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Where a pre-K special education teacher was not meeting the expectations of the Arlington County School Board, no adverse employment action was taken against him and he did not show he was treated differently from similarly situated employees outside of ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the record contained differing explanations for the plaintiff’s termination as controller, which came three months after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and one month after he began chemotherapy, a jury will decide if his employer violated the Americans ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a suit against an employer was originally filed in the name of a man who died two days before his claims were filed, there was no Article III standing and the error could not be cured through substitution of ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Judge Pamela A. Harris

Where the plaintiff was terminated as treasurer by one company and was not hired by a successive employer, his suit alleging age discrimination failed because he presented no evidence that his age was the reason for the employment decisions. Background ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a former employee of the Commonwealth of Virginia did not express displeasure at physical contact by her former supervisor and moved to a different office after her first six weeks of employment, the hostile work environment claim failed as ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Although the Virginia Department of Health argued a second failure-to-accommodate suit by an employee with cerebral palsy was barred by a prior release and settlement, or because the proposed accommodation was unreasonable, these arguments were rejected at the motion to ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the plaintiff filed suit in the Western District alleging he and a nationwide class of workers were misclassified as independent contractors, his motion to change venue to Texas was rejected because defendants and documents are located here, and Texas ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a right to-sue-letter less than 180 days after the plaintiff filed a charge of discrimination against Virginia Tech, the college’s argument that administrative remedies had not been exhausted was rejected because the EEOC ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a current postal employee failed to identify similarly situated employees who were treated differently, failed to prove a causal connection between his protected activity and adverse employment action and failed to rebut the United State Postal Service’s legitimate reasons ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the facts showed a former employee was terminated after the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, or MWAA, conducted a legitimate internal investigation into his conduct, that his complaints about the workplace were normal disagreements or managerial judgments and that he ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District