Details of Proposed Multi-Million Dollar Settlement with Retail Giant Abercrombie & Fitch to be Revealed at Tuesday Press Conference.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- On Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004, attorneys and plaintiffs will announce the terms of a proposed settlement of the nationwide class action civil rights lawsuit that charged retail clothier Abercrombie & Fitch with discrimination against applicants and employees of color. The settlement is being submitted to the federal court for approval. The lawsuit, Gonzalez v. Abercrombie & Fitch, was originally filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco in June 2003 by MALDEF MALDEF Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund , the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund In 1940 the organization formerly known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and now called the NAACP launched the Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). Since its founding, the organization has been involved in more cases before the U.S. , Asian Pacific American Legal Center and the law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann, & Bernstein, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol . The suit was consolidated with other cases charging employment discrimination against women and people of color Noun 1. people of color - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important filed by the EEOC EEOC abbr. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC n abbr (US) (= Equal Employment Opportunities Commission) → comisión que investiga discriminación racial o sexual en el empleo and the law firm of Minami, Lew, & Tamaki, LLP., and the law firm of Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C.
EVENT SUMMARY
WHAT: Press conference announcing proposed settlement in Abercrombie
& Fitch employment discrimination lawsuit
WHO: Original named plaintiffs
Attorneys from MALDEF, NAACP LDF, APALC, EEOC, and the law
firm of Lieff, Cabraser, and Attorneys from Kohn, Swift &
Graf, P.C.
Interviews are available in Spanish, Korean and Cantonese
WHEN: Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004 - 11 a.m.
WHERE: MALDEF headquarters, 634 S. Spring St. (between 6th and
7th Streets)
Los Angeles, Calif. 90014
Attorneys and plaintiffs will also be available for interviews
in the San Francisco Bay Area
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