Current:Home > reviewsSecond minor league umpire sues MLB, alleges firing was retaliation for sexual assault complaint -ProfitQuest Academy
Second minor league umpire sues MLB, alleges firing was retaliation for sexual assault complaint
View
Date:2025-04-15 15:00:08
NEW YORK (AP) — A second minor league umpire joined a lawsuit against Major League Baseball, alleging he was fired after he reported he was sexually assaulted by a female umpire.
Brandon Cooper, an umpire who worked in the minor league Arizona Complex League last year, sued MLB and PDL Blue Inc., an affiliated entity, last April in federal court in Manhattan.
Alexander Lawrie joined the suit Tuesday as an additional plaintiff in an amended complaint.
Lawrie says he was a minor league umpire from 2019 until he was fired this past April 1. He said MLB cited “performance issues.”
Lawrie said in the suit he was sexually assaulted on March 17 by Gina Quartararo, a fellow umpire, following an Umps Care charity event. Lawrie alleges he was terminated in retaliation for reporting the allegation to the Association of Minor League Umpires, the union representing him.
Cooper said in the original suit that Quartararo derided him with homophobic slurs and crude remarks because he is male and bisexual.
MLB and Quartararo declined comment.
In the original suit, Cooper alleged a hostile work environment and wrongful termination and/or retaliation because of gender and sexual orientation under New York state and city law. MLB is based in New York. The amended complaint adds an additional claim of violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The suit says the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a right to sue to Cooper on July 11 and Lawrie filed a request for a right to sue on Sept. 26.
___
AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb
veryGood! (6)
Related
- Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September
- 10 reasons why Caitlin Clark is not on US women's basketball roster for 2024 Olympic
- USA's Suni Lee didn't think she could get back to Olympics. She did, and she won bronze
- West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice in fight to keep historic hotel amid U.S. Senate campaign
- Mets have visions of grandeur, and a dynasty, with Juan Soto as major catalyst
- Exonerees call on Missouri Republican attorney general to stop fighting innocence claims
- Alabama woman pleads guilty to defrauding pandemic relief fund out of $2 million
- Missouri bans sale of Delta-8 THC and other unregulated CBD intoxicants
- Where will Elmo go? HBO moves away from 'Sesame Street'
- Olympian Mikaela Shiffrin’s Fiancé Hospitalized With Infection Months After Skiing Accident
Ranking
- South Korean president's party divided over defiant martial law speech
- What Ted Lasso Can Teach Us About Climate Politics
- The Latest: Trump on defense after race comments and Vance’s rough launch
- Alsu Kurmasheva, Russian-American journalist, freed in historic prisoner swap
- Mets have visions of grandeur, and a dynasty, with Juan Soto as major catalyst
- Unregulated oilfield power lines are suspected of sparking Texas wildfires
- Former CNN anchor Don Lemon sues Elon Musk over canceled X deal: 'Dragged Don's name'
- Woman faces life in prison for killing pregnant woman to claim her unborn child
Recommendation
Paula Abdul settles lawsuit with former 'So You Think You Can Dance' co
2024 Olympics: Rower Lola Anderson Tearfully Shares How Late Dad Is Connected to Gold Medal Win
Connecticut man bitten by rare rattlesnake he tried to help ends up in coma
Olympian Mikaela Shiffrin’s Fiancé Hospitalized With Infection Months After Skiing Accident
McConnell absent from Senate on Thursday as he recovers from fall in Capitol
The number of Americans filing for jobless claims hits highest level in a year
Honolulu Police Department releases body camera footage in only a fraction of deadly encounters
Miles Partain, Andy Benesh advance in Paris Olympics beach volleyball after coaching change