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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.
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.
Weeks won the 2020 and 2021 Hyrox World Championships. She competed in the first season of the reality competition show Spartan Games in 2021. After placing in the top three in the first season, Weeks returned to compete in the second season in 2022. [3] She competed in the 2022 HYROX World Championships while eight months pregnant and finished ...
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.
Lorena Alice Hickok was born on March 7, 1893, in East Troy, Wisconsin, the daughter of Addison J. Hickok, a dairy farmer who specialized in making butter, and Anna Hickok (née Anna Adelia Wiate, d. 1906). [3] She had two sisters, Ruby Adelsa (later Ruby Claff, 1896–1971) and Myrtle.
A bit player in Prinsesang Gusgusin (1958), Gutierrez was introduced in Handsome (1959) and played the lead in films like Kaming Makasalanan (1960), Eddie Longlegs (1964), Portrait of My Love (1965) and Pogi (1967).
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 is a German, English, Croatian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish feminine given name with different origins. It can be used as a version of Lorraine or, alternately, as a Latin version of Lauren . [ 1 ]