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Law Practice

Dec. 13, 2008

Law Librarian Wins Age-Bias Suit

The Los Angeles County Law library, home to a collection of burnt-orange and sea-foam-green chairs nearly as old as the Dewey Decimal System itself, took a recent quest to modernize too literally when it forced out one of its oldest and longest-running employees, a jury has found.

By Cortney Fielding
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The County Law library, home to a collection of burnt-orange and sea-foam-green chairs nearly as old as the Dewey Decimal System itself, took a recent quest to modernize too literally when it forced out one of its oldest and longest-running employees, a jury has found.

Diane Reynolds, who spent six of her 38 years with the library as a reference and research director downtown before bei...

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