Matt Hall
Matt Hall at the Red Bull Airrace 2010 in Abu Dhabi
Born	(1971-09-16) 16 September 1971 (age 40)
Nationality	Australia
Racing career
First race	2009
Best position	3rd (2009)
Aircraft	MXS-R
Website
www.matthallracing.com

Matt Hall (born 16 September 1971 in Merewether, Australia^[1]) is a third generation pilot, a former Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Fighter Combat (Top Gun) Instructor, international unlimited aerobatic competitor and the first Australian to be selected to compete in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, starting in 2009.^[2]

Flying history[link]

Hall has a long flying history, having started flying with his father at an early age. He is a third generation pilot, his grandfather having flown in World War II.

Hall's first solo flight was at age 15 in a glider, and he gained his aircraft pilot's licence at the age of 18. He is licensed in gliders, ultra-lights and hang gliders, and has had one parachute jump. He has more than 4,000 hours in various aircraft types, including over 700 in light aircraft and over 500 doing aerobatics. As these flights are often only 20–30 minutes, he has many more takeoffs and landings. Hall has over 300 hours in his airshow display aircraft, the Giles G-202, and is exploring the limits of both himself and this aircraft.

He is passionate about general aviation and light aircraft. A Mustang P-51D is his fifth aircraft (the others were a Vans RV-4, Acrosport II biplane, Piper Cherokee180C and the Giles G-202). He is flying an MXS during the Red Bull Air Race 2009 season.

Military career[link]

As a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fighter pilot, Hall logged over 1500 F/A-18 Hornet hours. As a Fighter Combat Instructor, in 2006 he completed a tour as the chief instructor for this demanding course.

He has received many awards during his military career, including Dux of Pilot, F/A-18 Hornet and Fighter Combat Instructor courses, the 1997 Fighter Pilot of the Year, and he was awarded a Chief of Air Force commendation for his performance as the Chief Instructor of the 2006 Fighter Combat Instructor course.

Hall spent three years in the United States of America on a USAF exchange programme, flying over 500 hours in the F-15E Strike Eagle, including combat. For his efforts, he was awarded combat decorations by both the US and Australia.

He resigned from the RAAF to allow him to become a full-time race pilot.

Aerobatic history[link]

Hall has flown aerobatics for many years, becoming more serious about competition and display aerobatics whilst on his military exchange in the USA. He travelled widely to air shows, fly-ins and aerobatic competitions, and was inspired by performances at the 2003 World Aerobatic Championships (WAC) in Florida. Through involvement at competitions and as a member of the International Aerobatic Club, he was able to be coached and mentored by many of the top US competitors and performers.

Initially competing in his Acrosport II biplane, he won the US East Coast Aerobatic Championship at the Sportsman level. He soon reached the limits of the aircraft's capabilities, and moved up to the Giles G-202, which he brought back to Australia, as the first of type. He won the NSW State Aerobatic Championships at Intermediate level in the Giles G-202 in October 2005.^[3]

In April 2006 Hall won the Australian Aerobatic Championships at the Advanced level, his first Nationals and Advanced competition.^[4] In April 2007 he moved up to Unlimited, and competed at the Australian National Aerobatic Championships, placing second overall, but first in Freestyle.^[5] He then went on to compete in the US Nationals in September, using Rob Holland's MX-2, achieving 10th place overall, and 5th in the Freestyle competition.

In November 2007, the Red Bull Air Race offered him the chance to participate in a series of Training Camps under former world champion Patrick Paris, as a lead up to the 2008 European Aerobatic Championships. During the lead up, he competed in the World Aerobatics Cup in Prague, finishing 8th,^[6] then achieved the required top half finish in the European Championships, finishing his eligibility requirements for selection for a Red Bull Air Race Qualification Camp. Racing aside, he aims to be aerobatic World Champion in the future.

In September 2008, he successfully completed the Red Bull Air Race Qualification Camp, becoming the first Australian to be awarded the coveted Red Bull Air Race Super Licence. Finally, in November 2008 he heard the news that he was selected to join Red Bull Air Race World Championship circuit in 2009.^[7]

In June 2010 while qualifying for first session in Windsor, Ontario for the Red Bull Air Race his plane touched the water of the Detroit River due to aerodynamic wing stall but he recovered and landed safely. The plane received "superficial damage", mainly to the right aileron.^[8]

Competition aside, Hall also spends a significant amount of his aerobatic flying working on his high energy display flying. This is a new style of "freestyle" flying, in which the pilot uses the aircraft surfaces in novel ways to develop new manoeuvres such as end-over-end tumbling.

