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Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a groundbreaking law in the United States that provides comprehensive civil rights protection to people with disabilities. The ADA has sweeping, ground-breaking impacts, including: making it illegal to discriminate against...
Pregnancy Discrimination in the Workplace
A WNBA star recently sued her former team and the league itself, alleging discrimination over her pregnancy. According to the federal lawsuit, the Las Vegas Aces failed to honor parts of her contract and then traded her after she revealed she was pregnant. The...
News Coverage: OTHS failed to accommodate student’s disabilities, lawsuit says
A Kennedy Hunt P.C. disability rights lawsuit is landing local news coverage. The lawsuit alleges O’Fallon Township High School discriminated against and failed to accommodate our client, a minor child with disabilities suffering from chronic lung scarring, thyroid...
News Coverage: St. Clair County fired the HR director for investigating an official’s relative, he alleges
A recent Kennedy Hunt P.C. human rights case is receiving new media coverage. The lawsuit alleges our client, the former St. Clair County HR director, was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for investigating sexual harassment and discrimination claims made against...
News: Managing Partner Quoted in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Managing partner Sarah Jane Hunt was quoted in a recent article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about a legislative effort to amend the Missouri Human Rights Act. The proposed change seeks to explicitly exclude gender identity and sexual orientation explicitly from...
News: Missouri Supreme Court Hears Case on Transgender Student’s Use of School Bathroom
The Missouri Supreme Court will soon decide if a Missouri school district’s denial for a transgender student to use multi-stall bathrooms and locker rooms is a form of sex discrimination. The impending ruling in the $4 million discrimination case will set a precedent...