Blog Archive : September 2009

On 9/29/09 the Supreme Court decided to hear our appeal. Because there are over 6500 people in the plaintiff class, we regret that we cannot speak to every class member about the appeal. The appeal will focus on the following question: whether a plaintiff may bring a lawsuit challenging a discriminatory employment test within 300 days after the employer used the test to hire e...

The Chicago Lawyers' Committee and Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced that a jury has awarded a Chicago family of Puerto Rican descent $520,000 in damages in a hate crime and fair housing case filed against their neighbor earlier this year. A Cook County jury awarded the Jesse and Alisa Rodriguez family, including their two children, $140,000 in compensatory damages and $380,000 in ...

CLC filed a sexual harassment case on behalf of Petra Castro, an immigrant worker who was sexually harassed on the job and later fired when she complained about the sexual harassment. CLC is litigating the case with Jose Behar and Christina Siepel of member law firm Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym. For more information, please contact Laurie Wardell, at lwardell@clccrul.org.

For Immediate Release September 3, 2009 Contact: Betsy Shuman-Moore, 312.630.9744 bshuman-moore@clccrul.org Jason Milch, 312.846.9647 milchj@jaffeassociates.com CHICAGO – The Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. and KattenMuchin Rosenman LLP today announced tha...

Here are articles from the Chicago Tribune, National Law Journal, Chicago Sun-Times,and Hoy on our recent victory in a hate crime fair housing lawsuit. Hate crime unnerves Chicago family who won lawsuit September 3, 2009 9:42 PM, via ChicagoBreakingNews The two-story brick home on Chicago's Northwest Side has become a ...