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MTA: No logo needed on religious head gear

Published: May 30, 2012 9:44 PM
By VERENA DOBNIK. The Associated Press  

New York transit workers belonging to the Sikh and Muslim faiths will be allowed to wear religious head coverings without a government agency logo after years of bitter legal battles that started after the 9/11 terror attacks.
A settlement between workers and New York City Transit, run by the state Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was announced yesterday.
"This was the back-of-the-bus solution," said Amardeep Singh, a Sikh-American community spokesman who compared the agency's dealings with the employees to the pre-civil rights practice of seating black Americans at the back of public buses.
The agency issued a policy in 2003 forcing employees who wore the traditional Sikh turbans or Muslim khimars, to work out of public view. Some were reassigned from bus routes to nonpublic jobs in depots.
The next year, workers were allowed to wear the head coverings in public -- but only with the MTA logo attached.
Singh's nonprofit Sikh Coalition represents five subway station agents and a train operator who joined four Muslim bus drivers to fight what was dubbed the "brand or segregate" policy.
Shayana Kadidal, an attorney at Manhattan's Center for Constitutional Rights, said it was "a calculated attempt" to hide certain workers "on the grounds that they 'look Muslim' and might alarm the public for that reason."
Among them was a subway train operator who became a 9/11 hero, for evacuating more than 800 people from the subway near the World Trade Center by maneuvering his train to safety after power was knocked out. Above, the towers were collapsing and dust filled the station.
"The MTA honored me for driving my train in reverse away from the towers on 9/11 and leading passengers to safety," said motorman Kevin Harrington. "I didn't have a corporate logo on my turban on 9/11."
The U.S. Justice Department brought its case under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, saying New York's transit officials had discriminated against workers.
The city agency faced separate lawsuits filed in federal court.
Harrington, who was brought up Catholic and converted to the Sikh religion, said the policy "was driven by fear. I am relieved that the policy of branding or segregating Sikh or Muslim workers is coming to an end."
In a statement released Wednesday, the MTA New York City Transit said the settlement "contains no finding of fault or liability."
The transit agency said it agrees "to modify the headwear portion of the NYCT uniform policy to permit employees in those titles to wear turbans, headscarves, and certain other forms of headwear that do not contain the standard NYCT-issued logo." But any head coverings must be blue -- the color of standard transit employee uniforms.

NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 is not only for Sikhs.
NY PML
§ 109. Supplementary regulatory powers of the commission.
Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the commission
through its rules and regulations or in allotting dates for racing,
simulcasting or in licensing race meetings at which pari-mutuel betting
is permitted shall be authorized to:
1. permit racing at which pari-mutuel betting is conducted on any or
all dates from the first day of January through the thirty-first day of
December, inclusive of Sundays but exclusive of December twenty-fifth,
Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday; and
2. fix minimum and maximum charges for admission at any race meeting.
* NB Effective October 1, 2012Won't the Sikh Coalition help see that Nassau OTB is open every day of the year without rereligious preference
Open On 1st Palm Sunday, Otb Rakes In $2m
BY JERRY BOSSERT DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Monday, April 14, 2003New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm Sunday.Since
1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race tracks
have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday and
Easter Sunday.While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its
betting parlors open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and
Wagering Board stating that it couldn't do so."We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's business is a simulcasting business."Bettors
responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on tracks from
around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and Gulfstream Park
in Florida.
You can't close Nassau OTB only on Roman Catholic holidays.

Jones Day high priced errand boys

who don't care that the State of New York closes Nassau OTB only on Roman Catholic Easter Sunday and Roman Catholic Palm Sunday in violation of the rights of New York State Bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3. Even Roman Catholics bet horses, sometimes before church.

NY PML Sec 105 soon to be Sec 109:
1. Is not constitutionally defensible.
2. Does not apply to Nassau OTB.
3. Is vague, indefinite and/or overly broad as the terms Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday do not define one and only one Sunday in 2012 etc. See the Gregorian and Julian Calendars.
4. NY PML Sec 105 soon to be Sec 109 violates the rights of New York State Bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3.

Jones Day, a bunch of high priced errand boys.

Open On 1st Palm Sunday, Otb Rakes In $2m

BY JERRY BOSSERT DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Monday, April 14, 2003

New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm Sunday.
Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday.
While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board stating that it couldn't do so.
"We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's business is a simulcasting business."
Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and Gulfstream Park in Florida.

