Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has won the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit brought by a former secretary in the wake of staff layoffs during the economic downturn in 2008 the third such suit against the firm to be thrown out in the past year.
By granting Fried Frank’s motion for summary judgment, Manhattan federal court judge Robert Sweet concludes a case brought in late 2009 in which Roseanne Zito claimed she was discriminated and retaliated against because of her age, gender and a disability. News of the dismissal was first reported by Reuters.
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