Text Box: Volume 29, Number 7 March, 2009 Page # Text Box: Legal Advocacy Foundation Text Box: *Please save the date Saturday, May 16,  for the AAUW luncheon meeting and LAF Book Sale fundraiser at Corvallis Country Club.  *Start saving gently-used hardback or paperback books for the LAF Book Sale.  Other media items are also welcome additions to the sale.  *LAF continues to expand its online resource library.  Information on the Family and Medical Leave Act and Pregnancy Discrimination Act have recently been added, and information on sexual harassment in Text Box: the workplace will be posted later.  *LAF will continue to provide travel grants and stipends to LAF speakers as requested by branches and will work proactively with potential speakers, including those we support as amicus curiae, to encourage their participation.  *Settlement and Decision Towers v. State University of New York at Stony Brook Sherry Towers, a postdoctoral research scientist in the physics department of the State Text Box: University of New York, Stony Brook, until 2005, lost her job after complaining about discriminatory behavior displayed by her immediate supervisor.  According to her complaint, Towers' supervisor became hostile toward her when she told him that she was pregnant and that she needed to cut back her current 60 to 70 hours-per-week schedule following the birth of her child.  She alleges that she was effectively fired in retaliation for complaining to the department head.  In fall 2008, Towers settled her case to the mutual satisfaction of all parties.

By Legal Advocacy  Foundation  Chair

Marilyn Roland

rolandm2@comcast.net