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JA superintendent wins paralegal honor By: Scott Prater Schriever Sentinel 4/6/2011 - SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Master Sgt. Michael Wright, Schriever's Law Office superintendent, earned the Steve Swigonski Award for Outstanding Young Paralegal both 14th Air Force and Air Force Space Command for 2010 and has been submitted to compete at the Air Force level. The award is nothing new for Sergeant Wright, who also earned the honor at the 14th AF level 2008. Honoring Chief Master Sgt. Steve Swigonski, USAF retired, the first special assistant for Legal Airman Affairs to the Judge Advocate General, the award is presented to an active duty paralegal who demonstrates superior initiative, technical skill, leadership, attorney/paralegal teaming and devotion to duty.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that the Supreme Court has denied a petition for review by Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) of a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upholding a $100,000 punitive damages award in an EEOC lawsuit under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) on behalf of a deaf package handler. On March 2, 2006, a federal jury in Baltimore found in favor of the EEOC in its lawsuit against FedEx for violating the ADA. The EEOC had charged the Memphis, Tenn.-based global shipping giant with failing to provide reasonable accommodations to Ronald Lockhart, a profoundly deaf employee who worked as a package handler at the company's Baltimore Ramp, which is located at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The EEOC’s suit charged FedEx with violating the ADA by failing to provide Lockhart with American Sign Language interpreters and notes for mandatory employee meetings and trainings,...