Donati Law

Donati Law served as class counsel in a federal class action that secured a $4.9 million settlement for Shelby County Jail inmates who were held beyond their lawful release dates after a botched 2016 rollout of Tyler Technologies' Odyssey court management software.

A Memphis federal jury found that FTS USA and Unitek USA willfully cheated nearly 300 cable technicians out of overtime pay by systematically shaving their reported hours, and the Sixth Circuit later affirmed the verdict in a published opinion.

A federal jury awarded Andrea Jaye Mosby $3,274,857 after finding that Reaves Law Firm fired her in retaliation for reporting that it paid female attorneys less than equally qualified male colleagues.

A Memphis jury sided with in-house attorney Andrea Mosby-Meachem after her employer refused a physician-ordered telecommuting accommodation during a high-risk pregnancy, and the Sixth Circuit later affirmed the verdict in a nationally cited ADA ruling on remote work.

Sheila White, the only woman at a Burlington Northern rail yard in Memphis, won a $43,500 jury verdict after being transferred to harder physical work and suspended without pay for reporting sexual harassment by her supervisor, a case attorney Don Donati ultimately argued to a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court victory in 2006.

Donati Law attorneys Brice Timmons and Melissa Stewart won a permanent injunction striking down Tennessee's Adult Entertainment Act on First Amendment grounds, the first federal court ruling to find a state drag-performance ban unconstitutional.