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Below is the complaint filed by Ron Chalhon against Leg Avenue, Inc., Leg Avenue’s Creative Director Melody Tsai, and Leg Avenue’s Chief Marketing Officer Amy Tsai. In it he alleges discriminatory termination based on his Jewish religious beliefs and hostile work environment based on his religious beliefs and ethnicity, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act…

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A Staten Island trial court recently dismissed a lawsuit arising from injuries sustained by an 11-year old judo student (Anthony Morales, Jr.) while training with a more senior, older, heavier, and taller student during a class.  The case is Morales v. Longview Academy of Extreme Martial Arts, Inc., decided July 29, 2013. The injury occurred when…

Read More Foot Swept, Risk Assumed, Lawsuit Dismissed
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You’ve got a good – make that great – personal injury case. Liability is a lock: It is undisputed that, while lawfully in a crosswalk with the light in her favor, your client was struck by an EvilCorp. delivery truck after its intoxicated driver (while making work-related deliveries) ran a red light. Damages are potentially…

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Below is the complaint, captioned Samuel v. Monkey Bar, L.P. et al., 13-CV-4877, filed by plaintiff Prabir Jude Samuel against Monkey Bar and its owner Graydon Carter in the Southern District of New York. Plaintiff alleges that he was deprived of minimum wage and overtime compensation and that he was subjected to harassment based on his…

Read More Race Discrimination and Wage Suit Against Monkey Bar
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Today a state appellate court unanimously affirmed Judge Tingling’s March 11, 2013 decision striking down New York City’s soda ban. The decision holds that “the Board of Health overstepped the boundaries of its lawfully delegated authority when it promulgated the Portion Cap Rule to curtail the consumption of soda drinks” and “therefore violated the state principle…

Read More Appellate Court Upholds Judge Tingling’s Decision Striking Down Soda Ban
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Plaintiff Ese O’Diah, a black man from Nigeria, sued his former employer Roastown Coffee and its owner Doug Shin for employment discrimination (alleging that he was fired because of his race, color, and national origin) and defamation. Defendants claimed that plaintiff was fired for stealing money from the store cash register. The Southern District of…

Read More Plaintiff Gets to Jury on Discrimination and Defamation Claims, Notwithstanding Theft Allegation
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Below is the complaint filed by plaintiffs Elijah Crawford and Ishmael Cox against North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc. and others. Plaintiffs (who are black) allege that they were subjected to racist remarks (such as comments about one plaintiff’s lips, hair, and penis, use of the word “nigger”, and remarks about President Obama’s low…

Read More Lawsuit: Racist Language and Nooses at Work
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I fondly remember, in Miss Schmidt’s fourth grade class, the pride I felt when I “passed” the cursive writing “test” and was rewarded with a ball point pen. Good times. In today’s electronic age, cursive writing is less relevant than it has been in the past. One article even suggests, by reference to the Zimmerman…

Read More Claims Adjuster’s Email Sufficient to Enforce Settlement Agreement
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Below is the complaint recently filed in New York state court by three female plaintiffs against various Merrill Lynch entities.  More information on this (for example) here and here. Plaintiffs allege discrimination in violation of the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL), following the non-prejudicial dismissal of those claims from plaintiffs’ federal lawsuit.  (You can…

Read More Lawsuit: “Boys Club” Alive and Well at Merrill Lynch
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A recent Southern District decision, Brown v. City of New York, outlines conduct that could easily form a roadmap for a corporate sexual harassment training course (in the “what not to do” sense). There, New York City employee Sheila Brown sued the City of New York, alleging (under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964…

Read More Conduct of Aggressive, Masturbating Misogynistic Co-Worker Results in Denial of Summary Judgment for Defendant on Sexual Harassment Claims
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