Media[link]

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References[link]

v t e Red Bull Air Race World Championship pilots Current pilots (2010)  Hannes Arch •  Péter Besenyei •  Paul Bonhomme •  Kirby Chambliss •  Matthias Dolderer •  Michael Goulian •  Matt Hall •  Nicolas Ivanoff •  Adilson Kindlemann •  Nigel Lamb •  Pete McLeod •  Yoshihide Muroya •  Sergey Rakhmanin •  Martin Šonka Former pilots  Glen Dell •  Steve Jones •  Jurgis Kairys •  Alejandro Maclean •  Mike Mangold •  David Martin •  Klaus Schrodt •  Frank Versteegh

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Bradley Stanford Woodside (born 1948) in Fredericton and is currently the mayor of Fredericton, New Brunswick. Woodside is presently also serving as the 3rd Vice-President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. First elected as a councillor in 1981, he also served as deputy mayor. In 1986, Woodside was elected Mayor of Fredericton and is now serving his seventh term which makes him the longest serving mayor of Fredericton.^[1]

As Mayor, Woodside can count a range of accomplishments, including promoting IT in Fredericton, and the development of information technology infrastructure such as the Fred eZone wireless zone. His tenure as mayor has also seen the promotion of music festivals in Fredericton including the Harvest and Blues Jazz Festival, the Country Music Festival, and FredRock. While infill development and sustainability have been priorities of his tenure as mayor, he has also faced controversy over sprawling box-store development in the university woods, a previously protected wooded area.

Also as mayor, Woodside became notorious in the mid-1990s for his refusal to proclaim Gay Pride Weekend. The organization Fredericton Lesbians and Gays (FLAG) first requested that the mayor make the proclamation in 1992. In 1995, two members of FLAG complained to the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission, alleging that the mayor had discriminated against them on the basis of their sexual orientation. In 1998, the Human Rights Board of Inquiry concluded that Woodside had discriminated against the complainants and ordered him to proclaim Gay Pride Weekend on a date chosen by them.^[2]

Woodside received an honourary doctor of laws degree from St. Thomas University in 2011. Eleven professors at the small liberal arts university protested, in part because of his refusal to proclaim Pride Weekend in the 1990s.^[3]

References[link]

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Matthew Church

Personal information
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling style	Right arm medium
International information
National side	English
Career statistics
Competition	First-class	List A
Matches	20	24
Runs scored	629	292
Batting average	17.97	16.22
100s/50s	1/1	0/1
Top score	152	64*
Balls bowled	241	36
Wickets	9	0
Bowling average	18.11	-
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	N/A
Best bowling	4-50	-
Catches/stumpings	13/0	7/0
Source: Cricinfo,

Matthew John Church (born 26 July 1972 in Guildford, Surrey) is a former English cricketer who played county cricket for Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in the 1990s.

Church played Second XI cricket for Surrey in 1993, as well as appearing for the MCC Young Cricketers, but his first-class debut was for Worcestershire against Nottinghamshire in August 1994: opening the batting with captain Tim Curtis, he scored 22 and 0. Immediately afterwards he made his List A debut, against the same opponents, in the AXA Equity and Law League and made 18. He stayed in both the Championship and one-day sides until the end of the season, albeit with limited success.

The start of the 1995 season saw Church play only occasionally for the first team, and he never made the impression required to become a regular in the side, with a first-class batting average languishing in the mid-teens and a top score of only 35 in a total of 14 innings in both forms of the game. 1996 was a better year on the face of it, with 280 first-class runs at 25.75, but more than half of those came from just one of his 11 innings, when he hit 152 (almost treble the next highest score of his career) against Oxford University in June. That game also saw Church take his first wicket, that of William Kendall, and go on to record what was to remain his best innings bowling return of 4-50.