* §  109.  Supplementary  regulatory   powers   of   the   commission.
  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  law,  the  commission
  through its rules and regulations or  in  allotting  dates  for  racing,
  simulcasting  or in licensing race meetings at which pari-mutuel betting
  is permitted shall be authorized to:
    1. permit racing at which pari-mutuel betting is conducted on  any  or
  all  dates from the first day of January through the thirty-first day of
  December, inclusive of Sundays but exclusive of  December  twenty-fifth,
  Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday; and
    2. fix minimum and maximum charges for admission at any race meeting.
    * NB Effective October 1, 2012

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take the Thomas Renker Esq. Freedom of Religion Legal Challenge

 Does Thomas Renker have answers to the following simple legal questions?
1. Does NY PML Sec 105 soon to be Sec. 109 apply to Nassau OTB where one or more of the Rockville Centre faithful work and/or bet?
2. Is NY PML Sec 105 soon to be Sec 109 violate the rights of Rockville Centre Bettors who do not share Thomas Renker's religious beliefs secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3?
3. Is NY PML Sec 105 soon to be Sec. 109 constitutionally defensible?
4. Is NY PML Sec 105 soon to be Sec 109 vague, indefinite and/or overly broad because the terms Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday do not define one and only one day in April 2012? See the Gregorian and Julian Calendars.


Lucky for Thomas Renker that these questions have not yet appeared on the New York Bar Examination?
Lawyers, nothing but errand boys.

The Archdiocese of Rockville Centre does not need Andrew Cuomo to enforce laws that violate the religious freedom of Rockville Centre bettors who do not go to church or do not wish to go to Church without putting there bets in at Nassau OTB before church.

§  109.  Supplementary  regulatory   powers   of   the   commission.
  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  law,  the  commission
  through its rules and regulations or  in  allotting  dates  for  racing,
  simulcasting  or in licensing race meetings at which pari-mutuel betting
  is permitted shall be authorized to:
    1. permit racing at which pari-mutuel betting is conducted on  any  or
  all  dates from the first day of January through the thirty-first day of
  December, inclusive of Sundays but exclusive of  December  twenty-fifth,
  Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday; and
    2. fix minimum and maximum charges for admission at any race meeting.
    * NB Effective October 1, 2012

Welcome Attorney Search Resources Attorney Registration E-Courts Contact Us	Attorney Detail as of 05/29/2012   Registration Number: 2119733     THOMAS G. RENKER THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ROCKVILLE CENTRE 50 N PARK AVE ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY 11570-9023 United States (516) 678-5800     Year Admitted in NY: 1987 Appellate Division Department of Admission: 2 Law School: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Registration Status: Currently registered Next Registration: Oct 2013 The Detail Report above contains information that has been provided by the attorney listed, with the exception of REGISTRATION STATUS, which is generated from the OCA database. Every effort is made to insure the information in the database is accurate and up-to-date. The good standing of an attorney and/or any information regarding disciplinary actions must be confirmed with the appropriate Appellate Division Department. Information on how to contact the Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Court in New York is available at www.nycourts.gov/courts. If the name of the attorney you are searching for does not appear, please try again with a different spelling. In addition, please be advised that attorneys listed in this database are listed by the name that corresponds to their name in the Appellate Division Admissions file. There are attorneys who currently use a name that differs from the name under which they were admitted. If you need additional information, please contact the NYS Office of Court Administration, Attorney Registration Unit at 212-428-2800. Open On 1st Palm Sunday, Otb Rakes In $2m BY JERRY BOSSERT DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Monday, April 14, 2003 New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm Sunday. Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board stating that it couldn't do so. "We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's business is a simulcasting business." Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and Gulfstream Park in Florida.
	www.NYCOURTS.gov § 109. Supplementary regulatory powers of the commission. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the commission through its rules and regulations or in allotting dates for racing, simulcasting or in licensing race meetings at which pari-mutuel betting is permitted shall be authorized to: 1. permit racing at which pari-mutuel betting is conducted on any or all dates from the first day of January through the thirty-first day of December, inclusive of Sundays but exclusive of December twenty-fifth, Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday; and 2. fix minimum and maximum charges for admission at any race meeting. * NB Effective October 1, 2012

The Roman Catholic Church continues its oppression of Greek believers,

Greek Bettors and the rest of us that believe in freedom of religion.
You simply can't have Cardinal Catholic Andrew Cuomo close Nassau OTB, a public benefit corporation, on his Easter Sunday and his Palm Sunday and not that of the members of the Eastern Orthodox Church who using a different calendar observe the holidays of the same name on different days. In some years the Gregorian and Julian Calendars do coincide.

