Religious Discrimination

Article originally appeared on June 8, 2019 in the Olean Times Herald. Dr. Pauline Hoffmann had felt comfortable being a Wiccan at St. Bonaventure University. She first started researching Wicca as a student at the Franciscan Catholic university in the early 1990s, and after joining the university’s faculty in 2006…

Article originally appeared on June 6, 2019 in The Buffalo News. Pauline Hoffmann resigned her post as dean of St. Bonaventure University's communication school, but says she did it under pressure. She also claims the school denied her a promotion to provost, the university's highest academic position. Why? Hoffmann says…

Article originally appeared on June 6, 2019 on WIVB.com. An associate professor at St. Bonaventure says university officials discriminated against her when she was the dean of communications because of her gender and Wiccan religious beliefs. As a result, Pauline Hoffmann, of Franklinville, filed a complaint in federal court against…

Last week news broke out about a writing assignment given by a teacher at an Albany High School to challenge the students to “formulate a persuasive argument” tasked with them writing an essay about why “Jews are Evil,” as if they were trying to convince a Nazi official of their…

Article appeared in The Buffalo Jewish Review, June 1, 2012 The Plaintiff was employed as a truck driver by Carson & Roberts from April 2006 until May 2008. During the period the plaintiff was supervised by Unangst and Gingerelli, descrobed as "bookend partners," who shared an office in a building…

Article appeared in The Buffalo Jewish Review, June 4, 2004 A supervisor who had worked for a company for 18 years claimed she was wrongfully terminated when she was accused of gross violation of company policies for counseling a subordinate based on her religious beliefs that opposed the subordinate's homosexuality.…