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Karlsson ve harmony is one of those
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cases where even though it technically
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was not an employment case it was the
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kind of case that an employment lawyer
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would see to bring Nate Carlson was a
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guy who sought to use a harmony to find
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a same-sex partner Nate’s gay but at the
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time the system wouldn’t allow him to do
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it it would only allow folks to seek a
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man seeking a woman or a woman seeking a
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man after a very long fight that’s not
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the case anymore
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the system works differently now and it
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works better and it works for everyone
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we’re very proud of that case and we’re
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very proud of that case because nobody
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else had taken it on but as employment
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lawyers we knew about the whole breadth
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of anti-discrimination laws and we knew
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that law is very very similar to those
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that we used to protect the rights of
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gay individuals in the workplace could
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be used to protect the rights of gay
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individuals out there in the consumer
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place
San Francisco, CA employment lawyer Jeremy Pasternak talks about a memorable discrimination case involving the dating site eHarmony.com.