Who knows, maybe she's always had a "victim" mentality and used it to set up A&F because it worked for her in the past. Maybe she was using A&F as a foil to make a "statement" about disability discrimination. This idea certainly wouldn't be lost on a law student.
It reminds me of the soldier who enlisted post-March 2003 and then refused to deploy on the grounds that our invasion of Iraq was "illegal".
FWIW, I live pretty close to A&F's "home campus" in New Albany, Ohio. This isn't their first brush with discrimination suits. A couple have made the local news, so the company has actually swung, at least publicly, toward inclusion. Disabled or not, though, you better be pretty darned attractive to be "out front" in their flagship store. I don't think appearing anorexic hurts, either. That's my observation, at least.
Kyle
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From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kathleen Salkin
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:56 PM
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Subject: Re: Woman with disability wins suit against Abercrombie and Fitch
OK obviously my memory's going because I thought she hadn't finished
the work for her degree yet? Else why would she be working in a shop?
(I admit that I was assuming she was saving up $ or rather pounds
sterling for tuition or books as that would be the most logical reason
for working a low-paying job).
So I think I see now - you are saying she deliberately set herself up
so she could get the case into court and use the publicity or get
money? If so, it kind of backfired, wouldn't you say? What are the
disability rights people saying in the UK?
Kat
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Deri James<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 August 2009 01:39:22 Kathleen Salkin wrote:
>> Well yeah there's that, but the way things are here in in America, I'm
>> sure we have a lot of law students in retail during the summer. so
>> that wouldn't occur as a "red flag."
>>
>> Kat
>
> Hi Kat,
>
> Over here, after you get your law degree (and wish to enter the legal
> profession) you have to be "articled" to a law firm. Doing summer work with the
> firm you hope to get your articles with is a good "foot in the door strategy",
> working for a retailer isn't (particularly if you then fail to show Employment
> Disability Discrimination when you sue them after working just 6 days!) .
>
> The US has over 1.1m lawyers, UK has a lot less!!
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri
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