ADA & FMLA Claims

Miles & Stockbridge represents a food manufacturer in a variety of employment issues, including a wage and hour class action case. The case was highly complex involving the Fair Labor Standards Act and motor carrier exemptions to that law. We also represented the company in a disability discrimination case at the EEOC. 

Miles & Stockbridge represents a large medical system on a variety of labor and employment litigation matters. In this work, we successfully defended one of its hospitals in a case of first impression in Maryland in which the plaintiff claimed she was denied interpreter services, in violation of the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act, as a companion of a patient. We also successfully defended the medical system in a federal lawsuit in which a plaintiff alleged intersectional claim of discrimination based on race and gender under Title VII and state discrimination law. 

Miles & Stockbridge represented a municipality in a case involving an ADA claim in which the plaintiff accused our client of race discrimination. We successfully resolved this case for our client and obtained dismissal. 

Miles & Stockbridge handled a claim of FMLA retaliation for a truck manufacturer and was ultimately successful in resolving after obtaining ruling significantly reducing available damages. 

Miles & Stockbridge provided general employment advice to a U.S. division of a global commercial insurance provider, pertaining to ADA, wage and hour, FMLA, sexual harassment and contract negotiation issues.

Defended an international manufacturer in FMLA employment litigation in the United States District Court of the Western District of Virginia. Obtained a favorable settlement for the client.

Sale of a software development, systems integration and operational support company providing high-level security systems to intelligence agencies to a U.S. public company.