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September 24, 10:21 PM

HRG's role this season.

Jack: Keeping Claire out of the clutches of certain people plays a big part of his role this season, though he will have his own self-interests in mind.

Tim: Let's just say that the company that HRG was a part of... we haven't seen the last of it.

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Okay, so as this season kicks into gear, i cant help be think geez, What happend to those cute kids that where in season 1? {and no not molly and miach} I'm talking about Simon and Monty... Is anyone else aware that they where not even on that much?? Call me crazy but don't you think they would be alittle screwed up in the head?? After all they are a petrelli...

Let's just say that the company that HRG was a part of... we haven't seen the last of it

Let's just say that the company that HRG was a part of... we haven't seen the last of it

erm you know clair the cheerleader with the selfhealing powers, if she had sex would she still technically be a virgin still becuse surley her hyman would just heal up again, please could you give me closure on this becuse i have a $30 bet on this with a mate down the pub. Thank you

May 1, 2008
By Charlie Dang

It’s Time for Solar Turbines to Pay Its Dues!

Solar Turbines Incorporated (“Solar”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar, whose principal business is located at 2200 Pacific Highway - San Diego, CA 92101, deliberately subjected its employee Charlie T. Dang (“Dang”) to its hostile work environment while he was suffering adverse medical conditions, which further aggravated his medical conditions in addition to the mental anguish, intimidation, insult, threats and humiliation he suffered from his co-workers on the shop floor (manufacturing facility). Solar then imposed him on a two-and-a-half-year medical leave in 9/2003 and later claimed that his medical leave of absence had expired twelve weeks after it started.

During the course of Dang’s medical leave, Solar prohibited him from returning to work without its medical department’s medical clearance, knowing that its medical department would never grant him a medical clearance to return to work. During this period, Solar also prohibited Dang from seeking employment from other employers without its prior approval. However, he was trying very hard to look and kept looking for a new job during this period and after his medical leave ended, despite such prohibitions, without landing anything. Solar’s Medical Department also granted Dang the medical clearance to return to work when he was ultimately released to work by his psychiatrist.

Not too long after the start of his medical leave, Dang sent to Solar a letter to complain about its malicious practices of employment, its discriminatory acts and sexual harassment against him, which later triggered its cruel acts of retaliation against him. During this period, Dang made many attempts to return to work with his doctors’ medical releases. His attending physicians also released him to work many times, but Solar refused to allow him to return to work whenever he was released to work. During the same period, Dang’s physicians also sent medical notes and letters to Solar, requesting it to transfer him to a different work department due to the stress he had experienced in his current workplace at the time. Solar ignored all of his doctors’ requests. On the other hand, Solar deliberately attempted to recall him during the course of his medical leave so it could subject him to more of its adverse employment actions or punish him in retaliation against him for opposing its unlawful acts, instead of really returning him to work as repeatedly requested by his doctors and Dang himself.

In essence, Solar imposed Dang on a long-term medical leave of absence and refused to allow him to return to work with or without a form of reasonable accommodations when his leave ended. Furthermore, it even asked him to quit his job after he received the medical clearance to return to work granted by its own medical department. Its refusal to allow him to return to work has established the grounds that it had engaged in the malicious practices of employment to force him to quit or lose his job and its deliberate campaign of discrimination and retaliation against him for opposing its illegal acts and for trying to protect and enforce his rights of fair employment.

As a result of his complaint letter, Dang’s department manager Sharlene Mullen, who directly subjected Dang to Solar’s hostile work environment, was reprimanded by her upper managers and demoted to a non-supervisory position in a different department, where she retired from the company not too long after that. The fact of this matter demonstrates that Solar had held Sharlene Mullen accountable for her illegal acts against Dang. But no matter who took adverse employment actions against Dang, even a co-worker of his, Solar is liable for Dang’s damages under the employment laws. In addition, Dang has all the factual evidence, including Solar’s internal documents provided to him by its defense attorney, to support his claims for relief against Solar.

After a few of Solar’s motions to dismiss Dang’s causes of action for relief and its motions for a more definite statement of claims, the District Court of the Southern District of California ruled: “A leave of absence without a corresponding right to return to work is not an accommodation but rather a delayed termination.” Of course Dang had to file a discrimination and sexual harassment charge against Solar with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) before he could file a civil action lawsuit with the federal court. It took him over eight months to get the Notice-of-the-Right-to-Sue letter from the EEOC compared to an average of sixty days for an average investigation undertaken by the EEOC to wrap up.

Solar’s motions to dismiss and motions for a more definite statement did not stop here. At this time, Dang’s lawsuit against Solar was about seven months into its proceeding. About six months later, Solar’s motions stopped because they were all denied by the court.

As of 4/14/2008, Dang has sufficiently established ten legally viable claims for relief against Solar, which have been overwhelmingly supported by factual evidence, and which include: (1) Disability Discrimination; (2) Malicious Practices of Employment; (3) Intentional Employment Discrimination; (4) Intentional Infliction of Physical and Emotional Distress; (5) Sexual Harassment; (6) Retaliation in Employment; (7) Racial Discrimination; (8) Age Discrimination in Employment; (9) Failure to Provide Reasonable Accommodations; and (10) Back Pay and Front Pay Discrimination in Employment. These causes of action for relief against Solar are asserted under the: (1) the Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA); (2) the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA(; (3) the Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964 and 1991, especially Title VII of the Act; (4) the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA); (5) the California Family Rights Act (CFRA); (6) the Family Responsibility Discrimination (FRD) statute; (7) the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA); (8) and the Equal Pay Act (EPA).

Dang is suing Solar for 85 million dollars, including compensatory, liquidated and punitive damages for his pecuniary losses, emotional pain, sufferings, inconvenience, mental anguish, public humiliation, intimidation, insult, threats, loss of enjoyment of life, the job itself, back pay and front pay, and such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper. As of this posting, the case is heading for the mandatory negotiation and/or settlement conferences required by the court, and eventually for the jury trial, if the parties fail to reach a settlement out of court.

Dang’s research regarding the actual comparable cases that went to trial shows that many cases were awarded from 5 to 88 million dollars for each count. Since Dang’s lawsuit against Solar is made up of 10 counts, of which the claims for intentional employment discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, race and age discrimination, carry the heaviest penalties under to the pertinent laws, the outcome of this case would be interesting to know. On the other hand, a statistic recently conducted by the American Bar Association shows that over 98% of the comparable cases settled out of court before the jury trial, including the case filed by Sayaka Kobayashi vs. Toyota Motor North America (May 2006), where Kobayashi was seeking 190 million dollars for a single claim of sexual harassment.
Solar does not seem to care about negative publicity as it exhibits a great deal of hostility towards Dang. Therefore, he thinks that his case against Solar is likely to go to trial.

Charlie Dang is a Pro Se plaintiff as opposed to most of the comparable cases that are handled by a lawyer, so where do you think he is going from here and what the outcome of his lawsuit against defendant Solar will be?

Also what I hope to see at the end of each season,like last season, is a conclusion. With an interesting end to want to make you watch next season. Like I said this is the best Series since The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Great writers. Thanks for the giving me a great show that I can be interested in.

Great fan and what an episode.Hats off to you. A little confused about peter. Seen outside the window then flying away then at the end, locked in a shipping crate?

who is the most serious on set?

I just wanted to say Bravo...I haven't gotten this excited about television since I can't remember when! The writing is superb and we absolutely love the characters...especially Claire and Peter! Thanks for the entertainment.

how many new character are we going to see this season?

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