The jury awarded the businessman, Robert Gunning of East Rockaway, $750,000 in compensation for violations of his constitutional right to equal protection and due process.
The company, Pacific Rim, is demanding in excess of $77 million in compensation, alleging violations of "investor protections" under the U.S. trade agreement with Central America.
"As far as we know, this is the first case in the country in which a transgender person been able to obtain individual relief, including monetary compensation, for violations of the national PREA standards," Rebecca Earlbeck, an attorney with the FreeState Legal Project, the civil legal aid organization that represented Brown in court, said Thursday in a statement.
And it is the case in countless labor disputes when workers sue for compensation or violation of labor laws.
Lawyers representing the car owners calculate that they could be awarded as much as $3 billion in compensation for violation of a state antifraud statute.
Now Mr. Harmon, 68, who grew up in one of those buildings — a bow-fronted town house on West 76th Street near Central Park — has gone to the United States Supreme Court contending that New York City's rent laws constitute a "taking" of his property without just compensation, a violation of his constitutional rights.
It charges that Stevens-Henager schools paid their recruiters bonuses, commissions, and other forms of incentive compensation in violation of the federal ban on such compensation. .
Last year the U.S. Justice Department joined a separate employee whistleblower lawsuit charging that College America / Stevens-Henager schools paid their recruiters bonuses, commissions, and other forms of incentive compensation in violation of the federal ban on such compensation.
Last year the U.S. Justice Department joined an employee whistleblower lawsuit charging that College America / Stevens-Henager schools paid their recruiters bonuses, commissions, and other forms of incentive compensation in violation of the federal ban on such compensation.
In addition, riverbank vegetable gardens along the Xe Bang Fai have been flooded by the rising river, but communities have not yet received compensation, in violation of World Bank policy.
