Megan Thomas signed a contract last summer for the ad at Syracuse Hancock International Airport. She wanted it to read: “When HR called it harmless flirting … we called it exhibit A,” but the airport asked her to soften the “harsh” wording.
Syracuse, N.Y. — This summer, Megan Thomas paid for a small sign at the Syracuse airport advertising her sexual harassment law firm. The airport refused her sign, telling her she needed to “tone it down.”
Here’s how silence and softened policies can create legal blind spots for businesses, and how business owners can reduce liability and make their companies better, safer places to work. No one wanted to address it because it was uncomfortable, awkward and messy.
After officials at a Syracuse, New York, airport refused to place an attorney’s small sign advertising her sexual harassment law firm’s services, she sued—and she now has a massive ad covering two walls, according to Syracuse.com.
A lawyer sued an upstate New York airport after it rejected a small ad for her sexual harassment law firm. Now she has a massive sign there. Megan Thomas signed a contract last summer for the ad at Syracuse Hancock International Airport.
A legal battle over a small advertisement a lawyer paid for at an upstate New York airport has been resolved, and the same ad now takes up two walls at the facility
A legal battle over a small advertisement a lawyer paid for at an upstate New York airport has been resolved, and the same ad now takes up two walls at the facility
A lawyer sued an upstate New York airport after it rejected a small ad for her sexual harassment law firm. Now she has a massive sign there. Megan Thomas signed a contract last summer for the ad at Syracuse Hancock International Airport
An airport authority in Syracuse, New York, has agreed to settle a suit from an employment law firm claiming the authority violated the First Amendment when it rejected a billboard from the firm calling out companies that dismiss sexual harassment as “harmless flirting.
The Syracuse airport’s refusal to post sexual harassment lawyer Megan Thomas’s advertisement was unconstitutional, a judge has ruled.
An employment law firm tried to buy airport billboard space to advertise workplace harassment representation. Syracuse airport took the money, signed the contract, and then refused to run the ad anyway.
A federal judge has ruled that the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority violated the First Amendment rights of an employment law firm when it refused to allow the firm to purchase advertising space at Syracuse Hancock International Airport.
After nearly five months of litigation, a judge found the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority’s refusal to display an advertisement by Syracuse workplace harassment lawyer Megan Thomas unconstitutional, according to a decision filed Jan. 15.
A federal judge has ruled that Syracuse Hancock International Airport violated the First Amendment when it refused to run a sexual harassment awareness advertisement submitted by a New York workplace harassment attorney, calling the airport’s justification for rejecting the ad “nonsense.”
A Syracuse attorney’s attempt to place an ad about sexual harassment legal services at Hancock International Airport has turned into a federal court showdown.
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Sexual harassment lawyer Megan Thomas says she was told to “soften” the language of this billboard, planned to go up last week, because it could offend travelers.
A New York law firm has won permission to post an advertisement in an upstate New York airport over the airport authority’s objections to its content.
A New York federal judge said an employment law firm would probably win its constitutional challenge to the rejection of a billboard advertising its willingness to sue companies that dismiss sexual harassment as “harmless flirting,” calling a Syracuse airport authority’s concerns that the ad pushed false information “nonsense.”…
Sexual harassment lawyer Megan Thomas says she was told to “soften” the language of this billboard that was to be place at Syracuse Hancock International Airport.
Syracuse Hancock International Airport recently rejected a billboard advertising the services of attorney Megan Thomas. Those services include specialization in workplace discrimination and sexual harassment cases.
Moulton and his lawyer said that while money cannot right the wrongs done, they are happy that the defendants have been held accountable.
A jury has awarded a former Tioga County undersheriff $2 million in a defamation and false accusation case against the county and the sheriff’s office.
Wayne Moulton was awarded $2 million by a district court jury in the Northern District of New York this week. The jury ruled in Moulton’s favor that his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated, and that Howard and Sheriff’s Department Captain of Operations Shawn Nalepa made false and defamatory statements to the Department of Criminal Justice Services in 2021.
“While money can never right the wrongs done to Mr. Moulton, we are pleased the defendants in this matter have been held accountable,” said Megan Thomas, who represented Moulton alongside Sarah Ruhlen.
In a contributor piece for Eve Legal, Megan writes about why she built her practice around employees who were told they were overreacting, the “A-bomb” approach she takes to demand letters, and why she chose a contingency fee model in a market where almost every other employment attorney bills by the hour.
Megan K. Thomas, a resident of Syracuse, has founded Megan Thomas Law PLLC. Located at 220 S. Warren St. in the city of Syracuse, the firm was founded principally to assist women and minorities facing workplace discrimination and harassment.
