Employment Law - Civil Rights - Housing Law
On April 27, 2009, United States District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin held that Christine Anderson, an attorney working six years for the State of New York’s Appellate Division, First Department’s Departmental Disciplinary Committee (DDC), may proceed to trial with her whistleblowing claim that she was fired in retaliation for claiming that her superiors were “whitewashing” [...]
The Supreme Court this week issued a decision in 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett that takes away the right of union members to bring statutory claims, such as Title VII or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, against their employers in court, if their collective bargaining agreement says that those claims must be arbitrated. [...]
Today’s New York Law Journal published on its first page the following article about one of BMBB’s cases, Anderson v. New York State et al:
New York state, in a motion for summary judgment filed last week, portrayed an attorney who sought $10 million damages for her firing by the First Department’s Departmental Disciplinary Committee as [...]