A federal judge in Manhattan has weighed in on a pregnancy and breast pumping-based putative class action discrimination lawsuit launched against Avon, turning back a defendant’s motion to compel one named plaintiff into arbitration while dismissing certain claims by individual plaintiffs.
The lawsuit will continue and potential class certification has not yet been decided, but U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick of the Southern District of New York’s early-stage decision has pared down the suit—getting rid of one of three named plaintiff’s multiple claims entirely and tossing out certain federal Title VII and New York State Human Rights Law claims made by one or both the remaining individual defendants.
