We won!  Thanks to the courage, hard work, and integrity of the many System Administrators who provided information, assistance, and testimony at deposition and trial, the Plaintiffs and class members prevailed at trial on December 20, 2017.  The trial was conducted in seven days spread over two weeks at the federal courthouse in New Haven for the District of Connecticut. 

The lawsuit challenges CSC’s policy of misclassifying the lowest two levels of System Administrator (Associate Professional SA and Professional SA) as exempt from the overtime protections of federal and state law throughout...

UPDATE 5/16/2017—A federal district court has granted final approval of the $7.5 million class action settlement in Cote v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., an action brought by former Walmart associate Jacqueline Cote and her lawyers, including Outten & Golden LLP, challenging Walmart’s lack of health insurance benefits for same-sex spouses of Walmart associates prior to 2014.

More information on the Settlement can be found here.

The $7.5 million proposed settlement will pay for claims by Walmart associates in the United States and Puerto Rico that they were unable to obtain health insurance coverage...

On February 7, 2017, Outten & Golden LLP and our co-counsel, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, filed a gender discrimination class action lawsuit in federal court in New Mexico against Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy research and development contractor operated by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. The case, Kennicott v. Sandia National Laboratories, was brought by three current and former employees on behalf of themselves and all current and former female employees employed by Sandia since December 17, 2008.  

For more information, please see our press...

On March 6, 2009, Outten & Golden filed suit against Monaco Coach Corporation ("Monaco Coach") seeking to recover 60 days wages and benefits for former employees of Monaco Coach under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the WARN Act). We contend Monaco Coach ordered mass layoffs on or about March 2, 2009 without providing its employees with advance written notice. Generally, the WARN Act requires companies to provide their employees with 60 days written notice in advance of a mass layoff or plant closing. In the absence of such notice, employers may be liable to each...

On September 15, 2010, Outten & Golden LLP, together with our co-counsel Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, filed a class action complaint in New York district court against Goldman Sachs on behalf of three highly credentialed women. The lawsuit accuses Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm, of engaging in a pattern and practice of gender discrimination against its female associates, vice presidents, and managing directors. The women allege violations of federal and city laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...