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The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits, in part, making laws that infringe on the freedom of speech and religion. Recently, in 2006, the First Amendment rights of a fellow blogger were placed in jeopardy. A blogger, Mr. Nickolas, who writes on Kentucky news and polictics, in one article criticized the former Governor Ernie Fletcher. This article was sited by a New York Times article which was discussing Mr. Fletcher's indictment on charges of political corruption. The next day, the state reconfigured its web capabilities and put in software that filtered and blocked all access to blogs on state computers. Mr. Nickolas sued, claiming his First Amendments rights were being violated and that it was unconstitutional to block access to his blogs when there were other sites that reported the exact same information but they were not blocked as well. He felt that his free speech was being targeted. The case eventually settled in 2008 and Mr. Nickolas won. The writer of this article also goes on to show an example of when a state was able to block certain content without violating First Amendment rights. If you have had a similar situation at work, you should contact a discrimination lawyer like Andrew S. Alitowski to discuss your case.

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Religious discrimination unfortunately takes place every day all throughout the country. For example, recently in Washington, DC, a young high school track and field star who is of the Muslim faith was told that she had to remove her running outfit in that it consisted of a head covering that was not allowed per the track and field rules. The young girl, did not compete in the event and is suing the event for interfering with her religious beliefs.

In Seatle, Washington recently a young woman was working at a Best Western where she had been wearing a scarf, called a hijab, for religious reasons. Her boss told her that the scarf was not part of the new uniforms and she had to take it off. The young woman said she would not, that it was her religious freedom to wear it. Her boss disagreed and said you either take it off or you are going to be fired. She did not take it off and she was fired. She has since sued in Federal Court for religious discrimination and the case is still pending.

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