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NJ Attorney General: First Amendment does not relieve schools of their obligation to respond to bias-based harassment that creates a hostile educational environment

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Ridgewood  NJ, attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Sundeep Iyer, Director of the Division on Civil Rights, have issued the statement below as students across the state in K-12 schools and on college and university campuses return to school:

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The Supreme Court Extends Civil Rights Act of 1964 Protections to LGBTQ

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Washington DC. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the key federal law prohibiting discrimination in the workplace protects gay, lesbian or transgender employees from being disciplined, fired or turned down for a job based on their sexual orientation.

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