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Stereotyping dress codes in tatters; new California statute says that businesses may not keep women from wearing trousers to work

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Employers should make sure their dress and grooming codes are based on what is necessary to do a job rather than on stereotypes about how the sexes should look. If case law is any guide, codes based on demeaning stereotypes would not withstand Title VII scrutiny. A California law in this area will take effect on Jan 1, 1995, forbidding dress codes which allow men but not women to wear pants.

Standards, Clothing and dress, Clothing, Businesswomen

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Love, battery and the statute of limitations; Hedda Nussbaum charges her ex-lover beat her for a decade. Was she insane, or just in love?

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Hedda Nussbaum has sued her former lover and batterer Joel Steinberg. Nussbaum is asking that New York's one-year statute of limitations for battery be tolled so that she can file this suit, alleging that Steinberg's mistreatment left her unable to function in society and to sue in a timely manner. Nussbaum's lawyer, is New York's Betty Levinson, a domestic violence specialist.

Cases, Abused women, Limitation of actions, Statute of limitations, Battered woman syndrome (Law), Battered person syndrome, Nussbaum, Hedda

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1990 statute looks to foreign investors

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The Immigration Act of 1990 sets aside 10,000 visas above quota limitations for foreign investors and their families. Immigrating entrepreneurs must invest at least $1 million; however, a lower figure is allowed for those investing in economically depressed areas. Initial response has been disappointing, but some administrative problems have slowed the application process.

Economic aspects, Emigration and immigration, Investors, Emigration and immigration law, Immigration law

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