He made the short journey to Gloucestershire for 1997, but again had a frustrating time, spending most of the season in the seconds and playing only four first-team games all season. In those he had a couple of useful innings - 53 and 49 against Pakistan A in a first-class and one-day tour match respectively - but for the most part he had to content himself with piling up the runs in the Second XI, for whom he hit three hundreds. 1998 was only slightly better, and though he picked up the man-of-the-match award for an unbeaten 64 against Hampshire he managed very little else above second-team level.

Church left Gloucestershire, and senior cricket, after the 1998 season, although he did have a couple more minor outings several years later: one for Surrey Cricket Board in the 2002 ECB 38-County Cup and another for the Duke of Norfolk's XI against Ireland the following year; in both matches he made a duck, though he did manage one wicket in the earlier game.

External links[link]

• Player profile: Matthew Church from ESPNcricinfo
• Statistical summary from CricketArchive

John Catsimatidis b. 1948, is the owner, president, chairman, and CEO of the Red Apple Group and Gristedes Foods. He is also the chairman and CEO of the Red Apple Group subsidiary United Refining Company.

self-portrait of Mr. Catsimatidis

The Red Apple Group also has holdings in aviation and real estate interests in New York, Florida, and the U.S Virgin Islands. He owns and operates the Hellenic Times newspaper. John Catsimatidis has also received an Ellis Island Medal of Honor.^[1]

Early life[link]

Catsimatidis grew up in New York, NY after coming to the United States as an infant with his parents from the island of Nisyros, Greece. He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1966.

While pursuing a BS in electrical engineering at New York University (NYU), Catsimatidis worked for an uncle in a small supermarket on 137th Street. Catsimatidis ultimately dropped out of college,^[2] and in 1971, convinced he could make money in the grocery business, he opened his first store on Manhattan's Upper West Side at 99th Street and Broadway under the name "Seven Eleven" (which was not part of the similarly named franchise). Soon afterwards he opened a Red Apple supermarket on 87th street just west of Broadway.^[3][4]

Business Interests[link]

Aviation[link]

A certified jet pilot, Catsimatidis has been involved in the airline industry since the early 70's. His holdings in the aviation industry have included a fleet of leased commercial aircraft operated as C&S Acquisition and Capitol Air Express. His corporate jet company, United Air Fleet, operated as many as forty corporate aircraft.

Red Apple Group[link]

A Country Fair gas station in Fairview Township in Erie County, Pennsylvania.

In 1986 the Gristedes supermarket chain was acquired by the Red Apple Group. Gristedes was founded in 1888 by brothers Diedrich and Charles Gristede. There are over 50 stores in the chain operating throughout New York City, Westchester and a single store in Locust Valley, Long Island.

United Refining Company of Warren, PA., founded in 1902, currently employs over 3470 people and is a subsidiary of Red Apple Group. The refinery processes 70,000 ^[4] barrels of oil a day providing fuel to 372 Kwik Fill/Red Apple food marts and Country Fair gas stations, as well as associated motels and truck stops, in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.^[5]

In October, 2009, Forbes Magazine reported that United Refining Energy Corp., a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by United Refining, was purchasing "privately held Chaparral Energy in a deal worth roughly $1.6 billion." ^[6] However, United Refining Energy Corp. shareholders did not approve the deal and it was terminated in December 2009.^[7]

As of November 2011, the Red Apple Group ranked 98th on Forbes list of largest private companies with revenue of $3.8 billion and 7,600 employees. (This compares to its 2008 and 2009 rank, both at #100, and 2010 at #78).^[8]

SemGroup[link]

In 2008 Catsimatidis became engaged in efforts to take over SemGroup LP, a bankrupt oil, gas, and asphalt trading, storage and transportation company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Catsimatidis gained control over a majority of the company's management committee, but his efforts were met by opposition from the company's existing management, who argued for selling off at least some of the company's assets, while Catsimatidis stated his intention to keep the company together.^[9] On February 11, 2009 Catsimatidis was sued by a group of SemGroup executives, seeking removal of Catsimatidis and his allies from the committee.^[10] In July Catsimatidis reached a settlement with SemGroup, pursuant to which he acquired a piece of SemGroup's asphalt business and dropped his competing plan for the company's proposed reorganization.^[11][12]

Later life[link]

Family[link]

On October 2, 1988, John A. Catsimatidis married his former secretary, Margo Vondersaar. This was his second marriage. Mrs. Catsimatidis works in the advertising industry as President of MCV advertising and is also co-publisher of The Hellenic Times. ^[13] They have two children, Andrea and John Jr. Andrea, graduated from New York University and married Christopher Cox, on June 4, 2011, grandson of Richard Nixon [4](2011/06/16/New York Times) John Jr is currently a student at New York University.

