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The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a well-respected litigation firm with an office in Hempstead, Long Island. Our focus is primarily in the area of civil rights, voting rights, employment discrimination, police misconduct, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and criminal law. However, the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a full- service law firm handling matters in numerous areas of law and providing a wide range of services from contract formation to litigation and trial practice.

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Town of Huntington’s Motion to Dismiss Denied and Plaintiff Can Pursue His Claims of Racial Discrimination

Mr. Andrew White, an African-American male, began his employment with the Town of Huntington in 2003 at the age of sixteen as a seasonal gate attendant in the Maritime Services Department. Mr. White was stationed in Fleets Cove Beach while he pursued his high school diploma from Huntington High School. In May 2007, upon graduating from Huntington High School, Mr. White began working as a seasonal employee for Defendant Town's Highway Department. As a seasonal employee, Mr. White worked about forty (40) hours a week during approximately six (6) months out of the year.

In 2008, Mr. White began applying for any and all full-time permanent positions for which he was qualified. Plaintiff sought to be hired into any full-time position with the Defendants, but was never afforded the opportunity to be made a full-time employee. Defendants knew and were aware that Mr. White was seeking, with great eagerness, a full-time position with the Defendant Town. Over the course of the next five (5) years, from 2008 to 2013, Mr. White was the victim of a continuing pattern of discrimination based on his race as an African-American. The available full-time permanent positions were almost exclusively given to Caucasian individuals, who had less experience working with Defendant Town and/or were not as qualified as Plaintiff for said positions.

Mr. White instituted this civil action against the Defendants for violation of the Plaintiff's constitutional and statutory civil rights, brought pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (as amended), 42 U.S.C. §§1981, 1983, and New York State Executive Law § 296 et seq. and Suffolk County Human Rights Law. This action was commenced by filing the summons and complaint on June 3, 2015. Mr. White amended the complaint on December 2, 2015. Defendants moved to dismiss the complaint before the U.S. District Court and on June 21, 2016, in a decision issued in open court, the federal judge denied the motion to dismiss and allowed Mr. White to proceed with discovery to pursue his case. Frederick K. Brewington, Esq. and other members of the office worked on this case.


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