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NYS bill sponsored by LIers would teach students hateful meaning of racist symbols without teaching church history& that there was once a nassau otb branch in baldwin. the DA does not like ny const art 1 sec 3 like andrew cuomo does not like the wandering dago food truck. open the holy church of nassau otb

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Long Island middle and high school students would be taught the hateful meanings of the swastika and the noose under planned legislation introduced last week by LI state lawmakers. (Credit: News 12 Long Island)

By Robert Brodsky

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Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.

robert.brodsky@newsday.com   @BrodskyRobert Updated August 14, 2019 12:44 PM

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Long Island middle and high school students would be taught the hateful meaning of the swastika and the noose as part of new legislation introduced last week by state lawmakers.

Wandering Dago, Inc. v. Destito, No. 16-622 (2d Cir. 2018)

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Justia Opinion Summary

WD filed suit against OGS, alleging that defendants violated its rights under the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, and the New York State Constitution by denying WD's applications to participate as a food truck vendor in the Lunch Program based on its ethnic-slur branding. The Second Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant, holding that defendants' action violated WD's equal protection rights and its rights under the New York State Constitution. In this case, it was undisputed that defendants denied WD's applications solely because of its ethnic-slur branding. In Matal v. Tam, 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), the Supreme Court clarified that this action amounted to viewpoint discrimination and, if not government speech or otherwise protected, was prohibited by the First Amendment. The court rejected defendants' argument that their actions were unobjectionable because they were either part of OGS's government speech or permissible regulation of a government contractor's speech.

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The bill, sponsored by State Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach), comes amid a dramatic uptick in hate crimes across Nassau this year, including the discovery last week of seven swastikas on a pavilion at Theodore Roosevelt Park in Oyster Bay. Nassau officials have offered a $20,000 reward leading to an arrest in the case. 

"It's incredibly important that when our young people go to school they understand what these symbols mean, how they were used and what kind of pain they can inflict in our communities," Kaminsky said at a news conference in Rockville Centre.