Tag: Retaliation

Insights on Complex Legal Challenges

Strategic perspectives on civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, retaliation, and institutional accountability.

BlogNov 9, 2011

A Black Hotel Cook Alleges Further Retaliation When Another Employee Donned A White Cone Shaped Article On His Head Symbolizing the Ku Klux Klan

New York Civil Rights Attorney Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., alleges in a $35 million federal lawsuit that The Roger Smith...

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Abuse of State PowerNov 3, 2011

Black Employee Subjected to Makeshift Dummy ‘Hanging’ From A Beam

Islip officials are investigating a Halloween prank in which a town employee hung a masked dummy from a roof beam at a Central Islip...

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BlogOct 27, 2011

A Black Hotel Cook Sues Employer Midtown Hotel for $25 Million Dollars

Julius Jones says working at The Roger Smith Hotel in Midtown Manhattan is no picnic. Jones, who is African American, said that he started...

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Abuse of State PowerOct 10, 2011

NYPD cop sued for sexual harassment files SLAPP suit against accuser for $3M claiming defamation

After being accused of sexual harassment by my client Nelson Fernandez, Deputy Inspector Thomas Connolly files a SLAPP suit aka Strategic Lawsuit Against Public...

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Abuse of State PowerSep 8, 2011

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...

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Abuse of State PowerJun 30, 2011

Hempstead Police Official: I’m being forced to quit

Willie R. Dixon, until recently the second-in-command of Hempstead Village’s police department, plans to retire on July 22 — the result, he says, of...

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Abuse of State PowerJun 25, 2011

NYPD Cop Sues Department for $175 Million Dollars

An NYPD officer claims in a lawsuit that he may be forced to retire due to a hand injury he sustained during a brutal...

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Abuse of State PowerJun 6, 2011

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,...

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Abuse of State PowerJun 2, 2011

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...

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