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The lawyers at Golomb & Honik are proud to represent
those who have had their civil rights violated. We fight
for our clients’ right to be free of harm, free
of unreasonable invasion, and free from discrimination.
Civil rights cases include protection against violations
of First Amendment rights under the United States Constitution,
as well as actions to seek redress from various acts
of discrimination in the work place. For example, Golomb
& Honik represented an individual in a defamation
and invasion of privacy case against his former university
for the unlawful use of his likeness in a school brochure.
Federal law protects certain minorities from being
discriminated against in the workplace. Golomb &
Honik lawyers have successfully represented numerous
individuals who have sought redress for race and gender
discrimination, as well as disabled individuals filing
claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
These cases are time-intensive and technical in nature,
but Golomb & Honik lawyers have the experience,
knowledge, and resources to handle these claims.
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G&H Attorneys represented nineteen (19) African Americans who were terminated by Wells Fargo in 2006 for allegedly abusing the Wells Fargo email system and information security policy. After more than thirty (30) depositions, multiple settlement conferences and two (2) days of mediation, all of the remaining individual cases settled.
In 2006, based on the investigation into the email use of a single employee, Wells Fargo decided to investigate seventy-two (72) of their employees into their individual email use – sixty-eight (68), or 94%, of those investigated were African American. The office in which this investigation took place was 45% African American. The investigation was conducted from home office in Des Moines, Iowa.
As a result of this investigation, thirty-two (32) Wells Fargo employees were terminated and thirty-one (31), or 97%, of them were African American.
Litigation ensued claiming racial discrimination and disparate treatment and through written discovery and many depositions critical facts were learned including that the terminated employees named at least twenty (20) caucasian employees engaging in the same or similar conduct. Not only were these individuals not investigated, but Wells Fargo deleted the emails in question from the system. Additionally, several of the supervisors involved in the investigation and firings were concerned that over 97% of the fired employees were African American. As a result, they suggested “random sampling” within this particular office. This suggestion was summarily dismissed and the firings went forward as recommended by home office.
Individual Motions for Summary Judgment were dismissed as to all Plaintiffs, and after multiple efforts to settle, they were resolved several weeks before the first scheduled trial.
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FF, as a four year old child, was molested while attending a Philadelphia daycare center. She did not tell anyone for more than two years although her behavior changed dramatically in the year the incident occurred. At the age of six, FF was watching a television program with her mother when a segment on pedophilia came on the screen. At that point, FF told her mother what had happened two years earlier when she was molested by the teenage son of the owner of the daycare center. Philadelphia Police and the Department of Human Services were contacted and, ultimately, the teenager was arrested, convicted and incarcerated.
G&H attorneys filed a civil lawsuit seeking damages for the child who underwent inpatient and outpatient therapy for a period of years. After extensive discovery and trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas a verdict was entered for the child in the amount of $390,000.00.
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