http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MUSLIM_GARB_LAWSUIT?SITE=ORSAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULTA Muslim woman who was barred from accompanying her children to a public swimming pool because she was fully clothed settled a lawsuit Friday against the city of Omaha.
The city said it amended its swimming pool dress code to accommodate religious or medical needs. Other details of the settlement with Lubna Hussein were not made public.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the federal lawsuit last year, alleging Hussein, who wanted to accompany her three children to the pool, was twice turned away in 2003 after she told employees she couldn't wear a bathing suit because of her religious beliefs.
Hussein told pool workers she did not intend to swim, but they said she could not be in the pool area in street clothes, according to the lawsuit. Hussein claimed other people in the pool area were not wearing bathing suits when she was turned away.
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