The practice violated the Consumer Protection Act and Washington state laws against discrimination, according to the lawsuit.
Half of American LGBT workers hide their status for fear of discrimination, according to Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group.
EU Commission spokeswoman Annika Breithard emphasised that EU states were prohibited from any form of discrimination, according to the BBC.
And two former security supervisors, both black women, will soon file a suit alleging sexual and racial discrimination, according to a lawyer representing the women.
Women continue to struggle to reach the top echelons of academia due to discrimination, according to new research presented at the Royal Economic Society annual conference this week.
The former United States Fed Cup captain Zina Garrison is suing the United States Tennis Association for racial discrimination, according to legal documents filed in federal court Thursday.
"We are very worried about discrimination according to race or religion," said Marco Impagliazzo, president of the group, the Community of Sant'Egidio.
Nearly 9 in 10 black Americans say they face a lot of discrimination, according to a Public Religion Research Institute poll.
Two employees of the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs have filed harassment charges against the Institute with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, according to MCAD spokeswoman Jane Brayton.
Almost one in five older patients with a chronic disease reported experiencing health care discrimination, according the results of a large national survey analyzed by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
The methodology essentially consists of applying wavelet texture analysis to raw images, in order to compute a wavelet signature for each image, based on which their discrimination, according to the formation quality level, can be made.
