Sex Discrimination

A former NAACP employee is suing the civil rights group for $250,000, claiming its executive director breached the terms of a sex discrimination settlement, the NAACP's attorney said Thursday. Mary Stansel of Washington, a former interim assistant to executive director Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., filed the lawsuit in Superior Court in the District of Columbia on June 30, said Abbey Hairston, attorney for the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People.

Faced with the possibility of paying multimillion-dollar damages, Lucky Stores settled a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by a former employee, attorneys said Wednesday. The settlement was reached late Tuesday night after Orange County Superior Court Judge William F. McDonald tentatively ruled that Robin Henry had been mistreated by the supermarket chain's administrators in Buena Park. The terms of the settlement were kept confidential by both sides.

One of four women lawyers in the Pasadena city attorney's office suing the city for sexual discrimination has settled for $75,000 plus a pay raise, officials confirmed Friday. The settlement with Assistant City Atty. Carolyn Y. Williams was approved by the Pasadena City Council on Monday and is much more than the $20,000 the city offered Williams in September. Williams attorney, Joe Hopkins, would not say how large a raise his client would receive but said it would be substantial.

A national spokeswoman for Hyundai Motor America testified Tuesday that a boss told her that she was underpaid and was denied a management job "partly because you're female." Taking the stand on the opening day of testimony in her lawsuit against the company, Debra M. Douglas described what she says was sex discrimination and sexual harassment during her six years at Hyundai Motor America. The Fountain Valley company serves as the national import headquarters for the Korean car maker.

A Japanese court awarded damages in a sexual discrimination case for the first time, giving $640,000 to 10 female workers. The women had sued the social insurance remuneration payment fund 10 years ago over its policy of promoting only males on the basis of length of service. The judge ruled that the government-affiliated agency had violated the constitution and the labor standards act. The agency said it may appeal.

Marianne Stanley, the USC women's basketball coach for four years, was denied reinstatement because she failed to provide a federal court judge with evidence of sex discrimination in her bitter contract negotiations with the school. The decision could be a serious blow to Stanley's federal suit against Athletic Director Mike Garrett and USC because Judge John G. Davies of U.S.

Marianne Stanley, who sued USC and Athletic Director Mike Garrett, alleging sex discrimination, was ordered reinstated to her job as the school's women's basketball coach by a judge Friday, pending another hearing. Stanley claimed in her $8-million lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, that she was promised a lucrative multiyear contract if she turned around the team's losing program. According to the lawsuit, she took the job four years ago at a salary of $60,000.

After a debate that was both serious and humorous, the Assembly on Thursday passed legislation prohibiting merchants from charging more money for goods or services based solely on a person's sex. The measure, AB 2418 by Assemblywoman Jackie Speier (D-Burlingame), was approved on a 44-31 vote and moves to the Senate, where it faces an uncertain fate.

In the second blow to UCLA's radiological sciences department in as many days, a jury has returned a $1.1 million sexual discrimination judgement against the department's former chairman and the University of California Board of Regents. The jury found for Dr. Antoinette Gomes, a tenured associate professor at UCLA, who alleged that Dr. Hooshang Kangarloo had prevented her promotion to full professor because she is a woman.