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Article: Comp Appeal Board's defenders still unknown: Lawsuit alleges improperly it improperly fired four black women
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- January 31, 1999
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SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL
It is unclear who will be defending the Workers' Compensation
Appeal Board and Sandra Teets, its office manager, in a lawsuit
filed
by four African-American women.
Peggy Austin and three other women say Teets unfairly fired them
over the past 15 months, according to their suit filed in Kanawha
County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
The women allege Teets repeatedly called them "you people" and
pointed her finger while criticizing them for being "insolent."
Represented by Charleston lawyer Mike Ranson, the women also allege
Teets violated the West Virginia Human Rights Act.
Last week, Mike Shaw, a lawyer who is chairman of the Appeal
Board, also declined to comment on the ...