NY PML Sec 105, now Sec. 109 violates the rights of New York State Bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3.
The statutes do not even apply to Nassau OTB. Just ask (if you have standing) Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for a free Formal or Informal Opinion.

If Nassau OTB employees do not want to work while they still have a job that pays time and half on Sunday, they are free to take vacation without giving a reason and go to Church or anyplace else that they might wish.

Teamsters Local 707, Kevin McCaffrey, Barry Yomtov, Laura Campione, et al. The Union that does not believe in the freedom of its Greek and/or betting members et al. secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3.

Editorial

The Politics of Religion

Published: May 27, 2012

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Thirteen Roman Catholic dioceses and some Catholic-related groups scattered lawsuits across a dozen federal courts last week claiming that President Obama was violating their religious freedom by including contraceptives in basic health care coverage for female employees. It was a dramatic stunt, full of indignation but built on air.

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Mr. Obama’s contraception-coverage mandate specifically exempts houses of worship. If he had ordered all other organizations affiliated with a religion to pay for their employees’ contraception coverage, that policy could probably be justified under Supreme Court precedent, including a 1990 opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia.

But that argument does not have to be made in court, because Mr. Obama very publicly backed down from his original position and gave those groups a way around the contraception-coverage requirement.

Under the Constitution, churches and other religious organizations have total freedom to preach that contraception is sinful and rail against Mr. Obama for making it more readily available. But the First Amendment is not a license for religious entities to impose their dogma on society through the law. The vast majority of Americans do not agree with the Roman Catholic Church’s anti-contraception stance, including most American Catholic women.

The First Amendment also does not exempt religious entities or individuals claiming a sincere religious objection from neutral laws of general applicability, a category the new contraception rule plainly fits. In 1990, Justice Scalia reminded us that making “the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land” would mean allowing “every citizen to become a law unto himself.”

In 1993, Congress required government actions that “substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion” to advance a compelling interest by the least restrictive means. The new contraceptive policy does that by promoting women’s health and autonomy.

And there was no violation of religious exercise to begin with. After religious groups protested, the administration put the burden on insurance companies to provide free contraceptive coverage to women who work for religiously affiliated employers like hospitals or universities — with no employer involvement.

This is a clear partisan play. The real threat to religious liberty comes from the effort to impose one church’s doctrine on everyone.

Danger Alert the remnants of NYC OTB have spread and to come back,

  Teamsters Local 858 represented NYC OTB Managers and Nassau OTB employees.

NYC OTB employees lost their jobs (except for Barrry Yomtov) when NYC OTB went bankrupt.

Teamsters Local 858 lost its compelled cash stream when NYC OTB went bankrupt.

Teamsters Local 858 merged with Local 707 to supply Local 707 with a cash infusion. Local 707's pension plan is on the US Dep't of Labor Critical list.

Barry Yomtov was given a position as Local 707 Business Agent.

Nassau OTB cashier Gloria Moran did obtain enough valid signatures to go to PERB to decertify the Union and replace it with something else.

Gloria Moran did meet with Teamsters Local 707 President Kevin McCaffrey AKA Deputy Village Mayor of Lindenhurst and negotiate a secret agreement in return for not using the signatures obtained to rid Nassau OTB employees of a union menace or......

There is little to no disclosure of what goes on with the Nassau OTB Union Teamsters Local 707 which takes money of working people in return for telling them that their employer is on the road to hell just like NYC OTB and Suffolk OTB.

Beware Teamsters Local 707. Worse than communists?

 

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and you'll be able to bet while Nassau OTB is closed on

Roman Catholic Palm Sunday and Roman Catholic Easter Sunday because Andrew Cuomo is in church .
NY PML Sec 109 and Sec 105 violating the rights of New York Bettors secured by NY Const. .Art. 1, Sec. 3.
NJ Public employees better see that the gambling revenue is used to fix the public pension system which is bankrupt. Gambling for public benefit run by the government because the public carries the costs.

