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Lorena W. Weeks (born 1929) was the plaintiff in an important sex discrimination case, Weeks v. Southern Bell (1969). She claimed that Southern Bell had violated her rights under the 1964 Civil Rights Act when they denied her application for promotion to a higher paying position because she was a woman.
Lorena Alice "Hick" Hickok (March 7, 1893 – May 1, 1968) was an American journalist and long-term friend and possibly romantic partner [1] of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. [ 2 ] After an unhappy and unsettled childhood, Hickok found success as a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune and the Associated Press (AP), becoming America's best-known ...
John Wayne Bobbitt (born 1967) and Lorena Bobbitt (née Gallo; born May 15, 1969) [1] [2] were an American former couple, married on June 18, 1989, [2] [3] whose relationship received international press coverage in 1993 when Lorena severed John's penis with scissors while he was asleep in bed; the penis was successfully surgically reattached.
Sylvia Roberts (1933–2014) was an American lawyer known for legal work on behalf of patients at the East Louisiana State Hospital's Forensic Unit, for the National Organization for Women's (NOW) Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDEF), as an educator and advocate for the legal rights of women in Louisiana, and on the behalf of victims of domestic violence.
The Country Walk case is a 1985 child sex abuse case which occurred in Florida and was described as a "Multi-Victim, Multi-Offender" case. [1] Francisco Fuster-Escalona, known as Frank Fuster, was convicted on multiple charges and sentenced to a minimum of 165 years behind bars, while his wife Illiana served three years.
Lorena Ochoa Reyes (Spanish: [loˈɾena oˈtʃoa] ⓘ; born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican former professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010. She was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive and total weeks (both are LPGA Tour records), from 23 April 2007 to her retirement on 2 May 2010, at ...
In the middle of a June night in 1993, a young woman slices off her husband's penis in a seeming fit of rage. John and Lorena Bobbitt's dueling versions of the attack explode into the worldwide media and spill into the courtroom. The nation takes sides as a renewed battle of the sexes feeds a ravenous 24-hour TV news cycle.
Lorna Tolentino was born as Victoria Lorna Perez Aluquin on December 23, 1961, in Concepcion, Tarlac and later moved to Manila.Her father is from Liliw, Laguna.She is also the stepmother of actor Mark Anthony Fernandez.