New York Times Magazine: The Resegregation of Jefferson County In a New York Times Magazine feature article last week, Judge U.W. Clemon describes his experience working on the first school-desegregation case he ever worked on – a case that has carried over to today: “I never envisioned that I would be fighting in 2017 essentially the…
Cyrus Mehri Announces Bid to Become the NFL Players Association’s Next Executive Director While appearing on HBO’s “Real Sports” with Bryant Gumbel, Cyrus Mehri announced his candidacy for Executive Director of the NFL Players Association. You can view a clip from the interview below: Cyrus Mehri Announces Bid to Head the NFLPA: Real Sports Trailer…
M&S Wins Historic Settlement for Cherokee Nation in Environmental Justice Case Against Volkswagen Group American Indian tribes will receive a $50 million trust account to mitigate pollution from vehicles as part of a historic $14.7 billion settlement from the Volkswagen Group. Mehri & Skalet and co-counsel represented the Cherokee Nation and Eastern Band of Cherokee…
Nationwide Lawsuit Says Walmart Fails to Accommodate Pregnant Workers M&S, along with A Better Balance, National Women’s Law Center and Sedey Harper & Westhoff filed a federal complaint on May 12 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. on behalf of female employees. Two former Walmart employees…
Washington State Court Rules in Favor of Homeowners In February, the Washington Court of Appeals ruled that the state’s consumer protection statute imposes a duty on sellers to be honest and forthright, and rejected a call to impose the burden of discovery on consumers, which would have returned the state to the days of “caveat…
Federal Prison Workers Win $20 Million Settlement in Historic Sexual Harassment Class Action Suit Federal prison workers at the largest federal correctional complex in the country – Coleman, Fla. – won a $20 million settlement in a historic sexual harassment class action suit, which also will bring sweeping changes within the prison. The United States Department of…
Lawsuit Against Travel Ban Executive Last week, Mehri & Skalet filed a case in federal court challenging the Trump Administration’s Executive Order banning nationals from Iran and six other predominantly Muslim nations from entering the U.S. Mehri & Skalet teamed up with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and pro bono counsel, Arnold…
The campaign for president of the United States has frequently been called “the world’s most important job interview.” But as anyone who’s ever felt unfairly passed over despite being eminently qualified for a job can tell you, the hiring process isn’t always fair—and doesn’t always produce the best result. For decades, I’ve fought for equal…
Thanks to the courage of our clients and the hard work of Mehri & Skalet attorneys and co-counsel at Valli, Kane & Vagnini, historic monetary relief has been approved for 225 women who were sales representatives of Medicis, a pharmaceutical company that oversaw policies and practices that discriminated against female field sales employees, impacting their…
M&S Settles with Verizon for Improperly Charging for Installing Jacks In Enerson v. Verizon New Jersey, Mehri & Skalet, working with co-counsel, claimed that Verizon had improperly charged customers on about 300,000 occasions for installing “network interface jacks” — a cost that by tariff should have been borne by Verizon. Following extensive negotiations and discovery,…