Select Cases: Workplace | Employment | Housing | Human Rights | Civil Rights

WORKPLACE WAGE, OVERTIME, AND BENEFITS VIOLATIONS

Traber & Voorhees has handled a number of significant class-action wage and overtime cases. In these cases, workers allege violations of state and federal wage and hour laws. Among other things, these laws protect a non-exempt employee’s right be paid a premium if they work in excess of an 8-hour workday and/or a 40-hour workweek. Under state law, employers are also required to provide duty-free meal and rest periods, and payroll statements. Other laws regulate the payment of accrued vacation pay and other benefits as well as the right to take time off for serious medical issues without being retaliated against.

To read about some of the important cases that Traber & Voorhees has litigated in this area to protect and uphold the rights of workers, to learn about the government agencies responsible for enforcing wage and hour and benefits laws, or to inquire about representation, please click here.

EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION AND RETALIATION

Traber & Voorhees has litigated a number of ground-breaking employment discrimination cases. In such cases, employees often charge that their employer has made them work under different conditions than other workers, not given them promotions or salary increases, disciplined them unfairly, created a hostile work environment, or fired them, on account of their race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or ethnicity. A related type of case, known as a “whistleblower” case, involves employees who claim they are retaliated against by an employer or supervisor for publicly challenging potentially harmful workplace conditions or practices, such as violations of laws, the illegal use of funds, corruption, or discrimination.

To read about some of the important cases that Traber & Voorhees has litigated in this area, to find out how to file a complaint about discrimination in the workplace with the state or federal government, or to inquire about representation, please click here.

HOUSING RIGHTS

Traber & Voorhees has served as individual and class counsel in a number of important housing discrimination cases, including in three of the largest settlements ever obtained against private defendants in a fair housing class action. In fair housing class actions, individuals often allege that they been denied housing, lied to in the sale or rental of housing, lied to about the availability of housing, or forced to rent housing on different terms than other people, because they have children or based on their race, national origin, gender, disability, or age.

To read about some of the ground-breaking cases that Traber & Voorhees has litigated in this area, to find out how to file a complaint about a fair housing violation with the state or federal government, or to inquire about representation, please click here.

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS

Traber & Voorhees has served as counsel in several cases involving violations of the human and civil rights of individuals in other countries, sometimes perpetrated by defendants residing in the United States. For example, in Larry Bowoto, et al. v. Chevron Corporation, an international human rights case, Traber & Voorhees has joined other human rights lawyers in charging California-based Chevron with, among other things, violating international human rights and other laws by killing, torturing, and injuring Nigerians citizens in conjunction with their oil production activities in the Niger Delta. Most recently the plaintiffs have petitioned the United States Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the case.

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OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Traber & Voorhees has also served as plaintiffs’ counsel in a number of other civil rights cases involving violations of fundamental rights. For example, the firm represented the Pasadena Chapter of the NAACP in defending against an overreaching gang injunction and sucessfully challenged the segregation and institutionalization of several foster children improperly classified as severely disabled. Traber & Voorhees also joined with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other civil rights lawyers to challenge AT&T and other telephone companies’ release of citizens’ private calling information to the federal government.

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ATTORNEYS’ FEE APPLICATIONS

Traber & Voorhees also helps other legal organizations and law firms prepare, file, and defend attorneys’ fees applications. To read about our experience in this area and to inquire about representation or assistance, please click here.