Gender Issues
JACKSON, Miss. - Another teenage lesbian is suing a rural Mississippi school district, this time over a policy banning young women from wearing tuxedos in senior yearbook portraits.
HOUSTON - The family of a southeast Texas firefighter killed in a July 4 blaze has sued to void his marriage to his transgender widow and prevent her from getting his death benefits because she was born a man and Texas doesn't recognize same-sex marriages.
LOS ANGELES - A Latino civil rights group says the employees of an international gym chain suffered racial and gender discrimination at its gyms around California.
NEW YORK - The New York City jury that found drug company Novartis AG discriminated against women has awarded $250 million in punitive damages.
NEW YORK - A lawyer has urged a New York City jury that found Novartis discriminated against women to make the drug company pay hundreds of millions in punitive damages.