Charitable involvement[link]

Catsimatidis' charitable interests are largely centered in his Greek roots, such as the Hellenic Times Scholarship Foundation and the Greek Orthodox church where he served as President of the Archdiocesan Council of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. However, he is a large donor to the G&P Foundation for Cancer Research.^[14]

Catsimatidis has served on the Board of Directors of the Police Athletic League of New York City since the 1980s, and on the Board of Directors of the Drum Major Institute since 2002^[15] He was the Vice-chairman of the Ellis Island Awards Foundation, of the National Ethnic Coalition Organization (NECO), and is co-founder of the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation. This foundation has a $10 million endowment and the first foundation in the country established on behalf of a public school.

Mr. Catsimatidis is also involved with Juvenile Diabetes', Alzheimer's and Parkinson's research foundations. He and his wife, Margo, raised over $1,000,000 for the Diabetes and Alzheimer's Foundations. This year, Catsimatidis added the Interfaith Theological Center of New York and Outward Bound to his circle of charitable interests.

Political affiliations[link]

He has made donations to Democratic Party and Republican Party campaigns,^[16] and helped run a fund-raiser in 2006 with New York City Mayor Bloomberg for Joseph Lieberman. This was for Lieberman's run as an Independent after losing the Connecticut Democratic Party primary for the U.S. Senate.^[17]

He's also on record as being a major supporter of NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly in running for mayor. (Mr. Kelly has been denying he intends to run). ^[18]

Personal Finances[link]

As per the Forbes' Magazine's list "The World's Billionaires", published in March, 2012, Mr. Catsimatidis ranked #634 with a net worth of $2.0 Billion. ^[19] Similarly, as per the magazine's list of "Richest in the United States" (Sept, 2011), Mr. Catsimatidis ranked/tied at #212 with a net worth of $2 billion.

Potential Mayoral Run 2009[link]

Previously a Democrat (during the Bill Clinton administration), John Catsimatidis was reportedly going to make a bid in the New York City mayoral election in 2009 as a Republican.^[20] He planned to self-fund his campaign.^[21]

In media interviews during the fall of 2007 and again during an interview with Steve Forbes in March 2009^[22] he repeatedly confirmed his mayoral candidacy.^[23]

However, once NYC's incumbent successfully changed the "term limits" law to let him run for a third term, Mr. Catsimatidis quietly withdrew.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Helenic Times Scholarship Fund
• The G&P Foundation for Cancer Research
• Planning the Path from Gristedes to Gracie Mansion interview at CityHallNews.com
• Gristedes Supermarket website
• United Refining Company website
• Village Voice profile, 26-Feb-2008
• Forbes profile/interview, March 2008

Gloria Allred
Gloria Allred in a parade in 2007
Born	Gloria Rachel Bloom (1941-07-03) July 3, 1941 (age 70) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Education	B.A., University of Pennsylvania M.A., New York University J.D., Loyola Law School
Occupation	Attorney
Employer	Allred, Maroko & Goldberg
Children	Lisa Bloom
Website
gloriaallred.com
Notes [1]

Gloria Rachel Allred (née Bloom; born (1941-07-03)July 3, 1941) is an American lawyer noted for taking high-profile and often controversial cases, particularly those involving the protection of women's rights.^[1]

Early life and family[link]

Gloria Rachel Bloom was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1941. After graduating from the Philadelphia High School for Girls, she attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she met her first husband. The couple had their only child, Lisa, on September 20, 1961, and divorced shortly after. Lisa Bloom is also an attorney and is best known as a former Court TV anchor.^[2]

Gloria Bloom moved back in with her parents and continued her education. In 1963, she earned a bachelor's degree in English, graduating with honors. She tried her hand at a variety of jobs before she decided to become a teacher, taking a position at Benjamin Franklin High School. She began work on a graduate degree at New York University, where she became interested in the civil rights movement. After earning a master's degree, she became a teacher and, in 1966, moved to Los Angeles, California, and lived in Watts.^[3] She graduated from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1975.^[4]

