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On January 18, 2017, Justice Salvatore Modica of the Supreme Court of New York, Queens County, granted the Defendants’ motion to dismiss a retaliation claim brought under the New York State and New York City Human Rights Laws against a small business, its owner, and an employee. In his Order, Justice Modica adopted the Defendants’ argument that “Plaintiff failed to make allegations that s...

Legal news site AboveTheLaw.com scored the first interview with a juror from the Marchuk trial. On Marchuk’s claim that Mr. Monteverde raped her in Faruqi’s offices after the firm’s 2011 holiday party, the juror stated: “We don’t believe she was raped. She willingly went up there. She said that once she went into his office, he decided to push her or throw her to the ground — but th...

Today a federal jury rejected Alexandra Marchuk’s claims of employment discrimination against the Faruqi & Faruqi law firm and partner Juan Monteverde. Marchuk alleged that Monteverde had raped her in Faruqi’s offices after the firm’s holiday party in 2011. Marchuk also alleged that when she filed her Title VII claim, the firm retaliated against her by issuing a defamatory press release ...

On January 26, 2015, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein granted judgment as a matter of law dismissing all claims against Nadeem and Lubna Faruqi in Marchuk v. Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP. Marchuk sued the Faruqis and their law firm, claiming that partner Juan Monteverde had raped her in the firm’s offices after a holiday party in 2011. Marchuk also alleged that when she filed her Title VI...

A jury of five men and three women heard opening arguments in the case against Faruqi & Faruqi, partner Juan Monteverde and the firm’s co-founders, siblings Nadeem and Lubna Faruqi. Plaintiff Alexandra Marchuk claims that Monteverde “quickly and forcefully” had sex with her following a December 2011 party, and that the firm tolerated Monteverde’s behavior because he was a top revenue p...