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Console Mattiacci Law, LLC Brings Case Against Prominent Law Firm On Behalf Of Law Librarian, As Reported In New Jersey Law Journal. Read more here.

Console Mattiacci Law, LLC Partner, Stephen G. Console, Is Featured In The Philadelphia Business Journal, Regarding Workplace Discrimination Lawsuits. Read more here.

Console Mattiacci Law, LLC Represents Victim Of Race Discrimination In Settlement Of Lawsuit Brought Against Prominent Philadelphia Bar. Read more here.

“A part-time bartender at the popular McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon in Northern Liberties has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the restaurant has deliberately discouraged nonwhite customers…”Read more here. “McFadden’s bartender says it discouraged nonwhite customers.” Gorenstein, Nathan. The Inquirer. 12 November 2010.

First Union Corp. must turn over documents regarding an allegedly misleading release signed by approximately 2,000 employees discharged by its predecessor CoreStates Financial Corp., a federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled, rejecting the contention that the documents were protected by attorney –client privilege (Kaminski v. First Union Corp, E.D. Pa., No. 98-CV-1623, 7/10/01). Applying the…

Affirmative action plans illegally discriminate against white job candidates if there is no proof that the employer’s hiring goals were adopted to remediate a history of discrimination against the protected group, a federal appeals court has ruled. “Unless an affirmative action plan has a remedial purpose, it cannot be said to mirror the purpose of…

A federal judge has certified a mandatory class-action ERISA suit against CoreStates Bank brought by a group of workers who claim they were deceived about their rights to benefits when the bank considered – and later abandoned – a plan to outsource their jobs. In his 32-page opinion in Feret v. CoreStates Financial Corp., U.S.…

CoreStates Financial Corp has rehired most of the employees it farmed out to Andersen Consulting last year, after getting them to sign away their right to sue. But CoreStates did not tell the 144 rehired programmers, analysts, and other technical employees about a potential class-action lawsuit that could pay off many times more than the…

A federal jury in Trenton has awarded a 65-year-old former General Electric Company engineer nearly $800,000 after finding that he had been fired because of his age. The jury on Oct. 8 awarded Murray Garden of Oreland, Pa., $796,044 in compensatory and punitive damages after finding that Garden’s termination in June 1990, at the age…

A federal jury has awarded approximately $800,000 to a former General Electric employee for claims brought under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. Murray Garden of Oreland, Montgomery County, formerly a senior engineer at GE’s Moorestown facility, submitted evidence establishing that GE’s system of ranking its engineers was…