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    Quebec Rules Against Sikh Student Wearing Kirpan in School

    March 5, 2004

    Source: CBC News

    http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/03/05/canada/kirpan040305

    On March 5, 2004 the CBC News reported, "Security concerns are more important than a Sikh student's right to wear a ceremonial dagger to school, the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday. The ruling overturned a lower court judgment, which had affirmed the right of Gurbaj Singh Multani to wear his kirpan at l'Ecole Sainte-Catherine-Laboure. The Quebec government, the Marguerite-Bourgeoys...

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    Sikh Family to Appeal Decision to Ban Kirpan from Schools

    March 6, 2004

    Source: The Montreal Gazette

    http://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.asp?id=0982D950-4755-432D-AAD0-CD2579C53002

    On March 6, 2004 The Montreal Gazette reported, "Reversing a lower court decision Thursday, the Quebec Court of Appeal has outlawed the wearing of the kirpan, the Sikh ceremonial dagger, in schools. But the family of the boy at the centre of the controversy, 14-year-old Gurbaj Singh of LaSalle, isn't giving up. He and his...

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    Editorial: Kirpan Should be Allowed in Schools; Compromises Must be Made in Name of Religious Freedom

    March 10, 2004

    Source: Montreal Gazette

    http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/editorials/story.asp?id=FC7FDEC0-0880-40A3-A6E5-9B9EC2D58A6F

    On March 10, 2004 the Montreal Gazette ran an editorial about the recent ruling in which a Quebec court banned kirpans (the ceremonial Sikh daggers) from public schools. The editorial board wrote in defense of Sikhs' right to carry the kirpan, arguing, "If the Sikh ceremonial dagger...

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    Editorial: "Speculative Danger" Not Grounds for Denial of Religious Freedom

    March 9, 2004

    Source: The Globe and Mail

    http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040309/EKIRPAN09/Comment/Idx

    On March 9, 2004 The Globe and Mail ran an editorial on the recent Quebec court decision to ban kirpan, the Sikh ceremonial dagger, from public schools, arguing in favor of Sikh students' rights to wear kirpan. The editorial board wrote, "In saying that public safety takes precedence over religious freedom, Quebec's...

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    U.S. Investigates Garden Grove

    February 2, 2007

    Author: Deepa Bharath

    Source: Orange County Register

    http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/homepage/article_1562545.php

    GARDEN GROVE - The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation of the city in connection with a lawsuit filed last year by a Buddhist temple challenging the constitutionality of the city's zoning code, officials said today.

    City Attorney Thomas Nixon said he received a letter...

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    U.S. Investigates Garden Grove

    February 2, 2007

    Author: Deepa Bharath

    Source: Orange County Register

    http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/homepage/article_1562545.php

    GARDEN GROVE - The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation of the city in connection with a lawsuit filed last year by a Buddhist temple challenging the constitutionality of the city's zoning code, officials said today.

    City Attorney Thomas Nixon said he received a letter...

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    U.S. Investigates Garden Grove

    February 2, 2007

    Author: Deepa Bharath

    Source: Orange County Register

    http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/homepage/article_1562545.php

    GARDEN GROVE - The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation of the city in connection with a lawsuit filed last year by a Buddhist temple challenging the constitutionality of the city's zoning code, officials said today.

    City Attorney Thomas Nixon said he received a letter...

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    Court Upholds Wiccan-Boscov's Ruling

    February 15, 2007

    Author: JAMES MERRIWEATHER

    Source: The News Journal

    http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070215/NEWS/70215067

    DOVER -- A Superior Court judge has upheld a religious discrimination finding that requires Boscov’s to pay a $5,000 fine and $21,000 to two Christians, two Wiccans and a pagan.

    In May, the state Human Relations Commission found that the Reading, Pa.-based department store...

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    Muslim Tenants Win Discrimination Lawsuit in Arbitration

    March 16, 2007

    Author: ERIK ORTIZ

    Source: Orange County Register

    http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/anaheim/article_1621741.php

    An arbiter has decided that the Chaumont Villas apartment complex wrongly discriminated against six Muslim tenants based on their religion.

    The parties in the lawsuit, filed in September 2005, agreed to binding arbitration.

    In his decision on March 9, Orange County Arbiter Jay...

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