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A federal jury in Manhattan yesterday awarded a Triborough Bridge and Tunnel worker, Gregory Fishman, $735k in damages for anti-semitic discrimination by his boss at the Queens Midtown Tunnel.  Fishman, 45, was a "bridge and tunnel maintainer" from 1991 to 2006.

As well as the $735k damages already specified by the jury, the judge in the case, US District Court Judge Lawrence McKenna  is considering Fishman's claim for compensation for lost wages.
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We must have reproduced logos or 'marks' of companies and tollers ten thousand or more times in the past 13 years - first in black and white in the print Toll Roads Newsletter, then in color in this web-based news service. They enliven and illustrate the articles and are an inherent part of our style. They are a shorthand way of signaling instantly to the reader the identity of the main actors in the story in which they are placed.
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The New York State attorney-general has said that free E-ZPass accounts for members and past members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board are illegal and should immediately be revoked. But the MTA arguing "we've done it for years" will take the matter to court, seeking a judgment on the legality of the perk.
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TransCore plan to lodge an appeal against the May 22 US District Court's dismissal of their complaint against ETC on patent infringement in Illinois. An official said: "I don't think you'll find this is the end of the story."
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US District Court in Dallas has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit by TransCore against ETC alleging infringement of open road tolling patents in the E-ZPass area. TransCore alleged in their suit that ETC improperly used methodologies they owned through patents for open road tolling with the IAG's Mark IV transponders and readers.
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The Virginia Supreme Court has blocked regional transportation funding powers legislated last year saying the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) cannot be granted revenue raising powers reserved by the state constitution to the General Assembly or to directly elected bodies. This immediately invalidates another funding source previously relied on for the Dulles metrorail project planned in the median of the Dulles Toll Road. 606 words  read more »

Three employees in a Cintra team doing a photographic and notetaking survey of facilities along the Pennsylvania Turnpike were taken into custody for a couple of hours by state police Tuesday afternoon and questioned. They had their cameras, camera cards, laptops and CDs examined. Police and the Turnpike had received reports from motorists of "suspicious activity" and treated it as a case of possible terrorist surveillance.
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