April 12th, 20240DETROIT – On Monday, April 8, the Justice Department announced that a Dearborn Heights landlord, Mohamad Hussein, has agreed to pay $185,000 in damages and a civil penalty to the government to resolve the Fair Housing Act (FHA) lawsuit concerning his sexual harassment of actual and prospective female tenants. Hussein has owned and...
April 25th, 20190SOUTHFIELD — The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) served an order suspending the massage therapist license belonging to Carl Ellis of Southfield for allegations of inappropriate sexual contact with two clients.
“This case was handled collaboratively by LARA and the Department of the Attorney General and driven...
May 25th, 20180
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK — Ten women who work at McDonald’s restaurants in Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and six other cities have filed sexual harassment complaints in the past few days with the federal government against the company and its franchisees, which they said ignored or retaliated against them for such complaints.
The...
April 13th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration is launching an initiative on Thursday to crack down on sexual harassment of women by landlords and encourage victims to come forward for help from the Justice Department and Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The two departments will create a task force to combat sexual...
March 23rd, 20180NEW YORK — President Trump faced legal challenges from women on two fronts on Tuesday as a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Apprentice TV show contestant moved forward and a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump sued to undo a confidentiality agreement.
The developments increased legal pressure on Trump,...
January 19th, 20180LOS ANGELES — Less than four months after the #MeToo movement inspired a national conversation about sexual misconduct and led to the downfall of dozens of powerful American men, a backlash seems to be underway.
Women are divided among themselves, men are beginning to speak out, and words like "revenge porn" and "witch hunt" are...
January 19th, 20181By Farah Harb
DEARBORN — In the wake of the #MeToo movement that has brought down powerful men in the political and entertainment worlds and encourages organizations to take initiative to guide women on how to deal with sexual harassment in the workplace, the Arab American Women's Business Council hosted a discussion panel at the...
November 30th, 20170WASHINGTON — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called on Democratic Representative John Conyers to resign, saying sexual harassment allegations against him were serious and credible, and that “zero tolerance means consequences for everyone.”
“The brave women who came forward are owed justice,” Pelosi told...
November 21st, 20170WASHINGTON — House of Representatives Democrats called for an investigation on Tuesday into allegations of sexual harassment against U.S. Representative John Conyers (D-Detroit), who said his office had resolved a harassment case with a payment but no admission of guilt.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in a statement on fellow Democrat...
