Byears gets more game.Whether WNBA star Latasha Byears was cut from the Los Angeles Sparks last year for being a lesbian (which Byears claimed) or for assaulting another woman at a party (which the team alleged), we may never know. A settlement reached February 10 in a wrongful termination wrongful termination n. a right of an employee to sue his/her employer for damages (loss of wage and "fringe" benefits, and, if against "public policy," for punitive damages). To bring such a suit: a) the discharge of the employee must have been without "cause" and he/she had an express employment contract or an "implied" contract based on the circumstances of hiring; or b) there is a violation of statutory prohibitions against discrimination due to race, lawsuit brought by Byears prohibits either side from talking. But there is one thing we do know: The Washington Mystics don't care either way. The team signed the 32-year-old Byears, who helped the Sparks win WNBA titles in 2001 and 2002, on February 21. |
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