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A defense contractor wins summary judgment in this FMLA suit filed by a former senior director who took medical leave for severe injuries to his hand from falling off his roof; the 4th Circuit says plaintiff was restored to an ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

The 4th Circuit upholds a district court decision denying a class of retirees’ challenge to their former employer’s unilateral alteration of their retiree health benefits, because the governing collective bargaining agreement does not provide for vested retiree health benefits. Standard CBA clause ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

A chief operating officer for a consulting firm that works with public sector entities cannot rebut his employer’s claim that he was demoted, then fired, for his failure to investigate a client agency’s complaint against an employee and failure to ...

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

In this ERISA case which is before the 4th Circuit for the third time, the appeals court affirms a district court decision that defendant fiduciary’s breach of a duty of procedural prudence did not cause the substantial losses in the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

The Supreme Court of Virginia reverses dismissal of plaintiff’s suit challenging defendant town’s termination of him as the executive Building Official in charge of the town’s building department; plaintiff sufficiently stated a claim to permit a reasonable inference that he ...

Tagged with: Employment Supreme Court of Virginia

In this ERISA action filed by the Department of Labor seeking to hold defendants liable for purported breaches of fiduciary duties under a failed ESOP, the Roanoke U.S. District Magistrate Judge denies a defendant’s motion to compel DOL to produce ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Robert S. Ballou U.S. District Court - Western District

A former Petersburg police officer who alleges he was dismissed in retaliation for alerting defendants, including the police chief, a police captain and an assistant commonwealth’s attorney, of alleged improprieties of another officer in conducting investigations, has failed to state ...

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

An African-American middle school principal who was reassigned to an administrative position as Director of Achievement Gap Initiative can sue defendant school board and three of its members for defamation for a statement alleging that teachers and staff at plaintiff’s ...

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

A Caucasian male, born in 1965, and a veteran with a 60 percent compensable disability rating from the Veterans Administration, has not supported his age, gender and disability discrimination claims relating to the defendant Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s decisions, including ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A 50-year-old female who alleges she was the first and only African-American supervisor in the Franklin County Department of Social Services prior to her discriminatory suspension and demotion, may try her claim that race motivated the decision to demote her; ...

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