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According to a recently filed lawsuit, Utah state senator Sara Eubank, a women’s rights advocate, fired her employee Jacqueline Hedberg after alleging that Hedberg’s productivity had dropped drastically. The principal cause of Hedberg’s loss of productivity was that she hadn’t been able to recover emotionally from being raped in December 1992. Said a representative of the Utah National Organization for Women, “[The case] is a tough one for us.”
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A bill introduced in the Georgia legislature in January by Representative Doug Teper of Atlanta would require warnings in all hotel rooms that fornication, adultery, and sodomy are illegal in the state. The bill would also require that the warnings be not only in English but in braille and in “internationally recognized symbols,” which were not specified.
Taro the dog had his life sentence commuted in February; he was released from New Jersey’s Bergen County Jail and deported out of the state. Taro had been sentenced to die under the state’s “vicious dog” law, but appeals continued until Taro had spent more than 1,000 days behind bars in his climate-controlled kennel, costing state taxpayers more than $100,000.
