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Accenture Sued For Alleged Discrimination Over Background Checks
Posted on 20 Apr 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK — Accenture, one of the largest management consulting firms in the world, conducts background checks that discriminate against African Americans and Latinos, a class action lawsuit filed in New York federal court on April 8 alleges. ... Read More

Tags: Ossai Miazad , background checks , Accenture LLP , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law , Outten & Golden LLP , Samuel R. Miller , Sarah Crawford , Civil Rights Act of 1964 , Litigation , U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , Audrey Wiggins , lawsuit , Roberto J. Arroyo , Adam T. Klein , EEOC

U.S. Census Bureau Sued For Alleged Hiring Discrimination
Posted on 15 Apr 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK — Thousands of African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans have been rejected for jobs by the U.S. Census Bureau during the federal government's massive hiring campaign for this year's census because of systematic discrimination... Read More

Tags: Center for Constitutional Rights , Eugene Johnson v. Gary Locke , U.S. Department of Commerce , Community Service Society , LatinoJustice PRLDEF , Public Citizen Litigation Group , U.S. Census Bureau , new lawsuit filings , Indian Legal Resource Center , employment discrimination , class action , Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights , Community Legal Services of Philadelphia , Outten & Golden LLP , Adam Klein , Evelyn Houser , Eugene Johnson , Litigation , lawsuit , Samuel Miller

Female Employees Sue Goldman Sachs, Alleging Sex Discrimination
Posted on 17 Sep 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - Goldman Sachs has engaged in systemic and pervasive discrimination against its female professional employees, according to a lawsuit filed Sept. 15 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ( H. Cristina Chen-Oster, et... Read More

Tags: sex discrimination , investment management , Anne Shaver , Discrimination , investment banking , Heather Wong , Kelly M. Dermody , new lawsuit filings , New York City Human Rights Law , H. Cristina Chen-Oster v. Goldman Sachs , Outten & Golden LLP , gender discrimination , Civil Rights Act of 1964 , Jennifer Liu , Litigation , lawsuit , Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein , Cara E. Greene , Adam T. Klein , Securities , Goldman Sachs