Cases
Our attorneys are knowledgeable and experienced in various of areas of the law. To read more about the types of cases we bring, please see more below.
Employment Law
Employees are given rights under federal and state laws. Our office protects those rights, including fighting workplace harassment, discrimination and retaliation, as well as retrieving unpaid compensation and overtime wages.
Education Law
Education law cases brought by our office ensure children receive the education they are entitled to under state and federal laws. Our attorneys are highly experienced in special education law as well as other cases that arise in the school setting.
Civil Rights Law
From city ordinances that violate the Fair Housing Act, to sexual harassment by state employees, our office fights back to protect our clients’ civil rights.
What Title IX Changes Could Mean for You
By Camille Respess In a sweeping announcement on Nov. 16, the U.S. Department of Education secretary Betsy DeVos announced new changes to Title IX, a federal civil rights law passed in 1972. Title IX stated that, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of...
Racial Profiling Keeps Happening in St. Louis
Places of public accommodation are barred from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, or disability. It’s actually prohibited by both Missouri and federal law. Yet and still, racial profiling keeps happening in St. Louis....
Missouri violates prisoners’ rights
The state violated the rights of inmates in Missouri prisons, a judge recently found. According to a lawsuit filed by four inmates seeking to represent all Missouri inmates serving life for crimes committed before the age of 18, the state’s parole board violated the...
Wage Theft
Instances of wage theft occur far too often in the United States. Wage theft is when employees are not given their rights, earnings or benefits they deserve from their employers. This can be manifested in a number of ways: minimum wage violations, failure to receive...
Protecting Immigrants and Their Families
In September 2017, Alex Garcia, a 36-year-old Honduran immigrant, entered sanctuary from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He’s lived in the U.S. for 13 years and fled Honduras because of the violence and danger he feared in his home country. Honduras...
Changes in Dyslexia Screenings
Students at Missouri’s public schools will now receive dyslexia screening at earlier ages. According to an August 29 article from St. Louis Public Radio, kindergarten through third graders will now receive brief dyslexia screening. The screenings will occur every...
LGBTQ Rights May Get One Step Closer to Protection in Missouri in 2019
Since 1998, Missouri lawmakers have tried, without success, to get members of the LGBTQ community legal protection. Though rights for LGBTQ individuals have increased in recent years, gay or transgendered people, or even those perceived as gay or transgender, are not...
Monroe v. Rauner
The ACLU and Kirkland Ellis filed a class action lawsuit on January 31, 2018, on behalf of transgender women currently in custody in the Illinois Department of Corrections. In March of 2018, Thomas Kennedy and Sarah Jane Hunt of Kennedy Hunt, P.C., joined the case as...
Press Release for Lawsuit Against City of Murphysboro, IL
On May 7, 2018, the Kennedy Hunt, P.C. filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against the City of Murphysboro, Illinois and two members of the Murphysboro Police Department under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the...
Filing for Overtime Pay and Wrongful Termination
The Kennedy Hunt, P.C., III filed suit in St. Louis County on behalf of our client, a former janitor of Machinist District No. 9. The lawsuit alleges violations of the Missouri Minimum Wage Law, Missouri common law, and wrongful termination. The petition is available...