Despite Page County’s objection to a magistrate judge’s ruling on a terminated employee’s discovery motion, the plaintiff is entitled to text messages on the personal cell phone of a county employee, communications between that employee and a county contractor and ...

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

Where a school human resources official was terminated, for a history of non-responsiveness and unproductiveness, the school board prevailed in proving her termination was not in retaliation for her complaints. Background Ms. Gooding-Williams raised three claims against FCSB. In Count ...

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

An employee’s discrimination claims against her employer could not be based on discrete acts that were not timely alleged in charges brought before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and, as a state agency, the employer was also immune from suit ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Ivan D. Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although the plaintiff’s claim did not expressly allege discrimination on the basis of color,  the administrative investigation revealed allegations of color discrimination that were reasonably related to the original race discrimination charge. Background Nikki A. Gardner began working as a ...

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

A firefighter did not need to specify the essential functions of his job with the Chesterfield Fire and Emergency Medical Services to sue the county for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by arbitrarily discontinuing an accommodation made for his ...

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

Where an employee was terminated because she could not wear required safety footwear due to a physical condition, General Dynamics had legitimate business reasons for enforcing its policy of requiring its workers to wear safety shoes. Background Plaintiff Shelia Holmes ...

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

Three female servers at a restaurant, who alleged that they complained to the owner of the restaurant about repeated sexual harassment by one of their managers and were ultimately forced to resign as a result of the harassment, were entitled ...

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

A Fairfax County school employee failed to plausibly allege facts showing the school board or school officials retaliated against her for filing a prior employment lawsuit. Background Kathleen Munive alleges that defendants violated 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by retaliating against ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Leonie Brinkema U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where an employee had received negative performance reviews for five years before her termination, and her termination occurred at least five months after she engaged in any protected activity, she could not pursue claims of retaliation against her employer. Background ...

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

An employee’s resignation prior to her reassignment made it impossible to evaluate whether the reassignment could be considered an adverse employment action, and because the resignation was not the result of intolerable working conditions such that it could be deemed ...

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