City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations
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Chicago, IL 60623-2832
Recent News About City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations
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Six current judges have been reselected, and nine lawyers selected, by Cook County's elected circuit judges to serve as the county's newest associate judges.
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A Cook County judge has ordered a Chicago dentist to pay an ex-employee, who is a Muslim woman, and her attorneys a combined sum of nearly $30,000 in fines, fees and damages, after the judge found the Chicago Council on Human Relations was correct to find the dentist had improperly ordered her to remove her hijab head covering while at work.
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The Chicago Commission on Human Relations acted properly in awarding more than $68,000 in legal fees to a lesbian couple who had complained their building’s owners association had harassed and discriminated against them for being lesbians, a state appeals panel has ruled.
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A Chicago dentist is seeking a second, higher legal opinion as he tries to refute the claims of a former Muslim employee, who claims he discriminated against her by forbidding her from wearing her hijab at work. Dr. Dhiraj Sharma, owner of American Dental Associates, recently filed a petition for common law writ of certiorari in Cook County Circuit Court, asking the court to intervene in his dispute with the Chicago Commission on Human Relations.
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09A man is suing his attorney over claims he failed to properly represent him in a discrimination case.
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A man is suing his attorney for failing to properly represent him in a discrimination case.Daniel McCauley filed a lawsuit Oct. 30 in the Cook County Circuit Court against Robert A. Habib, citing legal malpractice.The plaintiff says he owns A Taste of Heaven, 5401 N. Clark St., and retained Habib as an attorney to represent him in a lawsuit filed by a former employee. McCauley says on April 14, 2006,
