September 27, 2022, Palo Alto, CA – today announced the opening of a new office in Palo Alto, the firm’s eighth location nationwide, third office in California, and second new office this year. Long a top-rated law firm in the Bay Area, Sanford Heisler is the first exclusively plaintiff-side law firm with a focus on civil rights, social justice, and…
Approximately 4.4% of adults in the United States have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ADHD can present serious obstacles for employees in the workplace and students in public schools. The symptoms include inattention, impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, and low frustration tolerance. But even where individuals are able to successfully manage their ADHD, they can face discrimination in the form of stigma…
H. Vincent McKnight Jr., Co-Managing Partner of Washington office, has been recognized by 2023’s Best Lawyers in America in two categories—Commercial Litigation and Qui Tam Law. Since 2008, McKnight, who co-chairs Whistleblower and Qui Tam practice, has received “Recognition,” Best Lawyers’ highest status, in the category of Commercial Litigation. Now he adds Qui Tam Law to that distinguished record. “I’m…
It is no secret that there is a long, well-publicized history of sexual assaults and sexual harassment (SASH) within the maritime industry. In fact, in 2016 and again in November 2021, due to widespread incidents of SASH aboard maritime vessels, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) temporarily halted its Sea Year program – a program in which students are placed…
The not-so-recent shift to the digital environment has attracted new groups of miscreants: hackers that steal money in cyberspace, and companies that deceive consumers and investors by manipulating pricing systems that lack transparency. Both groups use digital fraud to their advantage. Digital fraud is caused by both external and internal sources: External fraud is often based on the exploitation of…
Rarely when faced with an employee’s opposition to discrimination or other unlawful activity do employers fire the employee by telling them, “I am firing you because of your opposition to my unlawful activity.” Employers are usually subtler when they want to stop employees from speaking up. For example, they may change an employee’s job duties,[1] place a negative letter in…
In one of few recent victories for Title IX plaintiffs, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court ruled in favor of four student athletes at James Campbell High School. The Ninth Circuit held that the district court erred in rejecting the plaintiffs’ request for class certification on their Title IX retaliation claims. A.…
Deadly Ghost Guns Flooding Baltimore are now 19% of all Seized Guns according to Baltimore Police Department Polymer80 Accounts for 91% of all Seized Ghost Guns in Baltimore BALTIMORE, June 1, 2022 – Today, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott announced that Baltimore City filed a lawsuit against the nation’s largest ghost gun manufacturer, Polymer80, Inc. The lawsuit, filed in the Circuit…
Lawyers who represent victims of investment fraud frequently criticize the FINRA arbitration process as being tilted in favor of stockbrokers. Biased arbitrators, cherry-picked by the industry and beholden to their interests, is a common complaint. A recent filing by the Alabama Securities Commission against a FINRA arbitrator for numerous violations has added credence to the claims of unfairness. According to…
Twitter’s latest earnings release revealed that the company overcounted its user accounts by nearly 2 million each quarter for the past three years. Twitter explained it as an internal error due to the company counting multiple accounts linked to a single user as active. In other words, Twitter counted the single user with multiple accounts as separate monetizable active users.…