She wanted to report to the Cobb County Police Department that her car had been damaged a week earlier. Now, Sierra Castle is suing Cobb County, Sheriff Neil Warren, and Col. Janet Price over her experience at the Cobb County jail. In Colorado, after Lindsay Saunders-Velez was sexually harassed and assaulted in a male prison, she sued the state Department of Corrections for failing to protect …
A group of more than 60 female Google employees are considering bringing a class action lawsuit against the company for sexism and pay disparities, it has been reported. The action comes after a memo was leaked at the weekend from a male software engineer, which claimed that “biological differences” were behind the fact that more men worked in …
The founders of Silicon Valley startup UploadVR landed on Forbes’ coveted 30 under 30 list this year. And now, they’ve reached another tech world milestone—being sued for rampant sexual harassment. The details of the lawsuit describe a company that seems to have looked at other startup’s workplace environments and decided they just weren’t hostile enough.
Executives and managers at Sterling Jewelers the parent company of Kay Jewelers and Jared the Galleria of Jewelry are accused of creating a work environment in which sexual harassment and discrimination against women went nearly unchecked. That’s according to 1,300 pages of sworn testimony from current and former employees released Sunday and obtained by The Washington Post. The …
A Dominican woman wrongly classified as a man and held with male inmates for 10 hours in a Miami prison three years ago has filed a civil rights lawsuit. Fior Pichardo de Veloz was arrested at a Miami airport in November of 2013 on what lawyers say was a decades-old drug charge that was eventually dismissed. She was initially booked as a female but medical staff reclassified her as a male …
Female lawyers are taking their fight for equal pay to court. Kerrie L. Campbell, a partner at big-name law firm Chadbourne & Parke, filed a $100 million class action lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of 26 current and former female partners at the firm, alleging that female partners receive less compensation than their male counterparts, the New York Times reported. Campbell’s suit is the latest …
Law.com reports that a Chadbourne & Parke litigation partner, Kerrie Campbell, has filed a $100 million class action lawsuit against the firm on behalf of current and former female partners, alleging gender discrimination: The suit alleges that female partners have been excluded from positions with decision-making authority, and help;
A male student has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the University of Colorado claiming the college discriminated against him during a sexual assault investigation that ultimately led to his expulsion. The male student, identified in court documents only as John Doe, denies allegations that he sexually assaulted two female CU students and claims in the lawsuit that CU’s student- …
A former Scranton housing inspector has appealed a federal judge’s ruling that dismissed her political retaliation and gender discrimination lawsuit. Patricia Jennings-Fowler contends U.S. District Judge Malachy Mannion erred when he ruled she failed to present sufficient evidence to support her claims. Ms. Jennings-Fowler had worked for the city in various capacities since 2009.
There’s mounting evidence suggesting that student evaluations of teaching are unreliable. But are these evaluations, commonly referred to as SET, so bad that they’re actually better at gauging students’ gender bias and grade expectations than they are at measuring teaching effectiveness? A new paper argues that’s the case, and that evaluations are biased against female instructors in particular …