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Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP is a progressive New York City law firm dedicated to the empowerment of women in the workplace. We represent individuals experiencing all forms of workplace discrimination, specifically those affecting women, including sexual harassment, equal pay, pregnancy discrimination and family and medical leave act violations.

Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy: What does it change?

Yasmin Nair asks some critical questions regarding transgender rights and apparent obligations in our bourgeois society. In Windy City Times.
Thomas Beatie, a transgender man who has retained his female reproductive organs and is six months pregnant, recently appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Let me be clear at the outset: I support Beatie’s decision. I also [...]

Two African-American Women File Suit Against the Garden

By Sonali Chhibber
As you will read in the NY Times article today, Tuckner Sipser filed suit yesterday against Madison Square Garden and Cablevision Systems Corporation on behalf of our clients Diane Henson and Sheila Gay-Robbins. Once again MSG has proven that it has a wanton disregard for its female employees. The people in [...]

New slavery investigation on: Tomato pickers continue to suffer

By Sonali Chhibber
A recent New York Time article entitled “Campaign to Raise Tomato Picker’s Wages Faces Obstacles” highlights the plights of tomato pickers amidst corporate clashes and compromises with the cooperatives.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers wants to raise the price of tomatoes to a penny more per pound. This would mean that the wages [...]

Even Cute Girl Lawyers Get the Blues

A New York judge has ordered court supervision of a lawyer for “objectionable conduct” toward a female opposing counsel who he said had a “cute little thing going on” during a deposition.
According to transcripts of the deposition, Thomas B. Decea of Danzig Fishman & Decea in White Plains also called Michelle A. Rice of Arkin [...]

…If our government can’t even say it, how can they stop it?

By Kristen Malone
Pop Quiz: What does the United States have in common with Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, Nauru, Palau, and Tonga?
Stumped? These are the ONLY eight nations in the world who have failed to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), a UN treaty ensuring the fundamental [...]

W to Kids: Go to Hell!

By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
Did you hear the one about W vetoing the bipartisan supported child health care bill that would have provided an expansion of the federally funded, state-run health insurance program for poor children to cover an additional 10 million children? No? It didn’t get much air play. The cost of [...]

Widows ‘R’ Us

By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
It’s nothing short of amazing to me that we all have mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and girlfriends in our lives given the objectifying, brutal and humiliating treatment we humans regularly accord the female of our species. We’re clearly not very fond of women as a general rule.
I guess it all [...]

Practice…Indifference?

Dear Charlie,
I see you’re still a candy-ass dickhead. What a great idea - couldn’t
we all just be a LITTLE LESS ANGRY? Seems like you’ve finally turned
your mamby-pamby worldview into a BOOK. Nice touch with Robert Reich
and the Dalai Lama thing. Did you split your advance so you can all get
new matching calf-skin [...]

Today’s lead story in the NY Times, “Business Lobby Presses Agenda Before ’08 Vote” should have been entitled…

Wealthy Business Owners Voting Republican Vote for Own Interests, Even if Short-Sighted and Mean-Spirited
Everyone Else Votes Republican Due to Ignorance caused By Profound Stupidity and Laziness aided by Corporate Media Collusion.

By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
The story reveals that the United States Labor Department, the Bush Administration, the GOP candidates and the powerful Business Lobby are pushing [...]

Gangsters, Hip-Hop and American Culture

By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
Some pertinent questions arise from the event, catalyzed by rapper T.I.’s real-life arrest shortly before the opening of the film American Gangster, wherein he largely plays the fictional equivalent of his apparent real life persona. Why do some facets of hip-hop are so fascinated with gangster culture? Why are we as Americans [...]