On October 5, 2017, five years ago today, The New York Times published a bombshell expose revealing decades of sexual harassment, discrimination and abuse by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, launching the #MeToo movement. See Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades - The New York Times (nytimes.com). In...
Democratic and Republican lawmakers have come together for the second time this year in an effort to increase transparency for incidents of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. On September 15, 2022, the Senate Judiciary Committee, acting on a bipartisan basis, unanimously voted to advance the Speak Out Act...
As the fall semester gets under way, Law360 published an article by Amanda Ottaway on the discrimination issues that U.S. colleges and universities should watch out for in the months to come, quoting RPJ Partner Helen D. “Heidi” Reavis. Legal experts opined on how schools of higher education nation-wide should...
I was on my way down to New Orleans for Realscreen Summit 2020 when the woman in front of me announced to the plane that Kobe Bryant was dead. By the time we landed, the rumor was confirmed and the breaking news splashed across every smartphone in sight. In this...
This week's TikTok features RPJ Partner Nicole Page as she discusses a situation that may be all too familiar: a hostile work environment. Commonly used as a phrase referring to an unpleasant workplace, a hostile work environment is actually a legal term that is far more complex than most people...
RPJ is proud to announce a new outreach initiative via the launch of Partner Ethan Krasnoo's TikTok presence. Intended to shed some light on common employment and entertainment and media issues, Ethan will feature short, educational videos that aim to inform the general audience of important legal issues. The first...
Pray Away produced by Multitude Films has been nominated for an Emmy Award under the category Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. The film explores the “ex-gay movement” and how former leaders of Exodus International, once the largest conversion therapy organization in the world, have since come out as LGBTQ. The documentary sheds...
On July 26, 1990, thirty-two years ago today, the Americans with Disabilities Act (the “ADA”) was enacted. Heralded as the world’s first comprehensive declaration of equality for people with disabilities, the ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in critical areas including employment, transportation,...
RPJ Partner Nicole Page will be moderating a panel at the Offshore Film Festival in Montauk on Friday, July 15 featuring a dynamic group of female filmmakers and artists to discuss storytelling and art made by women, and the importance of presenting the female perspective in these mediums, especially now....
The Federal Correctional Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, (“FCI-Memphis”) is one of 122 prisons run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The inmates at FCI-Memphis are all males, but the institution has 49 female employees. Due to a chronic shortage of correctional officers, FCI-Memphis regularly “augments” (i.e. requires) females to...