The Law Firm of Omar T. Mohammedi, LLC defeats the Transit Authority’s (TA) Summary Judgment Motion and asserts Ms. Lewis’s civil rights in a prominent employment discrimination case two years following her death. In a resounding victory for Stephanie Lewis Judge Townes, the Eastern District of New York, found that there were overwhelming evidence that the TA discriminated against Ms. Lewis, Harassed her and treated her with disparity, retaliated against her, violated her freedom of religion and her First Amendment Rights and Unlawfully dismissed her.
4/5/14 Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Sandra Townes rejected a MTA motion to dismiss the lawsuit Stephanie Lewis filed in 2004. Lewis was transferred off her bus route and eventually fired for not agreeing to put a NYC Transit division logo on her headscarf due to religious reasons.
4/5/14 The family of a Muslim bus driver who battled the MTA for years for the right to wear a head scarf at work won a major legal victory — a year after her death — when a federal judge ruled her civil rights were violated. Stephanie Lewis started driving in 1989, and wore a scarf called a khimar, that matched her blue uniform.
11/1/14 OTMLAW files employment discrimination suit against the MTA on behalf Muslim client – The Justice Department sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York City Transit yesterday, charging them with discriminating against Muslim and Sikh employees who wear turbans and head scarves for religious reasons.