Our Cases

The Law Offices of Mayor Joseph L. Alioto and Angela Alioto P.L.C. is distinguished by its expertise and national recognition in Civil Rights and Employment Law. We successfully represent individuals in the areas of work-place discrimination based on race, age, disability, gender, religion and sexual orientation, as well as harassment, wage/hour, retaliatory discharge, and wrongful termination.

Our cases include:

Theodis Carroll, Jr., et al. v. Interstate Brands Corporation

Angela Alioto obtained a jury verdict of $132 million in compensatory and punitive damages against food giant IBC, the baker of Wonder Bread and Hostess cupcakes. The plaintiffs, who had worked at the bakery for up to 30 years, suffered horrendous racial discrimination that led to denied promotions, wrongful termination and retaliation for filing suit, including receiving a steady barrage of racist jokes and insults in the workplace.

Danielle Dillard and Kim Lee v. the City and County of San Francisco

The Law Offices of Mayor Joseph L. Alioto and Angela Alioto secured a $1,139,400 jury verdict for the Plaintiffs Danielle Dillard and Kim Lee, both decades-long warrant clerks in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department.

The jury unanimously found that Plaintiffs proved their claims that they were targeted by white employees and subjected to a hostile work environment based on despicable, racially-focused harassment, which included presentation of a noose in the workplace. The jury also unanimously found that the Sheriff’s Department failed to properly investigate Plaintiff’s complaints of discrimination and harassment. 

Rosemary Valladares, Ramon Delgadillo, and Jugo Perez v. Madera Quality Nut Inc., et al.

Angela Alioto secured a $25,208,100 jury verdict for Plaintiffs Valladares and Delgadillo, who were demoted and then fired after they complained about and blew the whistle on an insurance fraud scheme at the company.

Claudine Woolf v. Mary Kay Inc.

Angela Alioto secured an $11.25 million jury verdict for Plaintiff Claudine Woolf, as jury agrees cosmetics giant Mary Kay retaliated against her for seeking sick leave while pregnant and fighting cancer.

Frank Allen v. Radio Shack Corporation

ANGELA ALIOTO FIGHTS, WINS $1,030,000 JUDGMENT AGAINST RADIO SHACK for age discrimination and retaliation for making complaints of race and religious discrimination.

Porsche Brown v. Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union

Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union Terminates Whistle-Blower CFO. 

After reporting fraud by her CEO to a Board Member on multiple occasions, Porsche Brown was fired from her position as Chief Financial Officer of the Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union in Berkeley.  Specifically, Brown refused to go along with CEO Gary Bell’s directive not to lower mortgage rates for several adjustable-rate mortgage holders. Some of these homeowners should have seen their rates fall by as much as 1% but Bell refused to lower their rates to follow the index the notes were tied to. 

Gilman-Veronese v. LucasFilms 

Pregnant Woman Not Welcome at LucasFilms. 

After the employment contract to be the personal assistant to George Lucas was signed, but before Plaintiff Julie Gilman-Veronese’s first day of work, she informed her immediate supervisor and Executive Assistant to George Lucas, Sarita Patel, that she had become pregnant.  After learning Julie was pregnant, LucasFilms immediately canceled her first day of work, kept her in limbo for over a month and then, ultimately, fired her.

A Marin County jury found that LucasFilms committed pregnancy discrimination and failure to prevent pregnancy discrimination, wrongful termination, and failure to promote the Plaintiff.