In 1968, she married William Allred. They divorced in 1987, though she has retained her married name for professional use.^[5]

Career[link]

Legal[link]

Gloria Allred has represented numerous parties in various high-profile cases, and frequently comments on television. Gloria Allred represented Amber Frey when Frey was a witness in the criminal case against Scott Peterson.^[6] She has also represented cases against the Boy Scouts of America for excluding an eleven year old girl named Katrina Yeaw, something she referred to as gender apartheid, and a case against the former Sav-On Drugstore chain for having both a boys and a girls toy section, as well as representing actress Hunter Tylo when producer Aaron Spelling fired her because of her pregnancy.^[7][8]

In 1981, she sued California State Senator John G. Schmitz for slander, resulting in a settlement of $20,000 and an apology.^[9]

In 1985, Allred, along with Catherine MacKinnon, drafted a version of the Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance for Los Angeles County. The legislation failed to pass the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.^[10][11]

In 1987, Allred achieved notoriety after successfully suing the then all-male Friars Club in Beverly Hills, an exclusive private club, over its membership discrimination policies.^[12] The Friars Club eventually settled the lawsuit with Allred and five other plaintiffs,^[13] after Allred displayed early skills in the effective use of the media.^[14]

In August 1997, she represented the model Kelly Fisher^[15] when she sued Dodi Fayed for allegedly breaking off their engagement to begin his highly-publicized relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales. The suit was dropped not long after Diana and Fayed died in Paris that August.^[16]

She represented Nicole Brown Simpson's family during the O. J. Simpson murder trial. She also represented photographer Henry Trappler in a lawsuit against Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee. Allred is also known for her criticism of pop singer Michael Jackson. After watching media coverage of the Berlin event with Michael Jackson, she wrote a letter to California's Child Protective Services, asking for an investigation into the safety of Jackson's children. She also spoke on CNN about the subject. Child Protective Services does not make their investigations public, so it is not known whether any action was taken as a result of Allred's letter.^[17]

Gloria Allred also represented Rhonda Miller in a sexual harassment suit against Arnold Schwarzenegger during his run for California's gubernatorial recall election in 2003.^[18] The lawsuit was later dismissed.

In November 2006, Cindy Streit, etiquette consultant in the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, hired Allred, who demanded that the California Attorney General investigate fraud allegedly committed by Sacha Baron Cohen and the film's producers.^[19]

On July 19, 2007, she filed a lawsuit in Superior Court on behalf of Elizabeth Mazzocchi against actor Esai Morales for "intentional and negligent transmission of a sexually transmitted disease, assault, battery, and breach of contract."^[20]

She represented three former Circuit City employees on behalf of a large plaintiff class in an age discrimination lawsuit against that company after it fired 3,400 workers nationwide in April 2007.^[21]

In September 2007, she represented Tony Barretto, a former bodyguard of pop singer Britney Spears, in the child custody case between Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline.

She represented Mandi Hamlin in a March 2008 complaint against the TSA.^[22] Hamlin was reported to have been humiliated when she was made to take off her nipple rings in a Lubbock, Texas, airport.^[23]

In April 2008, it was reported that she had been hired by the family of the teenager who had been beaten and filmed by eight Florida teenagers.^[24] She also appeared on Today with Jessica Gibson, who is counter-suing Rob Lowe for sexual harassment.^[25]

On February 24, 2004, Gloria Allred and her law firm, Allred, Maroko and Goldberg, filed the first lawsuit in California challenging the denial of marriage licenses as being unconstitutional. She took the case pro bono for Robin Tyler and Diane Olson and Rev. Troy Perry and his husband Phillip Ray De Blieck. On May 15, 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of equal marriage rights for lesbian and gay couples.^[26]

On July 30, 2008, Gloria Allred filed a complaint with federal regulators against Downey Savings and Loan Association regarding check-cashing procedures. Marc Retmier, a 19 year old US Navy Hospitalman, was killed in action in Afghanistan in June 2008. Downey Savings refused to immediately cash his family's military bereavement checks, and Marc Retmier's family were forced to look elsewhere to secure funding necessary to pay for his funeral services.^[27]

