An investigator for the Rockland County Human Rights Commission in New York will be allowed a trial to determine if the county has an unconstitutional policy prohibiting employees from speaking out on controversial matters, even though he previously lost at trial in 2004 on his complaint of discrimination and retaliation. However, Judge Colleen McMahon rejected the motion for summary judgment in the current case, finding that Daniel Jean-Gilles had standing and that the case was not barred by res judicata.
December 22, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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An investigator for the Rockland County Human Rights Commission in New York will be allowed a trial to determine if the county has an unconstitutional policy prohibiting employees from speaking out on controversial matters.
Daniel Jean-Gilles claims he was denied promotion and punished for speaking out against a planned mall development and a new ferry landing, which he claimed would lead to increased housing prices that would drive the mostly working-class black community out of Nyack, N.Y.
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