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Supreme Court Grapples With NASA Privacy Questions
Posted on 5 Oct 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) The Supreme Court seemed unwilling Tuesday to restrict the government's ability to investigate the people who want to work inside its installations in the post-9/11 world, despite concerns that federal officials could go too... Read More

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Supreme Court Says NASA Background Checks Can Continue
Posted on 19 Jan 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stop federal investigations into the private lives of people who want to work at government installations even those who don't have security clearances and don't work on secret... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , background checks , Employment Law , California , security , NASA , Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Privacy , Litigation , lawsuit

Accenture Sued For Alleged Discrimination Over Background Checks
Posted on 20 Apr 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK — Accenture, one of the largest management consulting firms in the world, conducts background checks that discriminate against African Americans and Latinos, a class action lawsuit filed in New York federal court on April 8 alleges. ... Read More

Tags: Ossai Miazad , background checks , Accenture LLP , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law , Outten & Golden LLP , Samuel R. Miller , Sarah Crawford , Civil Rights Act of 1964 , Litigation , U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , Audrey Wiggins , lawsuit , Roberto J. Arroyo , Adam T. Klein , EEOC

Federal EEOC Warned Census Bureau Of Likely Discrimination, Lawsuit Claims
Posted on 18 Aug 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - An amended complaint filed in a federal lawsuit alleges that the U.S. Census Bureau ignored a pointed, detailed warning by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that its screening process for hiring more than 1 million... Read More

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