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Fett Law doesn’t just bring lawsuits, we put an end discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We make employers pay, sending a message that they will be held accountable for violating their employees’ rights. Below are just a few examples of how we have stood up for employees and made employers pay for violating their rights. 

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$10,500,000 Race and age discrimination

In a class action against Ford Motor Company, we challenged Ford Motor Company's employee evaluation system alleging it was designed to target certain employees based on race, gender, and age, with those employees ultimately receiving poor evaluations, resulting in termination. Six months after the lawsuit was filed, Ford eliminated the evaluation system and eventually settled with our clients for $10,500,000. 

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$2 million disability discrimination

Lieutenant Tommy Schuette had the courage to stand up to the Jackson County Sheriff's discriminatory behavior and record the Sheriff's multifaceted bigotry. Schuette came to us for help. We released the recordings and filed suit for disability harassment and retaliation. This case led to multiple petitions to remove the Jackson County Sheriff and was covered by media outlets throughout the country. On the eve of trial, the County agreed to a settlement totaling nearly $2 million. 

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$1,600,000 Race and national origin discrimination

Joe Peña was a laborer with the Ingham County Road Commission, and for thirteen years he was forced to endure despicable racial slurs and a hostile work environment. Joe's boss told him point blank "there are people here that don't want Mexicans, blacks or women working here. You've got to live with it." We disagreed and brought a race and national origin claim on his behalf. A jury returned a verdict of $1,300,000 for emotional distress and judgment was eventually entered for $1,600,000. 

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$1,572,000 wrongful termination and breach of contract

As appearing in MI Lawyers Weekly, this award was the second largest arbitration award in Michigan for the year 2016. Our client, Daniel Arban, was hired as Vice President and General Manager of a company in Southwest Michigan pursuant to a five year employment agreement that provided for termination only for cause.  In the event of termination without just cause, the agreement provided for liquidated damages equal to the unpaid balance of the contract at $265,000 per year. Daniel was terminated and the employer accused Daniel of various offenses in attempt to justify the wrongful termination. We discredited these alleged offenses and the arbitrators easily found Daniel was wrongfully terminated without cause.

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$1,100,000 Race and gender discrimination

On behalf of Thomas Cremonte, we challenged the Michigan State Police's promotional policies which assigned different standards based on race and gender. A jury returned a verdict of $1,100,000 and the court enjoined the Michigan State Police from further implementation of the policy.

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$1,000,000 workplace  retaliation

Workplace retaliation claim against Wayne County on behalf of multiple employees who were retaliated against for reporting sexual abuse at the Wayne County Juvenile Detention Center and for opposing discrimination. The cases were settled before trial for a total in excess of $1,000,000.

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race discrimination

Race discrimination suit brought on behalf of Donald C. Tisdale and Larron V. Hughes against their local union because its hiring hall would not refer African Americans to employers for sprinkler fitter jobs. The case settled for a confidential amount. 

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disability discrimination  

Andrew Thurston was a 911 operator for Ingham County. Despite being legally blind, he performed his duties in exemplary fashion. Then the county introduced a new software system that was not disability accessible. Instead of accommodating Andrew, Ingham County used the mistakes that were occurring as a result of the new software as a pretext to terminate him. Andrew came to Fett Law and we made them pay. We filed a disability discrimination case on his behalf, and Ingham County eventually settled the case for an undisclosed amount.

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disability and FMLA discrimination  

Becky Harte was a disability examiner for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. She never imagined the state would discriminate against her because of her multiple sclerosis. Unfortunately, the state did just that, denying her multiple promotions and interfering with her FMLA leave. We stood up for Becky, bringing a disability discrimination and FMLA interference claim on her behalf. Rather than defend its actions in court, the state settled with Becky for an undisclosed amount.

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SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Andrea Busha was a lifetime Ford Motor Company employee. She was forced to endure vile sexual harassment at the hands of her supervisor, including unwanted sexual advances, false claims she had sent the supervisor nude pictures, and sexual assaults. When Andrea complained about the sexual harassment to Ford, she was suspended. We stood up for Andrea and brought sexual harassment and retaliation claims on her behalf. The Ford Motor Company and Andrea reached a confidential settlement. 

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$488,000 workplace retaliation 

Jeff Larson was a Prison Warden for the Michigan Department of Corrections. He was retaliated against for standing up to a prison administrator's sexual harassment of Larson's subordinate. We represented both the subordinate and Larson. MDOC settled the subordinate's sexual harassment claim before trial, and a jury returned a verdict of $488,000 on Larson's retaliation claim. 

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$460,000 discrimiation settlement 

Fett Law challenged the Michigan Department of Correction's (MDOC) discriminatory promotional policies on behalf of our clients. MDOC settled with our clients for $460,000 and abandoned its discriminatory policies. 

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$440,000 sexual harassment

In the first sex harassment case ever tried on CourtTV, we brought a sexual harassment and retaliation claim against the City of Ann Arbor on behalf of Lois McWarter, resulting in $440,000 recovery. 

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$375,000 workplace retaliation 

Carmen Green was employed the University of Michigan Health Care System. When she presented research to administrators demonstrating that security was called far more often on Black visitors, she expected to be taken seriously. Instead, the University of Michigan tried to sweep the discrimination under the rug by firing Green. We brought a retaliation claim on her behalf, which was settled for $375,000.  

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