Jury Orders Drugmaker to Pay Damages for Discrimination
NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) - Drugmaker Novartis AG must pay $250 million in punitive damages for discriminating against thousands of female sales representatives over pay, promotion and pregnancy, a U.S. jury ruled on Wednesday.
Lawyers for about 5,600 current and former women employees covered by the 2004 class action lawsuit said it was the largest [...]
School Sued Over Sex Abuse of Teen Student
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.-The parents of a 16-year-old girl have sued an Easthampton private school, claiming she was sexually assaulted by a teacher.
The plaintiffs are not named in the lawsuit last week against The Williston Northampton School, three administrators and former biology teacher Dennis P. Ryan. It does not specify damages.
The lawsuit claims Ryan built a relationship [...]
Judges OK Class-Action Suit Against Wal-Mart
In a closely watched case, a sharply divided federal appeals court on Monday ruled 6-5 that a sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart could proceed as a class action for more than a million women. The suit is the biggest employment discrimination case in the nation’s history.
After a decade of pretrial maneuvering, the decision by the [...]
Tulsa to Settle Lawsuit Against 3 Police Officers
A $150,000 settlement has been reached between the city of Tulsa and a local family who had accused three officers of severely beating their 16-year-old African-American son. The lawsuit accuses the officers of “racial discrimination and using excessive force” against the boy for no reason. The lawsuit states that the boy suffered damaged vision on [...]
Micha Star Liberty to Serve Third Term on State Bar Board of Governors
Micha Star Liberty was recently elected to serve an unprecedented third one-year term on the California State Bar Board of Governors as the California Young Lawyers Association representative.
Settlement Approved in NY Malpractice Lawsuit
The New York Supreme Court has approved a $5.2 million settlement in a malpractice lawsuit over the death of a woman in child birth from internal bleeding after a poorly performed Caesarean procedure. In September 2007, Diane McCable went to Albany Medical Center Hospital in labor. After ten hours, Dr. Cheryl Burack decided she needed [...]
Micha Star Liberty Quoted in Legal Publication
A recent publication in The Recorder discussed how Legislature may move that the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California be appointed by politicians rather than elected by members of the profession.
Micha Star Liberty, who represents the California Young Lawyers Association on the Board, was quoted as saying “This is an idea [...]
Former School Bus Driver Files Lawsuit Against Schools
ATLANTA - A former Cobb County school bus driver claims she was fired for speaking publicly at board of education meetings.
Wanda Smith, a district driver for 21 years, says her right to free speech was violated in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. Smith was terminated in April 2009. She had been [...]
Micha Star Liberty Speaks at CAOC’s Annual Tahoe Ski Seminar
Micha Star Liberty was honored to speak at this past weekend’s Consumer Attorneys of California continuing education seminar in Lake Tahoe on the topic of depositions.
Former College Athlete Files Racial Profiling Suit
A former basketball player at the University of San Diego has filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming the university and its campus security staff engaged in racial discrimination and racial profiling. In his lawsuit, Trumaine Johnson claims that he and many other African-America athletes have been stopped while walking or driving and subjected to [...]
