet and carried it on a Sunday...Jesus had something to say to them about that.
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