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Leeds Morelli and Brown, P.C.

Jury Awards Former Tunnel Worker $735,000 in Discrimination Case

New York Times, Wednesday, July 30, 2008
New York Times article - "A federal jury has awarded more than $700,000 to a former Queens-Midtown Tunnel employee who said his bosses denied him a promotion and penalized him for taking sixk days because he was Jewish."

Leeds Morelli and Brown, P.C.

Carle Place Firm Leading Way on Civil-Rights Center

Newsday, Monday, July 10, 2000
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC is featured by Newsday where the newspaper refers to the law firm as "the leading civil-rights law firm on Long Island and probably in the country." Read More

Discrimination Case

Bumbling at Bumble?

The New York Post, Thursday, October 25, 2001
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC is retained by a hair dresser assistant to prosecute her complaint against a plush beauty spot. The New York Post mentions that the plaintiff "certainly has real legal muscle on her side. Leeds Morelli & Brown has won some of New York's largest awards in cases where it has proved racial, sexual or age discrimination in the workplace." Read More

Bias Case

$1.5M Bias Award

Newsday, Thursday, July 20, 2000
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC convinced a federal jury to award a gay correctional officer$1.55 million in damages. Lawyers for several organizations that fight anti-gay bias, including the Lambda Legal Defense Fund and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, said the award was a record in New York for sexual discrimination by a government, and one of the largest in the country. Read More

Age Discrimination

Good Job, Goodbye

Sunday, March 23, 2003
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC filed an age discrimination complaint on behalf of three women against a Deer Park based company. Read More

Discrimination Case

Bank To Saleswoman's Widow: Can't Take It With You

Newsday, Thursday, April 28, 2005 - Cover Story
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC represents widow of former Northfork Sales Representative and commences litigation over the bank's failure to pay her husband's estate commissions that were earned. Read More

Discrimination Case

Jury Awards $522,000 In Discrimination Suit

Newsday, Thursday, April 9, 1998
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC won a $522,000 federal jury verdict when it represented an Indian immigrant who worked for the Robert Plan Corp. The plaintiff worked for the insurer for five months as a computer project manager before he was wrongfully terminated. Read More

Discrimination Case

Settlement in cancer discrimination suit

Newsday, Friday October 14, 2005
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC represents a Nassau County breast cancer survivor in a federal lawsuit against her former employer. The federal lawsuit alleged that when the breast cancer survivor returned to work two months after her cancer treatments, her direct supervisor controlled her bathroom breaks and threatened to fire her unless she raised her hand to ask permission. Read More

Real Estate Case

400 Families Sue Builder

Newsday, Wednesday, July 11, 2001
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC is retained by 400 families to commence a class action because they were duped into buying overpriced, shoddily built homes from one of Suffolk's largest residential builders. Read More

Bias Case

Knick-Doc 'Cancer Bias' Suit

The New York Post
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC filed a disability EEOC complaint against a high profile Knick's surgeon. Read More

Bias Case

Philharmonic Suit Strikes a bad note

Newsday, Saturday, July 23, 2005
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC represents a male violinist against The New York Philharmonic orchestra in claim that he was denied tenure because of his gender. Twenty of the Philharmonic's 33 violinists are women, one of the highest ratios among major American orchestras. Read More

The Philharmonic Denies Bias

The New York Times, Tuesday July 26, 2005

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Discrimination Case

Gay Officer Wins

Newsday, Thursday, June 17, 1999
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC break legal ground when a U.S. federal judge rules that homosexuals should be considered a protected class and a federal jury awards a gay Nassau County police officer $250,000. Read More

Bias Case

Teens Accuse Store of Bias

Newsday, Friday, May 25, 2001
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC filed charges of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of black teenagers when they were wrongfully denied job applications at Stop & Shop. Read More

Bias Case

Bisexual officer wins bias lawsuit

Newsday, Saturday, January 29, 2005
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC convinced a federal jury to award a bisexual officer $260,000 in damages for discrimination and hostile work environment. Read More

Bias Case

1.5 M award in bias suit

Daily News, Monday, October 31, 1991
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC convinced a jury to award $1.5 million to a Wyandanch man who has been hired by an insurance company and promised a promotion. Read More

Discrimination Case

Eye doctor fired me for breast cancer: suit

The New York Post, Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Leeds Morelli & Brown, P.C. represents a Long Island woman who was fired by Lens Crafters eye doctor because she got breast cancer, had to miss some work for chemotherapy sessions and was going to lose her hair. Read More

Discrimination Case

1987 Hero's burned in new trauma 

Daily News, Monday, August 7, 2006
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC file a disability discrimination EEOC complaint when the employer would not offer a reasonable accommodation for a grieving employee who lost her brother. Read More

Bias Case

Village Guilty of Bias

Newsday, Friday, October 20, 2000
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC won a $750,000 jury award before U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Spatt claiming that The Village of East Rockaway was liable to a local business owner for business losses and emotional damages. Read More

Discrimination Case

Win For Suffolk Officer

Newsday, Thursday, May 24, 2004
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC convinces a federal jury to award $229,500 to a 10-year veteran female Suffolk County Police Officer for allegations that she had been the victim of harassment and denial of advancement. Read More

Discrimination Case

Coaches Sue Over Hiring

Newsday
Two men who worked as coaches in the Southampton School District hired Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC to sue the district, claiming that it illegally passed them over for jobs in favor of less experienced women. Read More

Discrimination Case

Promote Black Cop: Judge 

Daily News
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC convinced a federal jury to award a black female cop $229,500 in a bias suit against the Suffolk County Police Department. After the successful trial the black female cop was awarded a promotion to detective. Read More

Civil Rights Case

EEOC Backs Worker Complaints Of Racial Discrimination at Xerox

The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, August 7, 2002
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC represented African American employees in Xerox Corp.'s Cincinnati facilities and assisted The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in reaching the finding that the employees were subjected to a racially hostile environment. Read More

Real Estate Case

Gov't takes salesman's side

Newsday, Thursday, May 3, 2007
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC assists The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in reaching a reasonable cause finding of race discrimination for a salesman against Ramp Chevrolet Inc. Read More

Discrimination Case

Man Alleges His Politics Led to Firing

Newsday
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court claiming that a Brookhaven Town employee was fired because his political show displeased the Town Supervisor. Read More

Employment Case

$150G for Former Worker

Newsday
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC convinced a federal jury to award a former Huntington town employee $150,000 for retaliation he endured after he lodged discrimination complaints. Read More

Discrimination Case

Fired Teacher Allowed to Sue

Newsday
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC convinces a federal judge to proceed with a controversial wrongful termination lawsuit. Read More

Discrimination Case

Law might support her firing

Newsday, Thursday, August 2, 2007
Leeds Morelli & Brown PC filed a controversial lawsuit claiming that a female secretary was wrongfully terminated based upon her gender. Read More

Bias Case

Ex-worker Accuses Northport of Bias

Newsday, Thursday, August 2, 2007
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC files an age discrimination EEOC complaint against The Village of Northport on behalf of a 57 year old worker who was replaced by two teenagers. Read More

Discrimination Case

Worker claimed complaints led to his termination

Verdictsearch Employment Law, December 2005
Leeds Morelli & Brown, PC convinced a jury to award an accountant from Queens College $325,000 in damages for subjecting him to a hostile environment and wrongfully terminating his services. Read More

Estate and Probate

Jury Invalidates Will, Disinherits Brother

Newsday, Wednesday, May 9, 1984

For the first time in 10 years in Nassau County, Lenard Leeds, Esq. overturned a will in a Nassau County Surrogate's Court trial. Read More