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An EEOC judge has given the green light to a trial for a Southworth PC client in a disability discrimination case. Usually in EEOC cases, many Agency’s will file a motion for summary judgment at the hearing stage after discovery is completed. This motion argues that...
Recently, federal employment attorneys Shaun Southworth and Georgia Lawrence secured a victory before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Office of Federal Operations. In the case, the Agency had dismissed the entirely of our client’s disability...
At the beginning of November, Southworth PC learned it had saved another federal employee’s career. After our federal employment attorneys Shaun Southworth and Jesse Kelly tried the case before the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Board found the Agency’s removal...
A judge before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently green lighted a trial--or as we call it in the federal sector, a hearing--denying a motion by the Agency for a decision without a hearing. The judge found there were genuine issues of material facts...
Southworth PC recently settled a sexual harassment and reprisal case against a large federal agency. The allegations were that a male supervisor treated women and men differently, letting the men do less and giving the men preferential treatment compared to the women....
Earlier this year, a large federal agency proposed the removal of our client. After receiving the proposed removal, our client contacted our federal employment attorneys with much experience in federal careers defense. Senior Associate Jesse Kelly worked with our...
Recently a smaller federal agency dismissed our client’s claims without justification. Our federal employment attorneys challenged the wrongful action before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Office of Federal Operations and our client has prevailed in...
Today, the Supreme Court held that an employer violates Title VII when it intentionally fires an individual employee "based in part on sex" because "homosexuality and transgender status are inextricably bound up with sex." No less, intentional discrimination based on...
Many federal employees know that their medical records have certain protections and certain information should only be shared in limited circumstances. When that information is improperly disclosed or maintained, the federal employees have a cause of action against...
“The statute does not say that ‘it is unlawful to take personnel actions that are based on age;' it says that ‘personnel actions… shall be made free from any discrimination based on age'....As a result, age must be a but-for cause of discrimination — that is, of...