Pennsylvania plaintiffs firm Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky is facing a second lawsuit from a former litigation paralegal, this time alleging the firm violated the confidentiality requirement of the Americans with Disabilities Act by commenting on her vaccination status in a prior conversation with The Legal Intelligencer.

Though the ADA suit is new, the paralegal’s ire over her former employer’s words are not. Plaintiff Desiree Purvenas-Hayes has already made an unsuccessful bid to bring a related claim in her first suit against the firm—a wage-and-hour dispute—in response to firm co-founder Robert Mongeluzzi’s comments in a Legal Intelligencer story about the case.

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