RECENT SUCCESSES

Some examples of successful cases include defeating summary judgment against a woman denied promotion because she had a small child (Sivieri v. DTA); winning an appeal from a Superior Court decision denying the sexual harassment claims of a woman assaulted in her workplace (Doucette v. Salty Dog); winning a Commission Against Discrimination decision awarding substantial damages for an African-American woman harassed and over-supervised due to her race (Williams v. New Bedford); successfully representing a disabled man in his struggle to get a parking space from his employer (Braman v. City of Boston); and successfully opposing a Motion for Summary Judgment against a woman terminated from her job due to her multiple sclerosis in a decision that was rated one of the more significant decisions of 1999 by the Labor and Employment Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association (Beling v. RMD, Inc.).  Other notable cases include representing a deaf woman denied accommodation by her employer (Tate v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Mental Health), and a woman terminated from her job while suffering from multiple sclerosis (Schmid v. Boston Edison).