Walmart Litigation
Walmart Litigation: Litigation against Walmart Stores has been ongoing since June 2001, in an effort dedicated to ensuring that millions of women who have worked for Walmart over the years receive equal pay and an equal chance at promotion.
Temporary Staffing Agency Litigation
Temporary Employment Staffing Agency Litigation (N.D. Ill.): Cohen Milstein is involved in a series of race-based discrimination class actions in Chicago, representing African-American laborers who allege that their temporary staffing agencies and their factory-clients engaged in a repeated and collusive practice of excluding African Americans from temporary laborer positions.
Ralph Talarico v. Public Partnerships, LLC
Ralph Talarico v. Public Partnerships, LLC (E.D. Pa.): Cohen Milstein is leading a certified Rule 23 class action, consisting of over 15,000 past and present “direct care” homecare workers who brought Pennsylvania state law claims, and an opt-in class of more than 4,900 past and present homecare workers who have brought FLSA claims, for denied overtime wages against Public Partnerships, LLC (PPL). Homecare workers play a critical role in the care of individuals with disabilities. The case involves novel joint employer issues.
Harris v. Medical Transportation Management, Inc.
Harris, et al. v. Medical Transportation Management, Inc. (D.D.C.): Cohen Milstein represents non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) drivers in a certified class action alleging that their employer, Medical Transportation Management, Inc. (MTM), knowingly and willfully failed to pay proper wages to its NEMT drivers across Washington, D.C. under federal and District of Columbia law. This lawsuit seeks to hold MTM liable as a joint employer of the drivers.
Connecticut Fair Housing Center, et al. v. CoreLogic Rental Property Solutions
Connecticut Fair Housing Center, et al. v. CoreLogic Rental Property Solutions (D. Conn.): Cohen Milstein is partnering with Connecticut Fair Housing Center and the National Housing Law Project in the representation of Carmen Arroyo, as well as the Connecticut Fair Housing Center itself, in a cutting-edge legal challenge to CoreLogic’s algorithmic background check system which allegedly discriminates against African Americans and Latinos seeking rental housing in violation of the Fair Housing Act. Because of the novel artificial intelligence (AI)-related discrimination claims, the case has been identified as one of Law360’s “3 Real Estate Cases to Watch in 2022.”
Center for Reproductive Rights v. Department of Health and Human Services
Center for Reproductive Rights v. Department of Health and Human Services (D.D.C.): On October 15, 2019, Cohen Milstein, on behalf of the Center for Reproductive Rights, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) for failing to produce records related to the Office for Civil Rights’ operations and enforcement of civil rights laws after two Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests went effectively unanswered.
Ndugga v. Bloomberg, L.P.
Ndugga v. Bloomberg, L.P. (S.D.N.Y.): Cohen Milstein represents a putative class of women who work or worked as reporters, producers, and editors at Bloomberg Media, and who allege that they were subjected to gender-based pay and promotion discrimination at the company.
Lee, et al. v. Trump, et al.
Thompson, et al. v. Trump, et al. (D.D.C.): In partnership with the NAACP, Cohen Milstein is representing members of Congress in a novel civil rights lawsuit filed under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 against Donald J. Trump, in his personal capacity, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, alleging that they conspired to prevent members of Congress from carrying out their constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 election on January 6, 2021. The case addresses novel questions of presidential immunity and the First Amendment. On December 1, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decided that President Trump is not entitled to official-act immunity for his actions leading up to and on January 6 as alleged in the complaint, since he was acting as an office-seeker, not an officeholder.
Tellis et al. v. LeBlanc et al.
Tellis et al. v. LeBlanc et al. (W.D. La.): Cohen Milstein is working with Disability Rights Louisiana and the ACLU of Louisiana in a certified class action against the Louisiana Department of Corrections and David Wade Correctional Center on behalf of DWCC inmates, who allege that DWCC’s practice of “extended lockdown” of prisoners violates the First and Eighth of the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Rehabilitation Act.