On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:50:34 -0500, Dawn Kersula <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Our Vermont public accommodation law also had mothers complain to the Civil
>Rights Commission here in Vermont. The mom who left the airplane in
>Burlington was awarded some amount of money (we never learned what) after
>she felt compelled to leave the plane...
>
>And when we passed our working and pumping law this year, the gal writing
>the legislation asked us about what was the right way to have teeth in the
>law - apparently the Legislature asked her to add that. The fine is very
>nominal ($100, I think!) but the law was primarily to encourage employers
>and employees to talk, not to be punitive....
>
>Dawn Kersula in Vermont, who finds herself remarkably ignorant of these
>matters -- I don't know what "redress" means legally, for example!
>
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Just a correction here:

Emily Gillette, the mother in the Vermont/Delta Airlines case, has not
received any monetary award yet in that case.  That case is still being
litigated.

Yours,
Jake Marcus, J.D.  

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