Current Cases
NYC Street Hail Excessive Fines Litigation (Miller v. City of New York)
On January 5, 2023, four New York City residents filed a federal class action lawsuit exposing the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC)’s practice of targeting thousands of people of color in undercover sting operations to pad its coffers.
Algorithmic Bias in Job Ads on Meta (Real Women in Trucking v. Meta)
On December 1, 2022, Real Women in Trucking, a non-profit group that advocates for women truck drivers, filed a class action charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Meta Platforms, alleging that Meta routinely discriminates against women and older people when deciding which users receive employers’ job ads on Facebook.
Meta’s Race Discrimination in Hiring and Promotions (Veneszee v. Facebook, Inc.)
On July 2, 2020, several black workers filed a class action charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that Facebook, Inc. (which recently changed its name to Meta Platforms) discriminates against black workers and applicants in hiring, evaluations, promotions, and pay in violation of federal, state, and local civil rights laws.
Paid Military Leave Class Actions
PRF Law and several law firms are collectively litigating a number of class action lawsuits in which military reservists allege that their employers violated their obligation under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) to pay the reservists when they took short-term military leave because the same employers paid employees when they took other comparable non-military leaves, such as jury duty, bereavement leave, sick leave, and/or vacation.
Gender/Age Bias in Insurance Ads Litigation (Liapes v. Facebook, Inc.)
In 2020, Samantha Liapes filed a class action lawsuit in California Superior Court against Facebook alleging that Facebook routinely places insurance ads on its social media platform in which women and older people are completely excluded from receiving those ads.