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Buckley Bala Wilson MewPartner Anita Bala filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of an Asian-American preschool administrator against Westminster Schools, Inc. and administrators Kelley Day and Christa Hansen (“defendants”), alleging the private school in Atlanta terminated their client based on her race and national origin.

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Buckley Bala Wilson Mew Managing Partner Edward Buckley recently asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to declare that a decision by the Hall County Board of Commissioners freezing the pension benefits of county employees, who have filed a class action lawsuit, was in fact a termination of their retirement plan and violated the county’s own rules.

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Buckley Bala Wilson Mew has sued Clayton County, Georgia, and three county commissioners on behalf of a woman who served as the county's chief financial officer for nearly 10 years and claims she was fired and denied nearly $85,000 in severance pay in retaliation for her husband's work on the campaign of another commission member whose reelection the trio opposed.

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A woman who worked as a civilian at a Georgia Marine Corps base is suing the military, claiming she was subjected to sexual harassment, sex and race discrimination and retaliation while working there. “This is someone who was subjected to sexual harassment, who did everything right in complaining and opposing that harassment, and in response was subjected to further retaliation by the defendant, and ultimately that culminated in the alleged retaliatory discharge," Buckley Bala Wilson Mew partner Thomas J. Mew IV told the Daily Report.

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“She’s being marginalized, cut out of the loop,” Ed Buckley told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on behalf of his client, the Lawrenceville police captain who says she is being retaliated against by the Lawrenceville Police Department, and cannot speak publicly due to a gag order, while the acting police chief hosted a press conference.

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Both Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott recently cited a 1996 health law when refusing to answer reporters’ questions regarding whether they were vaccinated.

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A Black attorney who said she faced sexist and racist backlash after she complained about the way intellectual property firm Myers Bigel PA treated women is urging the nation’s highest court to hold that Title VII.

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A former Rincon police officer is suing the city and his former boss and is alleging he was racially discriminated against when he was fired, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this month. 

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A former Rincon police officer says he was fired not because of his performance, but his race.

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One year ago a historic civil rights victory in the Supreme Court was achieved, ensuring federal, uniform protection from employment discrimination LGBTQ employees.

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A public defender’s office and its county government must now defend their alleged actions against claims they illegally fired an employee undergoing breast cancer treatment.

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A young transgender woman seeking medical help from a Norcross psychiatric center was instead denied medication and assaulted, strip-searched and faced two days of discrimination and harassment, according to a federal lawsuit.

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Samantha Jolley's lawsuit describes two days of mistreatment at Lakeview Behavioral Health Hospital, including staff mocking her as a pill-seeker and calling her a derogatory term for transgender women.

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Delta Air Lines took off in a different direction when it comes to protecting its workforce against COVID-19. Atlanta’s largest employer announced it will require new employees to be vaccinated if they want to join the team.

Atlanta employment attorney Ed Buckley said employers have the right to mandate that their employees get vaccinated.

A former Walmart cashier who claims she was fired from her job she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and requested that a stool be available when necessary has sued the retail giant, asserting claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Limitations on Covid-19 liability lawsuits are getting an extended lifespan in several states, as the pandemic drags on and business groups continue to warn of a possible wave of litigation.

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A couple who were awarded a hefty settlement following a car wreck in 2013 have sued former professional basketball star Elliott “Dale” Davis in a Georgia trial court, claiming he cheated them out of more than $1.1 million in the guise of serving as their investment counselor. 

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Two of Atlanta’s top boutiques handling plaintiffs’ employment law cases are adding attorneys amid more work in work place law and civil rights claims.

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A former employee has filed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta alleging that she was dismissed because of her age and the condition of her health.

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Buckley Bala Wilson Mew, the preeminent civil rights and employment litigation firm headquartered in Atlanta, has hired Jay Pontrelli, a former Assistant Attorney General with the Georgia Law Department, as the newest attorney in the commercial litigation section. 

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Buckley Bala Wilson Mew LLP is pleased to announce that three Buckley Bala Wilson Mew attorneys have been recognized in the 2021 Georgia Super Lawyers rankings.

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Jesup city authorities have decided to fire Police Chief Mike Lane, who has been accused of sexual harassment and assault, after a closed session of the Jesup City Council on Tuesday.

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A southeast Georgia city is seeking to remove its police chief after three women who resigned from the department sued.

Buckley Bala Wilson Mew LLP recently moved to amend the lawsuit in Gerald Bostock's case against Clayton County, asserting a new claim for post-employment retaliation. We have alleged that Clayton County Juvenile Court Chief Judge Steven Teske made disparaging comments about Mr. Bostock after he won at the Supreme Court of the United States. Read more about this new development, as reported by Law360.

