April 25, 2022
Console Mattiacci Law LLC will collect almost $765,000 in fees for winning a $2.3 million age-bias suit against AT&T Mobility Services, after a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday slightly trimmed the firm's requested hours and rates but noted that a less-experienced female shareholder deserved the same hourly rate as her older male co-counsel.
February 22, 2022
AT&T will not get another trial in an age bias suit that led to a former employee winning a $2.3 million verdict on claims that the company laid her off for being 49 years old, a Pennsylvania federal judge said Tuesday, calling the telecommunications company's arguments "meritless."
February 15, 2022
A former AT&T employee who won a $2.3 million verdict on claims that the company laid her off for being 49 years old called the company's bid for a new trial an attempt to "re-try its case on paper," accusing it of trying to "usurp the jury's role as factfinder."
December 10, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge said a former AT&T worker should get $2.3 million after she won a jury verdict in an age bias suit challenging the telecommunications giant's choice to lay her off.
September 13, 2019
A laid-off AT&T employee can't include other colleagues in her lawsuit claiming the telecommunications giant discriminated against older workers by having them sign an invalid release of claims, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled, saying she missed her chance to pursue a collective action.
March 14, 2019
Walmart was recently found to have flouted Arizona's medical marijuana law when it fired a worker with a positive drug test even though she legally smoked cannabis for medicinal purposes, and AT&T was recently found to have used an invalid waiver that blocked a laid-off employee from lodging age discrimination claims. Here, Law360 looks at these and another notable employment litigation development from the first quarter of 2019.