Featured Cases

Brian Beneker is a white, heterosexual male script coordinator and freelance scriptwriter who has consistently written episodes for CBS’s “Seal Team” television series since 2017. He has been repeatedly denied a staff writer position with the show, while CBS hired and promoted individuals who lacked experience and screenwriting credits but were part of the favored hiring groups; that is, they were nonwhite, LGBTQ, or female. He witnessed CBS hire several staff writers without experience who met their DEI qualifications, despite telling Mr. Beneker that they could not hire him because the show had too many writers just months prior. Additionally, he had been informed by the showrunner that he did not check the right boxes for what the studio was looking for. Despite his success in writing for the series, he soon realized that he was ineligible for hiring in the writer’s room because of the illegal, discriminatory sex and race requirements enforced by CBS and Paramount.

Despite federal law prohibiting universities that receive federal funding from discriminating on the basis of race and sex, the New York University (NYU) Law Review selects members and editors based on race and sex preferences, clearly violating Title VI and Title IX.

Progressive Insurance engages in racial discrimination by offering $25,000 grants to ten “black-owned small businesses to use toward the purchase of a commerical vehicle.” Our client, a white male who owns a trucking company, received an email from Progressive, his insurance company, about a grant he otherwise would have qualified for if not for the color of his skin.

The plaintiff, James Harker, is an older white male. He has worked on film sets for more than 20 years doing electrical work. He has worked as a gaffer, the chief electrician on set, as well as a best boy electrician. The Defendants, Meta, BBDO, AICP, and Something Ideal, discriminated against him in hiring and job placement, despite his experience; all because he is the wrong race. The Defendants put into practice a program called “DoubletheLine,” which hired candidates based on whether they were “BIPOC,” otherwise known as “Black, Indigenous, or People of Color.” Because Mr. Harker is white, he was not eligible to participate in the DTL Program.

The New York University Law Review has chosen to use race and sex as factors in determining which articles to publish, which significantly impacts the career prospects of those authors denied publication. A coalition of faculty, alumni, and students opposed to racial preferences sued the University for this discrimination, and the University prevailed in the Second Circuit.

Federal law prohibits race-based discrimination in hiring and contracting. Texas A&M created a faculty hiring program with dedicated funding and positions set aside for candidates from “underrepresented minority groups.” In short, instead of considering applicants based on their qualifications, Texas A&M sought to reserve certain positions for candidates based solely on their skin color.

Under the guise of “diversity,” Amazon is offering a $10,000 bonus to its delivery service partners — but only for those partners who are black, Latino, or Native American. Asian Americans and whites are categorically ineligible for this racially discriminatory stipend. This is a flagrant violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which guarantees citizens of every race and color the same right to make and enter into contracts with others.

The State of New York implemented a policy that rationed COVID-19 treatment based on the patient’s race rather than their medical need.