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   hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk to hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com   
   Re: "first new station in decades"   
   24 Sep 15 17:45:13   
   
   On 24.09.15 16:25, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 10:44:48 AM UTC-4, Stephen Sprunk wrote:   
   >   
   >> To an extent, it doesn't matter since courts are not allowed to even   
   >> accept an employment discrimination case until the EEOC agrees, and they   
   >> reject the vast majority of claims.  OTOH, if the EEOC allows a case to   
   >> move forward, there's a high likelihood of winning--and the defendant   
   >> will usually try to settle.   
   >   
   > Some places have their own discrimination boards; Philadelphia has a Human   
   Relations Commission that pre-dates Federal stuff.   
   >   
      
   I have heard that Ontario has these HRCs, though they have been likened   
   to kangaroo courts run in many cases by sycophants, who lack the   
   slightest legal training.   
      
   Think Inqusition.   
      
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