Long Island Legal Aid Group Hit With Bias Suit by Muslim Lawyer

A former lawyer for the Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County alleged that he faced a hostile environment as a Pakistani Muslim—including repeated discriminatory statements by a judge—and faced retaliation after he filed a complaint.

Sean Imran’s lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, details “severe and pervasive” discrimination at the hands of the unnamed female judge, a problem that he said was compounded by co-workers at the indigent defense organization. The judge would frequently mispronounce Imran’s last name and make disparaging remarks about his national origin and faith, including by ...