Court Allows Title VII Claim of Hostile Work Environment Where Sexual...
In a Federal District Court case decided this year, the Court held that an employee engaged in a sexual relationship with her supervisor, of which other managers had knowledge, could proceed with a...
View ArticleEmployee Alleging Quid Pro Quo Harassment Could Not Show Her Termination Was...
In a Connecticut case decided earlier this year from the Judicial District of Stamford-Norwalk, where a female employee was sexually involved with her employer, her claims of quid pro quo harassment...
View ArticleDenial of Additional Shifts Could Constitutes Adverse Action for Retaliation...
In a U.S. District Court decision earlier this year, that Court found that a restaurant’s denial of an employee’s opportunity to work additional shifts could satisfy the adverse action requirement to...
View ArticleClaim Denied for Not Notifying Her Employer of Harassment
In a case decided earlier this year, the Supreme Court of New York denied a female employee’s complaint for sexual harassment and constructive discharge because she failed to inform her employer of the...
View ArticleFailure to “Check the Box” on EEOC Complaint Bars Employee’s Hostile Work...
In a pro se case decided a few months ago, the United States District Court of Florida granted summary judgment for Target Corp., the employer of the plaintiff, denying the employee’s Title VII claim...
View ArticleFaragher-Ellerth Defense Applied to Protect Employer from Liability for...
In a recent 11th Circuit Court case decided this year, that Court applied the Faragher/Ellerthdefense to bar an employee’s sexual harassment suit under Title VII and state law.[1] There, a male...
View ArticleDeliberate Indifference Required for School to be Liable under Title IX for...
In a New York District decision earlier this year, a student’s cause of action under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act against the Monroe-Woodbury School District was denied because it did not show...
View ArticleEducational Expenses in Divorce
Pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes § 46b-56c, an educational support order is defined as an order requiring a parent to provide support for a child or children to attend, for up to four full...
View ArticleAll Fair Game – Including Lottery Winnings
In the context of a divorce action in Connecticut, Courts are empowered to consider all types of assets, regardless of how those assets were acquired or how they are held, in determining how property...
View ArticleRelocation After Divorce: Legal Burden and Factors
Courts in Connecticut and elsewhere are frequently faced with petitions brought by a relocating parent in the years following a divorce. An existing parenting plan — which presumably provides access...
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