Former Cottage Grove Police Officer settles sex discrimination claim for $100,000 Officer Iboa Pierce was hired by the Cottage Grove Police Department as a patrol officer in April 2021. She was one of only two female officers in the Department, and the only female...
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Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuit Filed
Earlier this week, JJLM filed a lawsuit in federal court in Medford on behalf of Cory Muse, a former bartender at The 238 Bar in Grants Pass, who was discriminated and retaliated against by her employer for being pregnant. When Muse disclosed her pregnancy, her hours...
JJLM Settles Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Case Against McKenzie-Willamette Hospital
On March 25, 2021, JJLM filed a Complaint in the United States District Court on behalf of Joy Hanneman, a nurse who worked in the PACU at McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Eugene. One of the charge nurses who oversaw Ms. Hanneman’s work subjected her and other female...
Employee or Independent Contractor?
It is not uncommon for employers to describe a worker as an “independent contractor” to avoid providing workers’ compensation coverage. A worker subjected to this arrangement, who is injured on the job, may not realize that he or she may still be entitled to workers’...
Have You Or Someone You Know Been Injured By a Preventable Medication Error?
Every year, billions of prescription medications are filled or administered. Most of these medications are delivered appropriately. However, an unacceptable number are handled negligently, unnecessarily causing preventable harm to patients and other consumers....
Elmiron and Vision Loss
Elmiron is a drug prescribed to treat interstitial cystitis, sometimes called Bladder Pain Syndrome. This condition mainly affects women, and it causes abdominal and pelvic pain. Recent studies have found that patients who were prescribed and used Elmiron for a...
U.S. Supreme Court Holds Workplace Discrimination against LGBTQ Employees Prohibited
This past June, the United States Supreme Court held that discrimination against gay and transgender employees is illegal under Tile VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the federal law that prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on race, color, religion,...
JJLM and ACLU sue ICE for unlawful detention
On August 12, 2020, Jennifer Middleton and Caitlin Mitchell, in cooperation with the ACLU of Oregon, filed a federal lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on behalf of Isidro Andrade-Tafolla. Mr. Andrade-Tafolla, a...
Keith Semple pushes for worker protection
Since the Governors’ Declaration of Emergency, our attorney, Keith Semple, has been volunteering his time to the push for greater worker protection during Corona virus pandemic. Keith is the co-chair of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Workers’ Compensation section, and has...
Jennifer Middleton argues Freyd case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
On May 12, 2020, Jennifer Middleton argued on behalf of Professor Jennifer Freyd, a UO Psychology professor whose Department Head says she earns at least $40-50,000 less than she should make relative to the male Psychology professors. She is challenging a district...