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.
IVF Gender Discrimination Litigation (Briskin v. City of New York)
On April 12, 2022, a gay male couple filed a class action discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the City of New York that alleges that the City, as an employer, violated federal, state, and local civil rights laws by denying gay male workers in vitro fertilization (IVF) benefits that the City offers to other employees.
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.
Daily Caller/ Salem Media Defamation Case (Awan v. Daily Caller, Inc.)
In 2020, Imran Awan and four other former House of Representatives IT staffers (Awans) filed a defamation action against the Daily Caller, former Daily Caller reporter Luke Rosiak, and Salem Media Group (Defendants), alleging that the Defendants defamed the Awans by publishing a book called Obstruction of Justice that falsely accuses the Awans of various crimes.
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.
Age Bias in Housing Ads Litigation (Opiotennione v. Bozzuto et al.)
On July 1, 2020, in a historic civil rights action challenging digital discrimination in housing, an older woman seeking to represent a class of thousands of older tenants filed a lawsuit against 10 residential property management companies, including a number of industry leaders, alleging that they denied older prospective tenants the opportunity to receive their paid digital ads for apartments.