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January 29, 2009
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Vicky Crawford: Six Years to Get Her Day in Court

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This week the U.S. Supreme Court reversed lower-court rulings in the case of Vicky* Crawford, allowing her suit against Metro Nashville Public Schools in Tennessee to go to trial. (*I've also seen her first name spelled Vicki, don't know which is correct.) The way I read things, Ms. Crawford got royally screwed both by her employers and by the courts. In 2001, Gene Hughes was hired as the emp...
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