GSA Helps Secure Decision that Protects Thousands of Haitian TPS Recipients from Deportation
GSA partner Raymond Audain – with co-counsel BCLP, Ira Kurzban, Kevin Gregg, and Sejal Zota at Just Futures Law – helped secure a decision that protects hundreds of thousands of Haitian TPS recipients from imminent deportation. The Honorable Brian M. Cogan in the Eastern District of New York found that the Trump administration’s attempt to prematurely terminate Haiti’s TPS is unlawful. The ruling is an important victory for TPS recipients and their families, and an important victory for the rule of law. The case is Haitian Evangelical Clergy Ass’n v. Trump, 1:25-cv-1464 (E.D.N.Y.).
Articles on the case are widely available online, including in the following publications:
GSA Obtains $6.2M in Retaliation Case
On June 4, 2025, GSA and Walden Macht Haran & Williams prevailed at trial on plaintiff Denise Rubin’s behalf in a retaliation case she brought in 2015 against her former employer, Paul Napoli. The jury found in favor of Ms. Rubin not only on her retaliation claim, but also her quantum meruit claim, and awarded her compensatory and punitive damages in the amounts of $330,000 and $5.8 million, respectively. The case is Denise A. Rubin v. Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik, LLP, et al. (Index No. 154060/2015). Read the press coverage of the verdict here and here.
GSA Files Sexual Harassment, Retaliation Suit Against City of New York and DOE Principal
GSA Partner Amy E. Robinson, on behalf of four public school educators, has filed a sexual harassment and retaliation suit against the City of New York and DOE Principal William Bassell. The complaint alleges that Bassell, who was arrested in May, “has been treating a New York City high school as his personal playground for sexual fulfillment” and has enjoyed the protections of the DOE for more than a decade. One of the alleged victims in this case was only 16 years old when she was sexually assaulted by her school principal. The suit alleges violations of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as well as federal, state, and local law. The case is Kohn et al v. City of New York et al, 1:25-cv-04831 (E.D.N.Y). Read the complaint and early press coverage of the case here and here.