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Types of Cases
- Employment discrimination or harassment based on race, gender (including sexual harassment), religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or pregnancy;
- Discrimination, harassment or retaliation because a person has taken disability leave, pregnancy or family medical leave;
- Retaliation against a person who made a discrimination or harassment complaint or who supported another’s discrimination or harassment complaint;
- Retaliation against a person for making a worker’s compensation claim;
- Unpaid wages, commissions or overtime
- Failure to give meal breaks or rest breaks;
- Breaching a written, oral or implied contract;
- Requiring non-competition clauses in contracts, including in severance agreements;
- Whistleblower retaliation;
- Wrongful termination;
- Invasion of privacy;
- Defamation;
- Freedom from violence in the workplace
Sample Cases
- Tipton-Whittingham v. City of Los Angeles - $4.85 Million settlement in sex discrimination and harassment suit against LAPD, also resulting in the Department completely revamping its anti-discrimination policies and procedures; upholding the award of catalyst attorney fees under State law (2004);
- Tavelman v. City of Huntington Park - $350,000 settlement for campaign of religious harassment against Jewish police officer (1997);
- Hampton v. NRG - $1,000,000 jury verdict in two-plaintiff racial harassment case, plus award of attorney’s fees and costs; settled during appeal.
Sample Pre-Trial Confidential Settlements and Judgments
- $6.8 million judgment in race, gender and sexual orientation discrimination, harassment and retaliation case
- $2.5 million judgment in retaliation case
- $2.5 million settlement in unpaid overtime, meal and rest break violation class action
- $1.490 million settlement in racial harassment and retaliation case
- $950,000 settlement in unpaid overtime, meal and rest break violation class action
- $695,000 settlement in an individual age discrimination case
- $500,000 settlement in sexual harassment and retaliation case
- $400,000 settlement in sexual harassment case
- $395,000 settlement in wrongful termination/breach of contract case
- $290,000 settlement in same-sex sexual harassment and retaliation case
- $250,000 settlement in pregnancy discrimination case
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