RPJ congratulates Christine Clarke on her appointment as Chair of the New York City Commission on Human Rights. As Chair, Clarke is charged with defending the rights of New Yorkers and enforcing New York City Human Rights Law, one of the most comprehensive series of civil rights laws in the...
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection just announced that it will begin enforcing the NYC Automated Employment Decision Tools (“AEDT”) law on July 5, 2023, delaying enforcement of a law which was originally introduced in 2021. Along with this announcement, the Department also published its Final...
Last year, I wrote about a case challenging New York’s reproductive healthcare nondiscrimination bill on First Amendment freedom of speech grounds. Now, in a related case, the Second Circuit recently held that the law may violate the right to freedom of “expressive association” for certain anti-abortion employers. The law in...
RPJ Senior Attorney Christine Clarke was interviewed about current and upcoming threats to abortion access in the most recent episode of The O+G Advocates, a podcast created by a team of expert OBGYNs that explores the science and politics of reproductive health care medicine. In the episode, Christine talks about...
Twitter is recently undergoing some “extremely hardcore” workplace turmoil, shall we say, and doing so very publicly before the eyes of millions and millions of Twitter users around the world. When I first saw reference to the now well-known email ultimatum set down by Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner and...
In the wake of the leaked Roe v. Wade draft opinion, RPJ’s Christine Clarke will discuss next Thursday, May 19 what the decision will mean for New Yorkers and what we can do to protect women’s rights to bodily autonomy and access to safe reproductive care. Prior to joining RPJ,...
On April 28, 2022, the Supreme Court decided the case of Cummins v. Premier Rehab Keller, concerning an individual who requested that her physical therapist obtain an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter to communicate with her. The plaintiff in this case was both deaf and visually impaired. The physical therapist,...
This is the question raised by a recent lawsuit filed in the Northern District of New York by religious anti-abortion organizations against New York State. In the case, Compasscare et al. v. Cuomo et al., 19-cv-01409, the organizational plaintiffs argued that their First Amendment rights were violated by a New...
RPJ is delighted and honored to welcome our newest colleagues to the team: John A. Beranbaum John A. Beranbaum joins RPJ’s strong practice in employment law, litigation, arbitration, mediation, and trial advocacy. With over 30 years of litigation and trial experience, Mr. Beranbaum regularly counsels clients navigating complex workplace circumstances...