by admin | Jun 4, 2015 | Wrongful Termination
Former police-union president Brian Wurts and the Lakewood Police Department just reached a $150,000 out-of-court settlement over a wrongful termination suit that had been ongoing for much of the past year. Back in 2012, Skeeter Manos, the union's...
by admin | Jun 3, 2015 | Sexual Harassment
A little over two months ago, former venture-capitalist turned interim CEO of Reddit Ellen Pao lost a high-profile sexism suit against investment firm Kleiner Perkins. Pao's suit alleged that over the course of the seven years she spent at the firm, she was...
by admin | Jun 3, 2015 | Personal Injury Law
A recent Amtrak derailment has put pressure on Congress to raise the damages cap for personal injury suits against Amtrak from $200 million to half a billion dollars. The train, which derailed outside of Philadelphia after hitting a 50-mile-per-hour curve while...
by admin | Jun 3, 2015 | Wrongful Termination
A Phoenix, Arizona, judge recently threw out a wrongful termination suit filed by five ex-Child Protective Services employees who were fired last year. According to their former employer, Department of Child Safety (DCS) director Charles Flanagan, the workers...
by admin | May 29, 2015 | Discrimination
After being sued by the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) on allegations of discriminating against female and minority job applicants, Oral Arts Laboratory Inc. has agreed to pay out a settlement of $115,000.Based in...
