Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:16
Buffalo Jills Class Action: Court Grants Motion to Add Defendant NFL and Retaliation Claim Against the Bills
Written by FightWageTheft
The class action and individual lawsuits against the management of the Buffalo Jills Cheerleading squad have been pending in the New York Supreme Court for Erie County since April 2014 before the Honorable Timothy J. Drury, J.S.C. The cases concern allegations that the NFL cheerleaders for the Buffalo Bills football team were misclassified as independent contractors and unlawfully deprived of minimum wage for hundreds of hours of work. In January 2015, the Court granted a motion by Caitlin Ferrari, plaintiff in the class action to amend the operative complaint. The order permits plaintiff to: assert claims against additional defendants, including…
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- 2015.01.22_Order_and_Decision_on_Motion_to_Amend_Complaint.pdf (935 Downloads)
- Second Amended Complaint (1019 Downloads)
On January 24, 2015, Chris Marlborough, principal of the Marlborough Law Firm, co-presented a continuing legal education program at the Nassau Academy of Law before one hundred new admitted attorneys. The segment, entitled “Alphabet Soup of Labor and Employment Cases,” was part of the Nassau County Bar Association’s "Bridge-The-Gap" weekend which provides all the CLE credits newly admitted attorneys need for their first two years of practice. Mr. Marlborough focused his portion of the program on minimum wage and overtime requirements of federal and New York State law. Mr. Marlborough said that he was honored to participate and noted, “It…
Thursday, 25 September 2014 12:38
Chris Marlborough Named to the Superlawyers "Rising Stars" List for the Second Year in a Row
Written by FightWageTheft
The Marlborough Law Firm is proud to announce that Christopher Marlborough has been selected to the 2014 New York Rising Stars list. This is the second year in a row that Mr. Marlborough has received this honor. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is…
Thursday, 07 August 2014 23:18
Chris Marlborough Appointed Vice Chair Of The Nassau County Bar Association Labor And Employment Committee
Written by FightWageTheft
Chris was appointed Vice Chair of the Nassau County Bar Association for its upcoming term. He will be serving alongside Committee Chairman Jeffrey M. Schlosseberg, Of Counsel with Jackson Lewis, P.C.. Chris responded enthusiastically to the appointment, saying "It is always an honor to be recognized by one's peers. I am particularly honored by this appointment, because the Committee includes some of the finest labor and employment attorneys in the country. I have appreciated the diversity of viewpoiints expressed at the Committee meetings and look forward to contributing more actively as Vice Chair." The one-year term runs from fall of…
Monday, 04 August 2014 16:50
Court Denies Motions To Dismiss Buffalo Bills Cheerleader Class Action Wage Theft Lawsuit
Written by Christopher Marlborough
The Buffalo Jills NFL cheerleaders’ class action lawsuit against Buffalo Bills, Inc. (the “Bills”), Citadel Communications Company, Ltd (“Citadel”) and Stephanie Mateczun, president of Stejon Productions Corp. (“Stejon”) will move forward after an Erie County judge dismissed in their entirety two motions to dismiss by the Bills and Citadel. The action was filed as a class action on April 22, 2014 and alleges that the Jills’ employers failed to pay them minimum wage and misclassified them as independent contractors. Defendant Bills filed a motion to be dismissed from the action, arguing that it was not the Jills’ employer because it…
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- Order on Motion to Dismiss (1258 Downloads)
- Bills Licensing and Broadcast Agreement Approved by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (1609 Downloads)
Tuesday, 22 April 2014 15:52
Former Buffalo Jills Cheerleader Fights Wage Theft
Written by Christopher Marlborough
UPDATED: MAY 9, 2014 You may have heard of the 2011 NFL lockout, when the owners of the 32 National Footbal League teams locked out the NFL players from team facilities and shut down league operations from March through July 2011 because they could not come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement with their union, the NFL Player's Association. Few, however, know the story of the 1995 and 2014 management lockouts of the Buffalo Bills cheerleading squad known as the Buffalo Jills. Since, 1967, the Buffalo Jills have been the official cheerleading squad for the Buffalo…
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- First Amended and Supplemental Class Action Complaint (1327 Downloads)
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