{"id":134155,"date":"2025-09-30T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/30\/suspect-circumstances-dla-piper-cant-stamp-out-ex-associates-pregnancy-bias-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:58:09","slug":"suspect-circumstances-dla-piper-cant-stamp-out-ex-associates-pregnancy-bias-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/30\/suspect-circumstances-dla-piper-cant-stamp-out-ex-associates-pregnancy-bias-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Suspect Circumstances’?: DLA Piper Can’t Stamp Out Ex-Associate’s Pregnancy Bias Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The law firm had argued that it had fired Anisha Mehta because of performance issues. But observing that Mehta had been fired “in suspect circumstances,” U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres found that Mehta had presented enough evidence suggesting she was fired because of her pregnancy and upcoming maternity leave.<\/p>\n

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The law firm had argued that it had fired Anisha Mehta because of performance issues. But observing that Mehta had been fired “in suspect circumstances,” U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres found that Mehta had presented enough evidence suggesting she was fired because of her pregnancy and upcoming maternity leave.<\/p>\n

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The law firm had argued that it had fired Anisha Mehta because of performance issues. But observing that Mehta had been fired “in suspect circumstances,” U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres found that Mehta had presented enough evidence suggesting she was fired because of her pregnancy and upcoming maternity leave. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The law firm had argued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/legal-news-XsEsHV.jpg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}