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Recent Cases
Angela Alioto Law Group | Recent Cases
The Law Offices of Mayor Joseph L. Alioto and Angela Alioto P.L.C. is distinguished by its expertise and national recognition in Civil Rights and Employment Law. We successfully represent individuals in the areas of work-place discrimination based on race, age, disability, gender, religion and sexual orientation, as well as harassment, wage/hour, retaliatory discharge, and wrongful termination.
Our recent cases include:
Amber Morphis v MetLife, Tomas Marron et al.
Whistelblower Fired by Metropolitan Life
Plaintiff Amber Morphis blows whistle on Metropolitan Life's fraudulent loan practices occurring when Northern California Families were losing their homes. Plaintiff was disciplined and summarily terminated for blowing the whistle on Metropolitan Life’s Fraudulent practices.
Porsche Brown v Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union
Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union Terminates Whistle-Blower CFO.
After reporting fraud by her CEO to a Board Member on multiple occasions, Porsche Brown was fired from her position as Chief Financial Officer of the Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union in Berkeley. ; Specifically, Brown refused to go along with CEO Gary Bell’s directive not to lower mortgage rates for several adjustable-rate mortgage holders. Some of these home-owner should have seen their rates fall by as much as 1% but Bell refused to lower their rates to follow the index the note was tied to.
Gilman-Veronese v LucasFilms
Pregnant Woman Not Welcome at LucasFilms.
After the employment contract to be the personal assistant to George Lucas was signed, but before Plaintiff Julie Gilman-Veronese's first day of work, she informed her immediate supervisor and Executive Assistant to George Lucas, Sarita Patel, that she had become pregnant. Upon hearing this, the Patel peremptorily told Julie not to report to work until August 11, 2008. On August 8th, 2008, Julie was summarily terminated because of her pregnancy.