Sanford Heisler, LLP announced that it filed a gender discrimination suit seeking $3 million on behalf of a senior account manager against National Basketball Association, Inc., NBA Entertainment, Inc. and NBA Properties, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaint details that the NBA's alleged unlawful treatment of plaintiff Brynn Cohn, a longtime employee who was underpaid, under-promoted and ultimately pushed out of the organization because of her gender, pregnancy, and infant care giving responsibilities. While Hoboken, New Jersey native Cohn was on pregnancy leave, the NBA's management changed her department's hours, demanding that she and other women with care giving responsibilities work at the office into the evenings even though there was no business need for the late hours. With no nearby daycare centers open during her evening shifts, and unable to spend thousands of dollars more per year for alternative childcare, Cohn was constructively forced out of the company, along with two other women with young children. The complaint announced that high-level managers in the NBA's Creative Services Department routinely expressed covert and overt hostility toward female employees who had young children. The complaint alleges violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993, the Equal Pay Act, as well as state law claims.