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Ex-softball coach loses lawsuit
by Outspoken on Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:42 pm
Ex-softball coach loses lawsuit
By Nok-Noi Ricker
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
BANGOR, Maine — A Superior Court Justice has ruled that the Brewer School Department did not discriminate against a softball coach who was not rehired in 2006 after officials learned she allowed student athletes to walk barefoot through sheep manure during a team picnic.
Kelly Jo Cookson, 45, of Clifton, sued the school department and Superintendent Daniel Lee in Penobscot County Superior Court in October 2006. She claimed that she was not rehired because she is a lesbian and the department "elected to replace her with a less qualified heterosexual coach." She also alleged that Lee slandered her when he told two parents that he "knew things about Kelly that I can’t share publicly."
Cookson was the first person in the state to file a lawsuit alleging discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=157394&zoneid=500
By Nok-Noi Ricker
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
BANGOR, Maine — A Superior Court Justice has ruled that the Brewer School Department did not discriminate against a softball coach who was not rehired in 2006 after officials learned she allowed student athletes to walk barefoot through sheep manure during a team picnic.
Kelly Jo Cookson, 45, of Clifton, sued the school department and Superintendent Daniel Lee in Penobscot County Superior Court in October 2006. She claimed that she was not rehired because she is a lesbian and the department "elected to replace her with a less qualified heterosexual coach." She also alleged that Lee slandered her when he told two parents that he "knew things about Kelly that I can’t share publicly."
Cookson was the first person in the state to file a lawsuit alleging discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=157394&zoneid=500
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