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Representative Cases

First Amendment Retaliation & Whistle Blowing

• Substantial jury verdict against a school district for retaliation. Our client had been fired for whistle blowing. The jury found that the chief security officer had demoted and threatened to demote other security officers due to their race.
• Substantial multiple settlements against a school district for retaliation. After teachers urged reform in their school district, the teachers were subject to fabricated criticisms, arbitrary denials of sabbaticals, suspension, and termination.

Sexual Harassment & Hostile Work Environment

• We forced a school district to pay damages and stop its retaliation. Our client had reported that an administrator had engaged in sexual harassment by making lewd comments about her appearance. The school district retaliated against her by conducting an embarrassing investigation and subjecting our client to job changes.
• We won a case on appeal against a company for retaliation. Our client's supervisor had engaged in lewd communication and repeated unwelcome touching. The company retaliated against our client after she reported the supervisor's conduct to the company president.

Title IX Faulty Misconduct & Sexual Harassment of Students

• Substantial settlement against a school district for faulty misconduct. The school district claimed it was unaware of a teacher's misconduct, which included over several years of forced sexual activity and molestation of two female students. We filed suit and took over 20 depositions of school district employees to prove otherwise.

Title IX Sexual Discrimination in the Educational Setting

• Significant settlement against a college after the athletic director subjected a female coach to a hostile work environment because she spurned his sexual advances. The female coach was subsequently fired. We established that the reason given for firing her was questionable.
• We sued a Pennsylvania university when it proposed to cut one of the women's athletic teams, thereby reducing the total number of athletic opportunities available to women students than those available to male students. The university was directed to restore the team.

Age Discrimination

• Four engineers were fired from their jobs after a merger. We established that age was a factor in their job loss and we achieved a settlement for all four engineers.
• A jury awarded a substantial punitive damages award for our client. Our client was given a less-than-favorable rating and used internal channels to complain that the less-than-favorable rating was motivated by his age. His employer subsequently fired him, claiming the position had been eliminated. Shortly thereafter, a new position was created with similar job responsibilities, and a younger person was placed in the new position.

Race Discrimination

• A jury awarded our client compensatory and punitive damages for discrimination. Our client was the only African-American police officer in a municipal police department and was wrongly accused and fired for failing to prosecute a DUI. His sergeant had instructed him to use a faulty breathalyser test. 
• A jury returned a substantial compensatory damages award for our client. Our client, a nurse supervisor, was subjected to racial harassment and hostile work environment by her supervisor. The supervisor had stripped our client of her duties and encouraged one of our client's subordinates to file union grievances against her.