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Article: ADL Welcomes New Jersey Supreme Court Decision Condemning Anti-Semitism in the Workplace
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 31, 2008
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The Anti-Defamation League issued the following news release:
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court which held that anti-Semitic comments directed toward a police officer by co-workers and supervisors were improperly dismissed by a lower court as "mere teasing."
Calling the decision "a critical step forward in protecting Jewish workers in New Jersey," Lawrence Cooper, New Jersey Regional Board Chair, and Etzion Neuer, New Jersey Regional Director issued the following statement:
This decision reversed a very troubling intermediate appellate court ruling that coworkers and supervisors could get away with repeated anti-Semitic slurs ...