Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

A 50-year-old female African-American supervisor in a county social services department cannot sue the county for alleged discriminatory demotion when she returned from her honeymoon after marrying her white husband; the Roanoke U.S. District Court says the county is not ...

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

A Smyth County deputy court clerk has stated claims against the court’s chief judge, the court and the state in her suit alleging she was fired in violation of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Family Medical Leave Act and substantive ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

A former Senior Special Agent in the Lynchburg office of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles cannot show that her termination for allowing personal friction with a coworker to interfere with her professional judgment and responsibilities as a law enforcement ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff who alleges she was the oldest person in her position when she was fired as a human resources manager for Amazon has not stated a claim for retaliation under Title VII or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Asian-American who alleges discriminatory revocation of her security clearance and termination from her job as a DEA Diversion Investigator has failed to exhaust her administrative remedies for her Title VII and Rehabilitation Act claims based on alleged retaliation by ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although defendant retirement plan won dismissal of plaintiff’s ERISA suit against her ex-husband, his current wife and the retirement plan alleging plaintiff was entitled to retirement benefits despite not having a Qualified Domestic Relations Order in place, the Alexandria U.S. ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A former payroll director did not engage in protected activity under the Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower statute by reporting to her company’s corporate controller a purportedly unauthorized $856 cash payout for paid time off to a company employee; no reasonable juror could ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The 4th Circuit vacates summary judgment for a male FBI Special Agent trainee who performed only 29 of the 30 push-ups required of male trainees, in his Title VII suit alleging defendant FBI’s gender-normed physical fitness test, under which females ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Judge Robert B. King

An Alexandria U.S. District Court denies defendant defense contractor’s motion for leave to appeal the court’s earlier decision that a 53-year-old male African-American computer software engineer with extensive military intelligence experience and 12 years’ experience working as a computer software ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiff, an African-American female who served as Lead Personnel Security Specialist for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation since 2010, has her Title VII race and discrimination suit dismissed by the Alexandria U.S. District Court because she filed her complaint after ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District