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Mehri & Skalet in the News

At Mehri & Skalet, our class actions and projects to advance social justice don’t just result in excellent results for our clients: They have an impact on American society, and often generate significant press coverage. Here, a selection of recent coverage. For media coverage, case documents and summaries of by case, see our Results page.

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Jeb White, “The Hanford Site Nuclear Cleanup Case,” Fraud in America Podcast, August 18, 2021.
Rebecca McCray, “An Anti-Opioid Panic Left Prisoners in Needless, Agonizing Pain,” The Daily Beast, August 10, 2021.
Marina Villeneuve, “Former prison doctor sues, blasts state’s painkiller policy, The Associated Press, July 14, 2021.
Nina Molina, “More than 500 women ask to join sex harassment suit against Cook County Jail, Sheriff Dart’s office,” Chicago Sun-Times, July 8, 2021.
Theresa Vargas, “How the meticulous bookkeeping of two sisters led to reparations for Black people across the country,” Washington Post, June 30, 2021.
Sameer Rao, “How Class Action Settlement Funded Conn. Orgs’ Equity Work,” Law360, June 11, 2021.
Luke Creasy, “WV Public Schools Seek to Recover Costs Created by Opioid Crisis,” Charleston Gazette-Mail, May 5, 2021.
Cyrus Mehri, “I Sued the Bachelor for Race Discrimination Nearly a Decade Ago: Behind the Scenes in The Bachelor’s Pattern of Exclusion,” Medium, March 16, 2021.

Cyrus Mehri, “How to expand diversity in the workplace,” Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2021.
Karen Gabay, “US Election 2020,” BBC Radio, November 18, 2020.
Ezra Bronstein, “Cos. Should Have To Notify Workers Of Whistleblower Rights,” Law360, October 2, 2020.
Ellen Eardley, “Viewpoint: Diversity Training Isn’t ‘Anti-American Propaganda’; Trump’s Directive Is,” Government Executive, September 10, 2020.
Cyrus Mehri, Joshua Karsh, and U. W. Clemon, “The Nation’s First Civil-Rights Law Needs to Be Fixed,” The Atlantic, August 7, 2020.
Michael Lieder, “Congress Must Bolster Bias Remedies After Comcast Ruling,” Law360, April 1, 2020.
Richard Condit and Michael Lieder, “Trump’s Purge of the Vindmans Violates the Constitution and Whistleblower Laws,” Medium, February 14, 2020.
Cyrus Mehri, “Why Giuliani and Trump Can’t Hide Behind Attorney-Client Privilege,” POLITICO, October 3, 2019.
Cyrus Mehri, “The Real Reason We’re More Likely to Elect a Woman in 2020: Studies tell us there’s a huge difference between having just one versus multiple women competing for a job,” POLITICO Magazine, June 21, 2019.
Cyrus Mehri, “Rooney Rule is Working to Bridge the NFL’s Racial Divide,” The Undefeated, February 12, 2019.

Natalie Kitroeff and Jessica Greenberg, “Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies,” New York Times, February 8, 2019.
Jason Reid, “NFL creates list to strengthen Rooney Rule,” ABC News, December 12, 2018.
Mark Maske, “NFL toughens its Rooney Rule standards for interviewing head coaching candidates,” The Washington Post, December 12, 2018.
Paul Myerbrg, “Lack of black head coaches in major college football still crucial issue for universities,” USA Today, September 27, 2018.
Andrew Selsky, “Oregon senator sues to obtain Kavanaugh papers, vote delay,” The Associated Press, September 26, 2018.
Cyrus Mehri and Joanna Wasik, “American tradition is at odds with the Supreme Court’s travel ban decision,” The Hill, June 28, 2018.
Law360, “Walmart Must Face Pregnancy Discrimination Class Action,” Law360, March 29, 2018.
Pamela Coukos & Cyrus Mehri, “Can “Inclusion Waivers” Create More Equal Opportunity in Hollywood?,” Working IDEAL, March 5, 2018.
Elissa Strauss, “Fired for being pregnant: Another kind of discrimination women face at work,” CNN, February 1, 2018.
Karen Gabay, “FA brings in Rooney Rule,” BCC, January 28, 2018.

Michael David Smith, “Fritz Pollard Alliance strongly disagrees with NFL clearing Raiders on Rooney Rule,” NBC Sports, January 19, 2018.
Matias Grez and Zayn Nabbi, “Will Rooney Rule adoption change English football?,” CNN, January 12, 2018.
Anne Branigin, “Black Employees File Civil Rights Lawsuit Against NYC Fire Department, Say Racism Within FDNY Is a ‘Disease’,” The Root, December 7, 2017.
Colin Moynihan, “Black Employees Accuse Fire Department of Discrimination,” The New York Times, December 6, 2017.
Deepti Hajela, “New York fire department faces another discrimination case,” The Associated Press, December 6, 2017.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, “The Resegregation of Jefferson County,” New York Times, September 6, 2017.
Daniel Wiessner, “Workers say Wal-Mart discriminated against thousands of pregnant women,” Reuters, May 17, 2017.
Alexander Nazaryan, “Whites Only: School Segregation Is Back, From Birmingham to San Francisco,” Newsweek, May 2, 2017.
Eric Yoder, “Back pay awarded because of 2013 government shutdown,” The Washington Post, February 17, 2017.
Law360, “Feds Owe Employees Who Worked Through Shutdown: Court,” Law360, February 17, 2017.

