From the Globe and Mail Report on Business, 1992 March 11
Only In America
A U.S. court recently ruled that Rutgers University professor Alfred Bennun was entitled to sue his employer on the grounds it denied him a promotion because he was a Hispanic. (The U.S. Civil Rights Act bars discrimination against Hispanics.)
The judge allowed Mr. Bennun to sue even though his mother was born in Romania and his father in Israel. It said he was Hispanic because his father was a Sephardic Jew whose ancestors had been expelled from Spain in 1492.
So Mr. Bennun sued. Not only that, but he won. But that's America -- land of opportunity.
