The 2014 speaker was Desiree Rogers, CEO of Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of EBONY and JET magazines. District Court Judge Ruben Castillo, the first Hispanic federal judge in Illinois and a firm alumnus and, in 2003, a little-known Illinois state senator, civil rights lawyer and community organizer named Barack Obama. Other luminaries who have addressed the event through the years have included Michele Coleman Mayes, one of America’s top black lawyers and most influential general counsel Camilla Taylor, Lambda Legal’s national marriage director civil rights icon Ruby Bridges U.S. Attended by summer associates and attorneys from all offices, the annual dinner celebrates diversity and honors the firm’s diversity scholars. On this day in 2001, federal District Court Judge George Leighton, the first African-American judge to sit on the Illinois Appellate Court, keynoted the firm’s first Diversity Dinner. Sadly, the Food Lion matter would be Bruce’s last major case before he succumbed to cancer.ĬATEGORIES: 1995-2004, Equal Time, LGBT, newsletter SeptemFirm Hosts its First Diversity Dinnerĭiversity Dinner guest speaker Ruby Bridges, center, meets the firm's 2013 scholars from left: Kara Ingelhart, Bide Akande, Kara Trowell and Mikael Rojas. On this day in 1999, the Fourth Circuit rejected Food Lion’s fraud claim (and the $316,000 in damages tied to it) and upheld the trespass and breach of loyalty claims, but reduced the damages to $3. On appeal, Bruce argued that Food Lion sought to skirt daunting First Amendment standards to prove defamation by suing ABC not for libel but rather for violations of state law. In 1997, a jury awarded Food Lion $5.5 million, although a district court judge later reduced that to $316,000.
Food Lion sued ABC for fraud, trespassing and breach of loyalty. Using cameras hidden in wigs, the reporters videotaped the practices and featured the footage on Primetime Live in 1992. The case centered around two reporters who posed as Food Lion employees after receiving a tip about unsanitary food practices. OctoFirm Successfully Appeals Food Lion Verdict Against ABCīruce Ennis successfully appealed a judgment against client ABC, sued by a grocery store chain after the television network aired an unflattering exposé.
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