Afternoon Briefs: Justice Thomas questions federal pot law; Jones Day pay case dropped
Justice Thomas questions government’s ‘half-in, half-out’ pot stance
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Monday the federal government may no longer have the authority to intrude on the states’ powers to legalize marijuana. Thomas commented in a statement regarding cert denial in a tax case involving a pot business. Thomas said the 2005 case upholding the federal government’s power to ban local marijuana use was based on comprehensive legislation regulating the interstate pot market. The federal government’s current “half-in, half-out” approach that tolerates yet forbids local use of marijuana has undermined the 2005 decision, he said. Thirty-six states allow medical marijuana, and 18 states allow recreational marijuana. (NBC News, Law.com, USA Today, Thomas’ statement)
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Ex-Jones Day Associate s Bias Suit Dealt Another Blow
Law360 (March 31, 2021, 9:35 PM EDT) A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday left a once-sprawling suit accusing Jones Day of widespread pay and sex bias hanging by a thread, tossing the last remaining Equal Pay Act claim weeks after an exodus of plaintiffs left just one associate s claims standing.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss dismissed a central claim by Katrina Henderson, the last plaintiff in what began two years ago as a 23-count class and collective action, weeks after five of the six plaintiffs dropped off the case.
In throwing out Henderson s claim under the EPA that the firm undercompensated her after it fired her and kept.
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Afternoon Briefs: 5 Jones Day plaintiffs drop claims; no immunity for cop who shocked girl during seizure
Only 1 plaintiff remains in Jones Day pay-bias suit
Five of six former associates suing Jones Day for gender bias have dropped their claims. The move follows a decision by all the plaintiffs in December to drop class action pay-bias claims in the suit. The five plaintiffs said in a statement Thursday they dropped the class claims after receiving payroll data that did not support them. “We remain committed to advancing the goal of having greater equity in the legal profession and have now concluded our case against Jones Day,” the statement said. The statement did not indicate whether there was a settlement. The only remaining plaintiff is Katrina Henderson, who alleges pay discrimination, disparate treatment, a hostile work environment and racial bias. (Law.com, Bloomberg Law, Law360, stipulation of remaining claims)
Five of the six female former Jones Day lawyers behind a high-profile suit accusing the BigLaw powerhouse of underpaying women associates told a D.C. federal court Thursday that they had dropped out of the case, leaving only one ex-associate's claims in play.
December 16, 2020 at 2:50 PM
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Say goodbye to the class-action gender discrimination lawsuit against Jones Day.
As you may recall, the purported class-action gender discrimination case alleged a “fraternity culture” at the firm and unequal pay behind the firm’s notorious “black box” compensation system. The plaintiffs were spread throughout the country Nilab Rahyar Tolton, Andrea Mazingo, Meredith Williams, and Jaclyn Stahl worked in California offices of the firm, while Saira Draper was an associate in Atlanta, and Katrina Henderson was in the firm’s New York office and a core allegation is that the same black box compensation systems kept their pay below that of men working at the firm.