$750K gender discrimination judgment from 2012 upheld

Prathima Reddy, the owner of The Reddy Law Firm in Buffalo, called it a landmark decision in moving closer to the elimination of discrimination in the workplace. A more than two-year-old settlement in favor of an African-American female and former physician at Albion Correctional Facility, who allegedly faced years of racial and gender discrimination from the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, was upheld recently by the Court of Appeals. At the Feb. 11 term of the…