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Legal Aid bias vs. white lawyer: suit
A New York City public defender who voiced her opposition to antibias training in schools is suing the Legal Aid Society, claiming she was “discriminated against on the basis of race” because she is white and effectively forced out of her job.
Maud Maron — a staff attorney who worked for the Legal Aid Society from 1998 through 2006 and then rejoined in 2017 — alleged in a lawsuit filed Monday that the nonprofit and the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys published “knowingly false statements in furtherance of ideological and political motives” following her July 2020 op-ed in The Post, which argued that anti-racism training in schools invites discrimination and harms kids.
Maron’s suit in Manhattan federal court suit claims “politically motivated” members of the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid caucus initiated a baseless investigation into her in late 2019, leading to her entire caseload being reviewed. She was “fully cleared” and the probe was “deemed unfounded,” according to Maron’s filing.
But months later, the City Council candidate penned an op-ed speaking out against having to refer to herself by her white identity at a city Department of Education anti-bias training, prompting the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid caucus to blast Maron’s “racist views” and claim that she had no business working as a public defender.
“We’re ashamed that she works for the Legal Aid Society,” the group posted in a lengthy statement.
Maron’s lawsuit blasted the “racebased statement” as false and defamatory, claiming she’s “fully capable” of continuing her career as a public defender, but the Legal Aid Society has made it “impossible” for her to keep working there.
“The Legal Aid Society also violated the guarantee of free speech . . . constructively terminating Ms. Maron for her express on personal political and social beliefs without evidence that her speech has or will directly interfere with and detract from the representation of her clients,” the lawsuit reads.
“An employer who says, publicly, it is ashamed she works there and has no business working there, is not an employer any reasonable person could be [expected] to work for.”
None of this would have happened if I just said I loved books like “White Fragility.”
— Maud Maron (above)
Maron, who is currently on sabbatical, claims the Legal Aid Society and the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by effectively forcing her out of her job.
“None of this would have happened if I just said I loved books like ‘White Fragility,’ and I’m a fan of Bill de Blasio’s proposals for changing New York City public schools, and I planned to vote for Maya Wiley for mayor,” Maron told journalist Bari Weiss Monday. “The reason they went after me is because I have a different point of view.”
A Legal Aid rep dismissed Maron’s filing Tuesday in a statement to The Post, saying: “We believe this lawsuit is a frivolous and misguided attempt to use litigation to harass a non-profit employer and its employees who have spent their careers advancing social-justice causes.”