Current Cases

On September 2, 2015, Reservists and Pilots Mitch Hall and Nathan Kay filed a federal lawsuit against L-3 Communications Corp. (“L-3”), a major defense contractor, alleging that L-3 violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (“USERRA”) by denying employment to Kay and reemployment to Hall. On February 23, 2017, Hall and Kay were authorized by the District Court to pursue their case as a putative class action lawsuit. In the class action complaint, Hall and Kay allege that L-3 discriminated against reservists who applied to work as pilots for L-3 and two of its...

In January 2014, Christina Martin filed a class action lawsuit in Washington Superior Court alleging that the Washington State Patrol (“WSP”) has failed to provide military veterans with a veterans preference that is guaranteed under Washington State law when veterans apply to become WSP troopers or apply to be promoted to the position of Sergeant or Lieutenant. Martin and the other Plaintiffs alleged that the WSP had violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act’s (“USERRA”) anti-discrimination prohibition by denying the Plaintiffs the veterans preference. On May 5,...

In 2015, Edward Quick, a former Frontier Airlines pilot who served in the U.S. Army Reserve from 2007 to 2014, filed a lawsuit alleging that Frontier Airlines did not properly reemploy him when he completed his military service in 2014 in violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act’s (USERRA). USERRA, 38 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. , is the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on military service or status, guarantees that servicemembers can take military leave from their civilian jobs, and requires employers to reemploy servicemembers when they finish their...