Employer Anti-Discrimination Training Program The best employers realize they need to be proactive about creating and maintaining a diverse, collaborative, and equitable work environment. Rather than responding to problems after they occur, smart employers create conditions that prevent problems in the first place. Conditions that are taught through our Employer Anti-Discrimination Training program. We recognize that there is no such thing…
Posted December 3rd, 2019. Click here to read the complaint On December 2, 2019, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya S. Chutkan unsealed a six-year-old qui tam Complaint filed by a whistleblower seeking at least $1.28 billion in damages from Navistar Defense and Navistar International (“Navistar”), U.S. ex. Rel Duquoin Burgess v. Navistar, Case No. 13-cv-01463 (D.DC).…
Posted October 21st, 2019. David Sanford, Kevin Sharp, Jill Sullivan Sanford, H. Vincent McKnight, Jr., and Edward Chapin have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2020, a peer-reviewed guide published by Best Lawyers®. David Sanford, Kevin Sharp, Jill Sullivan Sanford are recognized in the field of “Employment Law – Individuals.” H. Vincent McKnight, Jr.…
OCT. 10, 2019 6:16 PMSAN DIEGO — The owner of a pornographic website, who headed to New Zealand during his ongoing civil trial on claims he tricked young women into making sex videos, was indicted with three others Thursday on federal sex trafficking charges.The indictment was unsealed after three of the defendants linked to the GirlsDoPorn.com website appeared in a…
Posted October 10th, 2019. Read the U.S. Department of Justice press release The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego has just unsealed a federal indictment against Michael Pratt, the owner of the website www.GirlsDoPorn.com. Matthew Wolfe, a friend and close business associate or Pratt’s in various pornography ventures since at least 2008 and Andre Garcia, the primary male actor in…
Posted August 19th, 2019. Click here to read the plaintiffs’ trial brief 22 Women Seeking Damages of More Than $22 Million August 19, 2019, San Diego, CA – The 22 female plaintiffs from across the U.S. suing GirlsDoPorn.com and its owners, operators and associated businesses will have their long-awaited first day in court on today. The bench trial before Hon. Kevin…
A few months ago, I blogged about the considerable evidence of gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the medical profession. Here, I turn to the persistent racial and ethnic disparities among physicians. Like gender disparities, racial and ethnic disparities in medicine manifest in multiple forms—in pay, promotions, and harassment from colleagues and patients. A growing body of evidence suggests that…
Posted August 6th, 2019. Click here to read the Joint Motion to Stay in Light of Agreement In a historic partnership seeking to enact meaningful change, Dartmouth College and the Plaintiffs named in a Title IX class action lawsuit pending in New Hampshire federal court announced today that they have reached a settlement, subject to the approval of the Court.…
The Federal False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq., is probably the best-known whistleblower statute, allowing private plaintiffs to bring suit on behalf of the Government in a qui tam suit. The federal Government also provides other, less well-known avenues for whistleblowers to shed light on corporate wrongdoing in return for a portion of the Government’s recovery if the case…
The media has widely credited the Miami Herald’s “Perversion of Justice” series with “exposing” the unprecedented non-prosecution agreement (“NPA”) in which former U.S. Attorney (and current Trump Labor Secretary) Alexander Acosta agreed to allow billionaire Jeffrey Epstein to avoid federal prosecution for running an international child sex trafficking operation. But the true credit for exposing the shocking details surrounding the “sweetheart” deal belongs…