Garden City, NY
Discrimination Lawyer at Garden City, NY
Practice Areas: Discrimination, Civil Rights ... +3 more
OUTCOME: $29.9 million dollar settlement
FDNY Fire Protection Inspectors and their union, Local 2507, alleged that NYC created different pay scales for its Fire Protection Inspectors - 70% of whom are people of color –and Building Inspectors ... - who are predominately white. The underlying claim was that the duties for both position were very similar and therefore the pay disparity was discriminatory.
OUTCOME: Settlement $31.5 Million
Assistant store managers brought a class action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New York labor law alleging they were improperly classified as exempt and improperly denied overtime. The ... 1,900 current and former assistant store managers will each receive a payment based on the number of weeks, among other factors, they worked at one or more of Defendants' stores.
OUTCOME: Settlement $9.97 million.
Parking production assistants sued CBS for allegedly not paying sufficient overtime hours for the work they did securing sets, lots, streets and parking on production sites throughout New York for TV s ... hows. The plaintiffs allege that they worked at production sites for an average of 50 to 80 hours per week, if not more, but were not paid the correct overtime for the hours worked over 40.
OUTCOME: $7.15 million dollar settlement
Gender Discrimination claims against Pharmaceutical company resulting in a $7,150,000.00 settlement for a class of 225 women.
OUTCOME: $4 million dollar settlement
Mass race discrimination action. EEOC issued a finding of class-wide discrimination against Defendant and joined our previously filed lawsuit.
OUTCOME: $400,000.00 verdict for Plaintiffs
Sexual Harassment Claims and Trial
OUTCOME: $4.75 million dollar settlement
FLSA misclassification case for claims of unpaid overtime during training by 4,018 combined class members
OUTCOME: $2.975 million dollar settlement
Wage and Hour Misclassification Class Action brought under the FLSA and the NYLL.
OUTCOME: $2.2 million dollar settlement
False Claims Act ("FCA") lawsuit regarding Medicare. Valli Kane & Vagnini LLP represented the relator
OUTCOME: $4 million dollar verdict for Plaintiffs
Race Harassment and Discrimination Mass Action trial and settlement