Hanna Kozlowska, “Female prison workers, harassed by inmates and ignored by bosses, stood up for their rights—and won,” Quartz, February 16, 2017.
Steven Nelson, “Judge Orders Double Pay for Thousands of Federal Workers Affected By 2013 Shutdown,” U.S. News,February 16, 2017.
Mike Schneider, “Harassed female workers at federal prison reach settlement,” The Associated Press, February 13, 2017.
Cyrus Mehri, “Democrats could have won the US election if they’d learned from the struggle for equal opportunity,” Quartz (December 6, 2016).
Chat With A Lawyer, “Mehri & Skalet Richard Condit – Protecting Whistleblowers,” Chat With A Lawyer, August 28, 2016.
Roger Goodell, “The NFL’s Rooney Rule, explained,” Penn Live, February 5, 2016.
Robert Pear, Obama Administration Urges States to Cut Health Insurers’ Requests for Big Rate Increases, The New York Times, August 3, 2015.
Julie Rovner, HHS Pushes States To Negotiate Lower Obamacare Rates, PBS, July 23, 2015.
Martha C. White, Widow’s Reverse Mortgage ‘Nightmare’ Underscores Lifeline’s Risks. NBC News, July 2, 2015.
Alan Siegel, How A Multiple-Choice Test Became A Fixture Of The NFL Draft, FiveThirtyEight Sports, April 30, 2015.

Trey Garrison, Will grandma get run over by HUD’s reverse mortgage policy?, Housing Wire, March 12, 2015.
Alex Wayne, Obamacare May Get More Time for a Solution, Justice Alito Says, Bloomberg, March 4, 2015.
Ted Thornhill, Former ‘The Young And The Restless’ star Victoria Rowell sues CBS and Sony claiming racial discrimination after she was ‘blackballed’ from the show, Daily Mail, February 14, 2015.
Emily Yahr, Soap star Victoria Rowell wants her ‘Young and the Restless’ job back, sues CBS, Sony for discrimination, Washington Post, February 13, 2015.
Rick Cohen, Fritz Pollard Alliance Rips Snyder’s Washington NFL Team on MLK Day, Non-Profit Quarterly, January 21, 2015.
Mike Florio, Fritz Pollard Alliance seeking answers on Tannenbaum hire, NBC Sports, January 10, 2015.
Robert Pear, Health Law Recasts Insurers as Obama Allies, The New York Times, November 17, 2014.
Jay Angoff and Ronan Farrow, Obamacare: The Gruber effect, MSNBC, November 14, 2014.
Sara Ganim, Former UNC athlete sues school over academic scandal, CNN, November 10, 2014.
Anna Kessel, Time ripe for Rooney Rule talks with numbers of black managers at low, Guardian, November 1, 2014.

Simon Chadwick, Football Needs a ‘Rooney Rule’ to Tackle Institutional Racism, iSportConnect, October 17, 2014.
Richard Conway, ‘Rooney Rule’: Football has nothing to lose, says Dan Rooney, BBC Sport, October 3, 2014.
Heather Hollingsworth, Consumer Group Sues Over Missouri Insurance Rates, Associated Press, October 1, 2014.
Jason Millman, HHS is hiding health insurance rate hikes, former official charges, Washington Post, October 1, 2014.
Bryce Covert, Pregnant Walmart Worker Alleges Discrimination and Unfair Firing, ThinkProgress, September 25, 2014.
Michelle Singletary, Reverse mortgages must be understood to avoid regrets, The Washington Post, September 23, 2014.
Bryce Covert, Pregnant Worker: This is How Walmart Treated Me. ThinkProgress, August 4, 2014.
Alex Wayne, Insurers Joining More Obamacare Exchanges Next Year. Bloomberg, May 17, 2014.
Jay Angoff on Republican opposition to Obamacare. MSNBC, May 10, 2014.
Michael Martin, Does New Hiring Tool Aid Diversity or Discrimination? NPR, May 1, 2014.

Simon Stone, Ade Akinbiyi working to buck trend on black managers in England. BBC, April 15, 2014.
Irin Carmon, Why the GOP is wrong about the pay gap. MSNBC.com, April 8, 2014.
Tara Bahrampour, Surviving spouses sue HUD over reverse mortgage rules that leave them in the cold. The Washington Post, February 27, 2014.
Sy Mukherjee, Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Missouri’s Restrictions On Obamacare Navigators. ThinkProgress, January 23, 2014.
Julie Rovner, Nonprofits Challenge Missouri Licensing Law For Insurance Guides. NPR, December 3, 2013.
Andrew Zajac, Reverse-Mortgage Rule on Surviving Spouse Tossed by Judge. Bloomberg, October 1, 2013.
Nick Timiraos, Federal Reverse-Mortgage Program Takes a Hit in Ruling. Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2013.