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LAWSUIT: 5 Female Rutgers Professors Sue University Over Equal Pay LAWSUIT: 5 Female Rutgers Professors Sue University Over Equal Pay
Lawsuit: 5 Female Rutgers Professors Sue University Over Equal Pay Five female Rutgers University professors are suing the institution say they make tens of thousands of dollars a year less than their male peers who are similarly qualified. The university told the NY Times they would not comment on the suit, however, the school in a statement said it was reviewing the way it paid professors and is committed to equal pay, despite being hampered by the pandemic. Filed Wednesday evening in Superior Court, the suit comes more than 50 years after former Justice Ruth Bader Gisnberg won a class action suit against the university for gender pay equality. All…

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by Jon Craig
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Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87
Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 It wasn't a stretch to call Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a rock star. A private interment service will be held at Arlington National Cemetery for the petite but fiery champion of gender equality, who died Friday in Washington, D.C. Her family was with Ginsburg, who died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer, the court said. She was 87. "Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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New NJ Civil Rights Director Rachel Wainer Apter Of Englewood Boasts Prestigious Law Record New NJ Civil Rights Director Rachel Wainer Apter Of Englewood Boasts Prestigious Law Record
New NJ Civil Rights Director Rachel Wainer Apter Of Englewood Boasts Prestigious Law Record Rachel Wainer Apter of Englewood already had a distinguished resume when New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal appointed her Thursday as the new director of the state Division on Civil Rights. Apter, 38, most recently has served as Grewal’s counsel on civil right and immigration – and led the New Jersey team that defeated a motion by Texas and seven other states to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). “This is a unique time for civil rights law in New Jersey,” Apter said. “While civil rights are under siege at the national level, the New Jersey legislature has been dram…

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by Jerry DeMarco