Employment Law - Civil Rights - Housing Law
Suit filed alleging that New York foster care placement agency discriminated against an employee due to her diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder.
On April 21, 2011, after a two-week trial and 13 hours of deliberations, a jury rendered a verdict finding that a social worker, represented by Margaret McIntyre and John Beranbaum, was discriminated against because of her disability when she was denied a promotion. The case was heard in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York.
The case [...]
Beranbaum Menken LLP is representing Emilie Morse, a former Inflight Supervisor with JetBlue Airways, in federal court in a disability discrimination lawsuit. JetBlue fired Morse in June 2006 pursuant to a policy of administratively terminating any employee who was out on leave for 52 weeks over a two-year period, regardless of whether the employee [...]