268:(which he helped to found), and served in this role until 1955. CLSA conducted legal battles against antisemitism, segregation, racism, and other discriminatory laws in order to "defend civil liberties and fight discrimination against all minority groups." He won a six-year battle against antisemitic job practices by the Arabian-American Oil Company (ARAMCO, current "
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Polier also fought against religious discrimination by representing would-be Jewish parents in civil suits to fight for the parents' rights to adopt children whose mothers were baptized as
Catholics, as well as fighting against religious matching of probationers to officers.
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