ALEXANDRIA, VA - On April 28, 2020, J. Madison PLC founder and attorney Jacob M. Small filed a religious discrimination lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of broadcast journalist and client Raeda Hamra, who wears a religious head covering, or hijab, in accordance…

ALEXANDRIA, VA - On January 19, 2018, J. Madison PLC attorneys Jacob M. Small and Benjamin R. Inman asked United States District Judge Liam O’Grady to order permanent change at the Defense Security Service (“DSS”), a Department of Defense agency that J. Madison PLC sued on client Patricia Burke’s behalf in…

A federal jury in Virginia found that a woman who works at a government defense agency was retaliated against for complaining of gender discrimination but awarded her only $1 in damages. “An agency within the Department of Defense went to war, not with one of our adversaries but with one…

A female defense agency employee said in court this month that she was isolated and harassed at the office after asking to work from home one day a week because she could not arrange child care. “The agency should have protected her right to seek the assistance of the EEO…