In December 2009, Allred was retained by Rachel Uchitel after media sources alleged Uchitel had been having an affair with married golfer Tiger Woods.^[28] Allred is also representing Joslyn James, a pornographic actress and Woods's alleged mistress.^[29]

In February 2010, Allred was retained by Amanda J. Eneman, a massage therapist and ex-girlfriend of Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Scott Lee Cohen who once had Cohen arrested, and who had herself been arrested for prostitution.^[30]

On May 14, 2010, in a news conference held at Allred's office, English actress Charlotte Lewis, alleged that director Roman Polanski had sexually abused her in his Paris apartment when she was 16 years old.^[2][31] In June 2010 she was hired by Debrahlee Lorenzana, a former bank employee who had drawn wide public attention after alleging she was fired for being too attractive.^[2] In August 2010, Allred represented Jodie Fisher, whose sexual harassment claim revealed expense-account irregularities that led to the resignation of HP CEO Mark Hurd.^[32]

In July 2010, Allred filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against actor, David Boreanaz. She claimed he sexually harassed her client during filming of his TV show, "Bones," and it began during filming on August 21, 2009. According to the suit, Boreanaz was sending "sexually inappropriate text messages" to Kristina Hagan, who was an extra on the show. Hagan also claims Boreanaz grabbed, kissed, and fondled her and then "masturbated in front of her."^[33] In March 2011, Boreanaz settled the lawsuit. The terms of the settlement are confidential.^[34]

On April 27, 2011, Allred appeared at a press conference with the family of Justin Quinn, who was allegedly threatened at a San Francisco Giants baseball game by Braves coach Roger McDowell. Quinn had objected to McDowell's uttering of homophobic slurs and use of a baseball bat to simulate a sex act in the presence of his daughters.^[35][36]

On June 15, 2011, Allred appeared at a press conference with former pornographic actress Ginger Lee in regard to Representative Anthony Weiner allegedly coaching her to lie on his behalf in relation to a sexting scandal.^[37]

On October 18, 2011, Allred won court approval to represent nine former middle-aged cocktail waitresses who were fired from their jobs at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey after they "did not look good enough" in new uniforms modeled after 1920s-era Flapper outfits. Resorts had sought to bar Allred from the discrimination lawsuit, arguing in court papers that her "flamboyant and headline-grabbing antics" would add nothing to the case.^[38]

On November 7, 2011, Allred appeared at a press conference with Sharon Bialek, a Chicago woman who alleged that Herman Cain grabbed her in a sexually aggressive way when she sought his help after losing her position at an education foundation affiliated with the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s.^[39]

On March 9, 2012, Allred reportedly called for an investigation into whether radio personality Rush Limbaugh should be subject to criminal prosecution in Florida for derogatory remarks he made regarding a female law student. Allred commented: "Mr. Limbaugh targeted his attack on a young law student who was simply exercised [sic] her free speech and her right to testify before congress on a very important issue to millions of American women and he vilified her. He defamed her and engaged in unwarranted, tasteless and exceptionally damaging attacks on her..... He needs to face the consequences of his conduct in every way that is meaningful."^[40]

Also in 2012, Allred took on the case of Jenna Talackova, a Canadian transgender woman who was challenging her disqualification from the Miss Universe Canada pageant for not being a "naturally born" female.^[41] The Miss Universe organization ultimately reversed its decision before the case proceeded to the courts.^[41]

Entertainment[link]

She formerly co-hosted a radio talkshow with Mark Taylor on KABC in Los Angeles. She also served as a panelist on the 1990 revival of television game show To Tell the Truth.^{[citation needed]} She made two cameos as herself on the 2001 film Rat Race.

On September 12, 2011, Allred debuted in the court TV show "We the People With Gloria Allred", a show using improv actors to reenact real-life case scenarios.^[42]

Works[link]

• Allred, Gloria; Rybak, Deborah Caulfield (2006). Fight Back and Win: My Thirty Year Fight against Injustice and How You Can Win Your Own Battles. New York: ReganBooks. ISBN 978-0-06-073928-7. OCLC 62755633. 

See also[link]

• Membership discrimination in California social clubs

References[link]