Marc Held, who represents the plaintiff, told Law360 in a Wednesday email that any business, including a gym, has a duty to protect its members from sexual assault and harassment.
“As such, a member of a gym has the right to use the gym’s facilities, including the steam room, without being touched, groped or assaulted,” he wrote.
Equinox employees have known for years that their “members were engaging in orgies, indecent exposure, masturbation, sexual assault, sexual harassment and lewd behavior in the men’s steam rooms” — yet ignored it all, according to SC’s Manhattan Supreme Court suit.
NY POST: Marc Held, Partner at Held & Hines, LLP Quoted Re: Equinox Class-Action Lawsuit Equinox gym let men have orgies in steam room: suit The men’s steam rooms at Equinox gyms are such a hotbed of lust, one Manhattan outpost let its members hold orgies there, a lawsuit claims. A man who complained after a masturbating stranger allegedly laid a hand on him during a steam said he heard the orgy claim from a manager in October. He’s one of […]
“The policy is designed to protect women from potential sexual exploitations,” Hines said. “They are either setting women up to be sexually abused or delay medical care. You shouldn’t have to choose between those two things.”
Law360: Held & Hines’ Uber Class-Action Settlement Approved by Federal Court NY Uber Drivers’ $3M Deal In Fare Cut Spat Gets Early OK Share us on: By Law360 (May 4, 2018, 4:24 PM EDT) — A New York federal judge on Friday greenlighted a $3 million settlement in a putative class action alleging Uber miscalculated taxes and deductions from drivers’ fares or falsely promised that they would earn a guaranteed income, saying the deal is substantive enough and procedurally fair. […]
https://patch.com/new-york/gramercy-murray-hill/men-equinox-steam-room-masturbated-customer-report
“It is a problem, and it’s something that every gym in New York City, not just Equinox, has an issue with,” the manager said in a conversation with the victim, a recording of which was obtained by The Post.
Law 360: Phil Hines, Partner at Held & Hines, LLP is quoted Re: Uber Case Click on the article to read more!
Thursday, January 11, 2018 Uber Agrees to Settle Class Action, Denies Taking Comp Premiums From Drivers By J. Todd Foster Uber agreed to pay more than 2,000 New York drivers $3 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleges the ride-share company illegally took a 2.5% workers’ compensation premium surcharge from drivers instead of passengers. Under the preliminary settlement, agreed to Monday but not yet signed by U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in Brooklyn, $1 million of the settlement would […]
“The $3M settlement provides long overdue compensation to the approximately 2,400 New York drivers that opted out of the arbitration provision in the Uber driver agreement,” said Philip Hines of Held & Hines LLP, the law firm representing the drivers. “The overwhelming majority of New York drivers were not able to successfully opt out of arbitration and so we are pursuing these same claims on behalf of these clients at arbitration proceedings.”
