Sentences with phrase «discrimination suit against»

Don't risk getting a discrimination suit against you.

* Discrimination suit against Winston & Strawn hinges on what it means to be a «partner.»

The continuing case of Mitch McCormick, the B.C. lawyer who launched a discrimination suit against Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP over its mandatory retirement policy, has cast some doubt over just how far law firms can go.

In a federal age discrimination suit against law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, the firm maintains that it has no mandatory retirement age for partners.

«Judge Tosses Discrimination Suit Against Columbia for Lack of Men's Studies Program Main No Surprise: Profits Per Partner Decline for 2008»

According to the report, Alyson Kirleis, an employment lawyer herself, filed an EEOC complaint and, subsequently, a federal discrimination suit against her longtime law firm, Dickie McCamey & Chilcote, alleging claims in the nature of a hostile work environment.

Norton Rose Fulbright merger partner votes to expel litigator who filed $ 100m discrimination suit against firm

A female litigation partner at Chadbourne & Parke who last year filed a $ 100m gender discrimination suit against the firm has been expelled from its partnership.

«Free Speech at Core of Apple Suit Main Judge Tosses Discrimination Suit Against Columbia for Lack of Men's Studies Program»

Two blind students at Florida State University filed a discrimination suit against the University for failing to provide them with proper accommodations to successfully complete required math courses.

The article provides an update on the EEOC's age discrimination suit against Sidley on behalf of former firm partners that Legal Blog Watch commented on previously.

He filed a successful discrimination suit against LACMA and was promoted in 1972 to Curatorial Assistant to Maurice Tuchman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

A federal judge in Washington dismissed a State Department foreign services officer's age discrimination suit against Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Jamie's league, the Montebello Ponytail Softball Association, has filed a discrimination suit against the city of Montebello, charging the park district has allowed the boys to use 3 fields while cramming the girls on 1 fields.

In 2010, the Justice Department filed a discrimination suit against Wells Fargo alleging that the bank had shunted blacks into predatory loans regardless of their creditworthiness.

Last year he filed a racial discrimination suit against the Dakota, the well - known Manhattan apartment building, after its co-op board denied his request to buy an apartment next to his to accommodate Ms. Pao and their then -2-year-old daughter.

A former junior partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Pao lost a high - profile gender discrimination suit against the venture capital firm in March.

The study was commissioned by civil - rights attorney Cyrus Mehri (a classmate of mine from Cornell Law» 88) whose firm, Mehri & Skalet, has been behind successful multi-million dollar class action employment discrimination suits against giants like Texaco, Coca Cola and Smith Barney.

In January 1989, Whitesell, on advice of counsel and in response to an awareness of housing discrimination suits against landlords, sent Crigler a memo stating that no one who met all other qualifications for tenancy was to be denied the right to rent a unit because of discrimination on the basis of race, creed, or physical impairment.

Not exact matches

«In start - up companies, it's all about «who do I trust» and sometimes nepotism will come in,» Fraedrich says, and family - run businesses have to be especially vigilant against an ethical lapse that could lead at best to employee dissatisfaction and at worst to a discrimination suit.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Arsenal could file a law suit against UEFA for discrimination by allowing flares at European stadiums in league games.

About a week later, Mendez - Santiago's former secretary filed suit against him, charging the former commissioner with sexual harassment and discrimination.

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To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes.

(New York Daily News, Customers file suit against Baluchi's Indian restaurant for «tip discrimination» practices)(via Above the Law)

[That's] Probably what two Oregon Agriculture Department officials are feeling like as the 2nd discrimination suit in which they were the key actors went against the state, this time a loss of $ 425,000...

Lead trial counsel for plaintiffs in both the preliminary and final injunction hearings of Evans v. Romer, a successful suit challenging the constitutionality of a widely - publicized amendment to Colorado's constitution that would have prohibited any legislation protecting against discrimination based on sexual orientation; case received nationwide press coverage in broadcast and print media, including live coverage on Court TV, and was ultimately decided in plaintiffs» favor in the U. S. Supreme Court.

He counsels clients on employment issues dealing with contracts, discipline, promotions, terminations and workplace law issues, and has defended against employment discrimination suits before the New York State Division of Human Rights (DHR) and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Securing a preliminary injunction on behalf of the City of Philadelphia against another governmental agency from carrying out discriminatory elements of a fare plan and the denial of preliminary injunction in a civil rights suit, which was dismissed with prejudice, alleging racial discrimination in the implementation of certain regulations of the Pennsylvania Liquor Code.

First up, a New York judge has recused himself in the case of Floyd v. Cosi, a discrimination suit in which a former employee alleged Cosi showed bias against Floyd's race, age and disability in firing him from the restaurant chain.

The court order stems from a sexual discrimination suit filed by a former partner against 650 - lawyer McCarthy Tétrault in April 2008.

«Fire captains» discrimination suit reinstated»: The Omaha World - Herald today contains an article that begins, «Two Omaha fire captains on Monday won a federal appeal of a lawsuit that claims they were discriminated against under the City of Omaha's affirmative action plan.»

Among the firm's most significant results were wins on behalf of Kleiner Perkins in a gender discrimination case brought by former partner Ellen Pao, DISH Network in its copyright fight with the four major U.S. broadcast networks, MobileIron in a patent infringement suit against rival Good Technology, and Broadcom in a Dodd - Frank retaliation claim brought by a former employee.

The suit puts Bloomberg L.P. in a familiar position, representing the latest in a series of discrimination and sexual harassment complaints filed against the firm since the 1990s.

It concerns whether the city of Miami can bring claims against Wells Fargo and Bank of America for racially discriminatory predatory lending under the Fair Housing Act — or whether the law only allows suits by individuals directly affected by discrimination.

Other legal issues that caused major concerns for property managers, according to the 2011 Institute of Real Estate Management Legal Scan, include debt collection suits, which increased 14 percent since the 2009 survey, and fair housing cases, which grew by 25 percent for racial discrimination and 60 percent for discrimination against the disabled in that two - year period.