On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, NELA was proud to join with a coalition of women’s, employee, and civil rights groups led by the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) in filing an amicus brief in support of the Plaintiff-Appellant Evangeline Parker in Parker v. Reema Consulting Services, Inc. ,...
Parker v. Reema Consulting_NWLC NELA Amici Brief_053018.pdf
On October 25, 2016 NELA joined a coalition of groups led by Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF) and the Impact Fund in signing onto an amicus brief in Carcaño v. McCrory , currently pending in U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. This case involves a challenge to...
Carcano v. McCrory Amicus Brief (4th Cir.).pdf
On October 26, 2015, NELA joined the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association (MWELA) in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in support of the Plaintiff-Appellant in Sharif v. United Airlines, Inc . Drawing on an extensive line of cases...
Sharif v United Airlines_4th Cir_NELA MWELA Amicus Brief_Final_102615.pdf
On October 26, 2015, NELA joined the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association (MWELA) in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in support of the Plaintiff-Appellant in Sharif v. United Airlines, Inc. Mr. Sharif, who worked as a...
On March 9, 2015, NELA joined Disability Rights North Carolina and the National Disability Rights Network to file an amicus brief in support of plaintiff-appellant Whitney Stephenson in the case of Stephenson v. Pfizer, Inc. , Case No. 14-2079, pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
NELA et al. Amicus Brief_Stephenson v. Pfizer.pdf
More than a year ago, in May 2013, NELA and AARP jointly submitted an amicus curiae brief in support of Richard G. Tatum, plaintiff-appellant, in Tatum v. RJR Pension Investment Committee , No. 13-1360, pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. This was Mr. Tatum’s...
tatum decision 08 04 2014.pdf
On February 25, 2014, NELA filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in support of plaintiff DeMasters who was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for using established internal complaint mechanisms to notify Carilion Clinic about the sexual harassment...
DeMasters v. Carilion Clinic_NELA Amicus Brief.pdf
On July 14, 2013, NELA joined AARP in filing an amicus brief supporting Carl Summers, a contract statistician with Altarum Institute Corp. who sustained serious injury to both legs in 2011 accident, in his appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. Summers was terminated...
NELA-AARP Amicus Brief_Final (as filed)_07 16 20131.pdf
In the Fourth Circuit case, Tatum v. RJ Reynolds Investment Committee, et al. (Case No. 13-1360), after RJR Nabisco Holdings Inc. spun off defendants R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. in 1999, Nabisco stock was sold and removed from the pension plan. The...
NELAAmicusBrief_Tatum v RJ Reynolds Amici Brf final 6-4-13.pdf