On July 18, 2026, the Staten Islander News Organization reported on ECBAWM’s class action lawsuit filed with co-counsel Vladeck, Raskin & Clark P.C. challenging UPS’s package delivery practices at the Park Hill and Fox Hill apartment complexes on Staten Island.

The lawsuit challenges a policy that UPS has maintained for decades, which requires residents of those complexes to retrieve packages from a designated UPS truck pickup location, rather than receiving direct building delivery. ECBAWM’s lawsuit brings claims under a disparate impact theory: that UPS treats the residents of Park Hill and Fox Hill complexes, who are 99% non-white, less well than similarly situated neighboring complexes with a higher proportion of white residents.

The article featured comments from ECBAWM’s co-counsel, Maia Goodell at Vladeck, Raskin & Clark P.C., who explained that “[t]his case challenges a discriminatory corporate policy that singles out Park Hill and Fox Hill.”

The story also highlighted a letter from lead plaintiff, Gordon Flowers, who stated that “[t]he lack of this service is discriminatory to racial demographics [that are]  predominantly black and Latinos of the neighborhood. I believe this is a matter of community equity and consumer rights that requires organized advocacy to ensure that residents of all ethnic types receive this paid reliable and essential service.”

To read the full article, click here.

The plaintiff class is represented by ECBAWM attorneys, Andrew Wilson, Diane Houk, Matthew Brinckerhoff, and Laura Kokotailo, as well as paralegal, Toby Shore..