Phoebe Wolfe is an associate in Cohen Milstein Civil Rights & Employment practice, where she focuses on complex litigation challenging discrimination in employment and housing.
Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Phoebe was a Litigation Fellow at the National Women’s Law Center, where she worked on litigation and amicus briefs aimed at advancing the Center’s mission across intersecting legal issues that affect women, particularly in the workplace. She also has experience as a Public Interest Fellow at Tycko & Zavareei LLP, a class action plaintiffs law firm. As part of her fellowship, Phoebe spent several months at Public Justice, one of the nation’s foremost plaintiff advocacy and litigation organizations.
During law school, Phoebe was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and senior editor of the Columbia Law Review.
- New York
- District of Columbia
- Columbia Law School, J.D., 2018
- William E. Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, B.A., 2015
- Litigation Fellow, National Women’s Law Center (2020 – 2022)
- Public Interest Fellow, Tycko & Zavareei LLP (2018 – 2020)
Current Cases
Louis, et al. v. SafeRent Solutions, et al.
Louis, et al. v. SafeRent Solutions (D. Mass.): Cohen Milstein is representing individual plaintiffs and the Community Action Agency of Somerville against SafeRent Solutions (formerly known as CoreLogic), in a Fair Housing Act violation lawsuit. Plaintiffs allege that SafeRent, which provides tenant screening services to landlords and property owners, has been violating the FHA and related state laws because its tenant screening software algorithm disproportionately gives low scores to Black and Hispanic rental applicants who use federally funded housing vouchers, causing them to be denied housing. On January 9, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development filed a statement of interest in this case.
Rasmussen, et al. v. The Walt Disney Company, et al.
Rasmussen, et al. v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. (Cal. Sup., L.A. Cnty.): Cohen Milstein is representing a certified class of current and former female employees of The Walt Disney Company and all Disney subsidiaries in gender pay equity dispute. Plaintiffs allege that Disney pays women workers in California tens of thousands of dollars less than their male counterparts in violation of California’s Equal Pay Act.
U.S. Customs & Border Protection Agency Pregnancy Discrimination Litigation
Gabaldon, et al. V. Mayorkas, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (EEOC): Cohen Milstein represents U.S. Customs and Border agents in a putative class action against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, in which plaintiffs claim that the agency and its implementation of the temporary light duty policies discriminate against pregnant agents in violation of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.
Past Cases
Cynthia Allen, et al. v. AT&T Mobility Services LLC
Cynthia Allen, et al. v. AT&T Mobility Services LLC, Case (N.D. Ga.): Cohen Milstein represented plaintiffs in a putative Title VII employment discrimination class action against AT&T Mobility LLC (AT&T) for violating the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The lawsuit also included individual Title VII, Americans with Disabilities Act, and Family and Medical Leave Act claims on behalf of the named plaintiff.
April 30, 2024
Rental Applicants Reach $2.28M Settlement Agreement for Discriminatory AI-Powered Screening Tool
“The changes SafeRent has agreed to make are key to ensuring the original intention of the nation’s voucher programs, helping to erase historic discrimination in the housing markets,” said Brian Corman, a partner at Cohen Milstein who leads the firm’s fair housing litigation efforts and helped negotiate the settlement. What You Need to Know Rental […]
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April 26, 2024
Rental Applicants Using Housing Vouchers Settle Ground-Breaking Discrimination Class Action Against SafeRent Solutions
On April 25, 2024, the United States District Court of Massachusetts allowed a $2.275 million settlement on behalf of Massachusetts housing voucher recipients to move forward, certifying the settlement classes and directing notice to be sent to class members. The Court will hold a final approval hearing in November. The settlement, if finally approved, will resolve a lawsuit against SafeRent Solutions, a national tenant screening provider formerly known as CoreLogic Rental Property Solutions, claiming that SafeRent’s algorithmic tenant screening program (the “SafeRent Score”) disproportionately harmed housing voucher recipients, including Black and Hispanic individuals, under Massachusetts law protecting individuals based on their source of income and race. In July 2023, the Court denied SafeRent’s motion to dismiss the Plaintiffs’ Fair Housing Act (FHA) and Massachusetts Discrimination Law claims.
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December 15, 2023
Cohen Milstein Team Among Legal Lions of the Week
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Andrus Anderson LLP, and Goldstein Borgen Dardarian & Ho made Law360’s Legal Lions of the Week list after a California state judge on Dec. 8 certified a class of at least 8,900 women who say The Walt Disney Co. paid them less than their male colleagues, rejecting Disney’s argument […]
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December 11, 2023
Disney Employees Secure Class Certification in Gender Pay Class Action
For Immediate Release Disney Employees Secure Class Certification in Gender Pay Class Action Judge also grants plaintiffs’ request to unseal discovery materials LOS ANGELES, CA – The Honorable Elihu M. Berle of the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles granted in part plaintiffs’ motion for class certification in Rasmussen, et […]
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July 4, 2023
Disney Shorted Women Middle Managers $150M, Workers Say
The Walt Disney Co. has paid its women employees in middle management at least $150 million less than men in substantially similar positions, according to a lawsuit filed by a group of current and former Disney employees, who on Friday asked a Los Angeles judge for class treatment. The women, who first filed the proposed […]
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