tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post44060451410956710..comments2024-03-25T03:20:57.659-04:00Comments on My Daily Struggles: What Am I Not Getting?My Daily Struggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-53040610452859497452011-05-03T08:40:09.576-04:002011-05-03T08:40:09.576-04:00So Mom and Pop, owners of the Mom and Pop Candy Sh...So Mom and Pop, owners of the Mom and Pop Candy Shop, spoke to a psychiatrist about their employee, Bill. They didn't know they weren't supposed to do that, just being a Mom and Pop who had an 8th grade education; they were not aware that a psychiatrist's failure to personally examine an individual renders the psychiatrist's opinion unreliable.<br /><br />In any event, regardless of the value of the psychiatrist's opinion, Mom and Pop decided Bill could become violent and resolved to terminate Bill, a black employee. Mom and Pop are not bad people who discriminate. They're just not too bright. <br /><br />Where did we see this argument before?<br /><br />William Hundley, Esq. of the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, who later served as Vernon Jordan's lawyer in the Starr Investigation of the Monica Lewinsky matter, tried to pull the same trick with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1991. The Fourth Circuit didn't buy it. But the D.C. Courts did in Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, D.C. Superior Court (1996). Akin Gump conned the D.C. Government, and I scored big time!<br /><br />Believe me, Akin Gump is no Mom and Pop operation; -- and sometimes Mom and Pop aren't even a mom and pop! <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1949495874" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2011/02/akin-gump-actions-of-lawyers-are-held.html" rel="nofollow">http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2011/02/akin-gump-actions-of-lawyers-are-held.html</a>My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.com