Julia Crowley-Farenga, a former intern at SpaceX, has claimed that she was sexually harassed over a period of three summers. Crowley-Farenga, who is now a NASA engineer, alleges in her California labor lawsuit that she was retaliated against after reporting the sexual...
The ex-captain at High Desert State Prison has pleaded no contest to harassment and assault charges for inappropriately touching a female colleague while still on the job. Christopher Lewis, who used to be a captain at the Northern California prison, has been placed...
#IAmVanessaGuillén Bill Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén’s tragic death and disappearance reflect a larger problem in the military – a culture where sexual harassment and assault are swept under the rug. After the young soldier went missing in April, thousands of...
The Supreme Court delivered a blow to religious employees around the nation by holding that the “ministerial exception” under the First Amendment bars employment-discrimination claims by Catholic school teachers against their employers. In two recent cases from...
Following weeks of protests rising after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th, the pressure put on by protesters on governments to scale back the use of force by police officers on civilians and create better systems of accountability have resulted in...
Federal Law Protects LGBTQIA Workers from Discrimination This Pride Month, we set out to celebrate recent achievements in employment law and our nation’s progress in protecting LGBTQIA+ employees. At the beginning of June, half of the LGBTQ population in the US lived...
Big Law’s Seyfarth Shaw, along with a former partner of the firm, have been sued by Natalie Operstein, a linguistics professor at UCLA, for $24 million in compensatory damages and additional punitive damages. Operstein filed the suit over the firm’s investigation of...
US Attorney Nick Hanna, the top federal prosecutor in Southern California, has called upon people who have experienced or witnessed sexual harassment by a property manager, landlord, maintenance worker, or others with control over housing to report the incident to the...
Since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, millions of people around the world have participated in protests against racism and the way police officers have treated black people in the US and other places. Many employers have issued statements to show their...
A number of school districts in California as well as the University of Southern California are reporting a spike in online sexual harassment and discriminatory behavior as they transition to stay-at-home learning via digital platforms and video conferencing. Porn...