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Ed Buckley, Michael Kramer, and Anita Bala represent Hall County employees in a class action lawsuit which details how in 1998, Hall County completely changed its employees’ pension plan without fully disclosing the financial impact of the change to its employees or following an appropriate process to enact those changes.

On Wednesday, Buckley Bala Wilson Mew participated in a hearing in Hall county Superior Court regarding the estimated $75 million class action lawsuit and the summary judgment motions pending before the Court.

As Michael Kramer told the Gainesville Times: “We think that the court should grant our motion for summary judgment, that the freeze was clearly unlawfully adopted and that any freeze is null and void as matter of law…”

WSB-TV reporter Dave Huddleston recently interviewed Edward D Buckley III about a race discrimination and retaliation case we have against the Georgia State Board of Workers Compensation.

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ATLANTA (April 9, 2019)– Buckley Bala Wilson Mew, one of Atlanta’s leading employment and business litigation law firms, recently named Thomas (Tom) Mew as the firm’s newest partner.

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A federal judge in Atlanta decided to let a jury determine whether the banning of yoga in a Cobb County school advanced the cause of Christianity. Three years ago, in the face of a parental uproar, the county school board transferred assistant principal Bonnie Cole from the school where she and other teachers had introduced yoga as a calming technique. Buckley Bala Wilson Mew Attorneys Ed Buckley and Brian Green represent Ms. Cole in the case.

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The director of the Georgia Vocational and Rehabilitation Agency, Sean Casey, resigned less than three months after the state paid $1.5 million to settle claims of racial discrimination against three black administrators he fired. Buckley Bala Wilson Mew's Ed Buckley, Ashley Wilson Clark and Isaac Raisner represented the plaintiffs in this case that ultimately led to victory and justice for their clients.

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Buckley Bala Wilson Mew Attorneys Ed Buckley, Ashley Wilson Clark and Isaac Raisner, settle a race discrimination case against the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency and its Executive Director, Sean Casey, for $1.5 million. They argued that Casey and GVRA terminated three African American employees based on no other evidence than the color of their skin.

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Ed Buckley is featured in this Bloomberg Businessweek article about an age discrimination case involving the termination of beloved Nashville news anchor Demetria Kalodimos. It's no secret that gender and age discrimination run rampant in the broadcast journalism industry. Read Ed’s commentary on the case here.

In the summer of 2008, we obtained more than $65,000 for a client in a sexual discrimination case against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Most of the award was for the client's emotional distress arising out of the defendant's failure to promote our client to a position for which she was more qualified than the male that was selected.

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In late 2006, the firm won a jury verdict of $2.25 million in a sexual harassment case against an Atlanta-based chain of sports bars and its principal shareholder. Our client was the company's highest-placed female officer. The firm's trial team was led by Ed Buckley and included Dena George.

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In 2004, Ed Buckley won a $1,060,000.00 verdict against Kennesaw State University in a sex discrimination and retaliation case. Our client was a professor of music. The jury found the university guilty of sex discrimination and retaliation when it promoted a far less qualified male to the position of Chair of the Music Department.

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Two years after Fulton County lost a reverse discrimination case in federal court, the county has paid three white former employees $3.5 million in damages.

Atlanta attorney Edward D. Buckley III, a partner at Buckley Bala Wilson Mew, said the county paid the judgment on June 30, less than three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court denied, without comment, Fulton's petition for a writ of certiorari. Fulton County v. Lambert, No. 01-1568 (U.S June 10, 2002).

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A year after the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision barring workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees, gay rights advocates continue to benefit from the aftershocks even as they brace for a more challenging legal environment.

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Buckley Bala Wilson Mew Managing Partner Edward D. Buckley said a recent whistleblower lawsuit filed against credit reporting agency Equifax claims the company knowingly generated false credit reports that may have negatively impacted hundreds of thousands of consumers’ credit scores, driving up consumers’ credit card interest rates and affecting their ability to get a loan, finance a house or buy a car.

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Ed Buckley, was a guest on Thursday’s edition of “Closer Look” on WABE, and weighed in on The Biden administration pushing for employers with more than 100 employees to require mandatory vaccination or COVID testing.

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Labor lawyer Ed Buckley was asked by WSB-TV reporter Dave Huddleston for his thoughts on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate. Through OSHA, Biden does have the authority for the mandate, Buckley said.

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A nationwide worker shortage shows no signs of improving anytime soon and could get worse before it gets better. High-powered employment attorney Ed Buckley believes the current labor shortage plaguing most businesses is not going away.

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