A federal judge ruled that the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act allows lawyers and law firms to be named as aiding and abetting defendants, but only if the plaintiff can show that the lawyer shared a common purpose to discriminate.
April 12, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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A federal judge has ruled that the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act allows lawyers and law firms to be named as aiding and abetting defendants, but only if the plaintiff can show that the lawyer shared a common purpose to discriminate.
U.S. District Judge John R. Padova’s seven-page opinion in DeStefano v. Henry Michell Co. both expands and strictly limits the potential liability of lawyers in employment discrimination cases.
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