Direct discrimination involves the imposition of disadvantages "based on" or "on account of" or "because of" membership in some salient social group.
Several recent case reports and two larger case series have suggested that FDG-PET is a very promising tool in the diagnosis of the infected kidney and liver cysts in ADPKD, probably superior to scintigraphy on account of its better spatial discrimination, particularly when combined with CT scanning [ 3, 14- 18].
Early drafts of the clause banned only discrimination "on account of race and colour".
The law would protect a black woman from employment discrimination on account of race, but not a white woman.
The history of United States immigration policy is, indeed, rife with discrimination on account of race, class and place (Week in Review, July 29).
The Voting Rights Act was aimed at combating discrimination "on account of race or color," which was the urgent problem of the time.
Two years ago, in University of Alabama v. Garrett, the court examined a separate provision of the Americans With Disabilities Act that protects state employees from discrimination on account of disability.
The right to vote is itself considered an aspect of state citizenship, subject to the constraints of the post-Civil War constitutional amendments that prohibit discrimination on account of race.
"No person should be subjected to unjust discrimination on account of their sexuality and this reform will help put an end to the harm these convictions can cause," Clark said.
In the opinion, Mr. Cooper declared that the 1973 law "simply does not reach decisions based on fear of contagion, whether reasonable or not," unless the fear was a pretext for discrimination on account of handicap.
27), which is intended for the protection of citizens of the United States in the enjoyment of certain rights, without discrimination on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, because, as has already been stated, it is nowhere alleged in these counts that the wrong contemplated against the rights of these citizens was on account of their race or color.
