Newsweek Magazine v. District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:
Petitioners seek reversal of a decision of the respondent District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter the Commission) awarding complainant Samuel F. Yette $1,000 damages and $20,000 attorneys fees for alleged acts of racial discrimination assertedly perpetrated on him by Newsweek Magazine, his employer, and Mel Elfin, the Washington Bureau Chief. Petitioners also urge this court to overturn the Commission’s order requiring the magazine to establish and maintain in its Washington office an affirmative action program and to make regular reports on that…
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