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UPS Settles Disability Discrimination Lawsuit for $2M

- August 14, 2017

To settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, UPS has “agreed to pay a total of $2 million to nearly 90 current and former employees” across the country. The lawsuit was first filed on behalf of the employees by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) back in 2009, and alleged UPS had “violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it failed to provide employees with reasonable accommodations and maintained an ‘inflexible’ leave policy that automatically fired employees when they reached 12 months of leave, without an interactive process.”

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$825K Settlement Ends Class Action Lawsuit Against Restaurant

- August 10, 2017

A class action lawsuit was recently settled between Water Street Brewery and many of its servers for $825,000. The lawsuit itself was filed back in November of 2016 by Angela Brandt when she claimed Water Street Brewery was in violation of “state and federal wage-and-hour laws at each of the company’s four locations.” According to Brandt, a former server, the brewery’s servers “had not been paid minimum wage because of various payroll practices, including requiring servers to share tips with certain employees and pay for discarded coasters, discarded silverware and broken dishes from their tips.” Additionally, the lawsuit also alleges “that servers did not receive overtime when they worked more than 40 hours per week.”

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Discrimination Lawsuit Against Time Warner Networks Dismissed

- August 10, 2017

We’ve heard a lot this year about discrimination allegations being brought against major news networks. From gender and racial discrimination and sexual abuse allegations against Fox News to racial discrimination allegations against CNN, one can’t help but wonder what the ruling will be in any of the lawsuits. Well, the wait is over. In one particular case against Time Warner networks CNN and TBS, a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination was dismissed earlier this week “for a lack of factual evidence.”

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Columbia University Settles Lawsuit with Former Student Accused of Rape

- August 9, 2017

The lawsuit between Paul Nungesser and Columbia University has finally been settled. Nungesser, a former student of the university, filed a lawsuit against Columbia back in 2015 on allegations that the “university supported an outrageous display of harassment and defamation after fellow student Emma Sulkowicz held protests around campus where people openly called him a rapist.” Before the recent settlement was announced, the suit had been dismissed on two separate occasions.

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