Sexual Harassment in the Agricultural Industry
Nearly 25% of all U.S. farm workers are women. Many if not most of these women are immigrants, many of them undocumented. They help...
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Insights on Complex Legal Challenges
Strategic perspectives on civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, retaliation, and institutional accountability.
Violations of the Equal Pay Act
On June 10th 1963, President John F Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, to prohibit discrimination “on account of sex in the...
Read More ›NYPD Lawyer Says She Was Denied Promotion Due to Pregnancy
THE NYPD is being sued by one of its own lawyers claiming she lost out on a promised promotion because she was pregnant. “Why...
Read More ›School for scandal
Medgar Evers College is a real-life animal house. The dean of freshman studies said yesterday she was the target of a sexual-harassment campaign. Dean...
Read More ›NYPD Sergeant Alleges Male on Male Sexual Harassment
A NYPD sergeant has filed a complaint that claims he’s being sexually harassed by his male boss. Sgt. Nelson Fernandez, a nine-year NYPD veteran,...
Read More ›NYPD Cop Alleges Boss Sexually Harassed Her
A city cop claims a lieutenant texted her a photo of his penis and then put her on a foot post after she turned...
Read More ›NYPD Officer Sues Counterterrorism Chief Alleging Sexual Harassment
A married NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau chief carried on multiple affairs with female subordinates at a Queens precinct while sexually terrorizing a female cop who...
Read More ›Retired NYPD Narcotics Detective called a ‘Nappy-Headed Ho’ Settles Lawsuit Against the City for $130K
A former NYPD narcotics detective called a “nappy-headed ho” by her sergeant will receive $130,000 from the city to settle her federal suit. The...
Read More ›Debra Lawson v. The City of New York, et al. 10 cv 5238
Debra Lawson alleges that working as an undercover in the NYPD Organized Crime Control Bureau’s Firearm Suppression Unit her civil rights were violated and...
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