Mark Mendel Esq. for Governor of NY and the formation of a Gambling Party to see that NY does the right thing. Andrew Cuomo is ready for export.

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.— New Jersey will defy a federal ban and let people bet on the outcomes of football, basketball and other games this fall, Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday.
Speaking at a news conference highlighting efforts to reinvigorate Atlantic City, Mr. Christie said the regulations his administration will issue next week make no attempt to overturn a 1992 federal law that limits sports betting to four states.
"We intend to go forward," the Republican governor said. "If someone wants to stop us, then let them try to stop us. We want to work with the casinos and horse racing industry to get it implemented.
"Am I expecting there may be legal action taken against us to try to prevent it? Yes," the governor said. "But I have every confidence we're going to be successful."
The U.S. Justice Department didn't immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
A federal law limits sports betting to four states that approved it by a 1991 deadline: Nevada, Delaware, Oregon and Montana.
—Associated Press

A version of this article appeared May 25, 2012, on page A18 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Christie to Press Plan For N.J. Sports Betting.

john sabini, the guy who doesn't care that there were two Easters Sundays

and two Palm Sundays in April 2012 when tracks were running all across the US that bettors wanted to bet at Nassau OTB. Sabini must think he is the...... to know when a holy day is and/or  deficient in schooling to not recognize that there is a Gregorian Calendar and a Julian Calendar. To each his own and the State of New York should go to hell for telling bettors when a holy day is.  It is observed that the infidel feds only put December 25 on the federal holy day calendar. God is on the currency and this should be enough? Not for John Sabini.

 

Hey Koenig, help out the bettors of NY  et al and sue to have NY PML Sec 105 and Sec 108 declared unconstitutional, violative of the rights of NY Bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 and inapplicable to Nassau OTB?

 

05/22/2012 4:54PM

Dutrow attorney has day in court

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Richard Dutrow Jr. is taking legal action to avoid a ban set down by New York officials.

ALBANY, N.Y. – The attorney for trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. argued Tuesday in court that the New York State Racing and Wagering Board’s case against his client is tainted by an “indefensible conflict of interest” on the part of board chairman John Sabini and that the organization’s ruling to revoke the trainer’s license for 10 years should be dismissed.
Michael Koenig, the attorney representing Dutrow, argued that Sabini’s dual role as chairman of the state racing and wagering board and secretary-treasurer for the Racing Commissioners International created an appearance of impropriety that resulted in a violation of Dutrow’s right to due process.
“What one of Mr. Sabini’s boards was actively advocating for, his other organization controlled and decided,” Koenig argued.
Koenig made his arguments before a five-judge panel that make up the state’s Supreme Court Appellate Division, Third Department, an intermediate-level appellate court. The panel consists of judges Leslie Stein, Robert Rose, Thomas Mercure, John Lahtinen, and William McCarthy.
Kathleen Arnold, an attorney from New York State’s Attorney General’s office, argued the case for the state. Arnold said there is no evidence that Sabini called for the hearing looking into Dutrow’s license. Further, she said, Sabini did not get involved in the case until “the record of evidence was before him.”
A decision in the case is not expected for four to eight weeks. Dutrow did not attend Tuesday’s hearing.
In February 2011, Dutrow was suspended 90 days by the board for two violations that occurred in November 2010. First, one of his horses tested positive for a banned substance. Second, three syringes filled with the drug xylazine were found in the desk drawer of Dutrow’s Aqueduct office.
Dutrow appealed those suspensions on Feb. 16. The following day, Ed Martin, executive director of the RCI, made public a letter asking the New York racing board to hold a show-cause hearing to review whether Dutrow should have his trainer’s license revoked because of a history of repeated rules violations.
According to Koenig, Sabini was forwarded an e-mail that originated from staffers of U.S. Sen. Tom Udall to the RCI questioning whether the 90-day suspension handed Dutrow was too light.
On March 2, the New York racing board announced it would hold a show-cause hearing, which took place over three days last May and June in Schenectady. In October, following the filing of a written report from hearing officer Clem Parente, the three-panel board – including Sabini _ voted unanimously to suspend Dutrow’s license for 10 years while also fining him $50,000.

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