The City of Richmond prevailed on the failure-to-accommodate claim because merely informing a supervisor about disabilities is not sufficient to trigger an interactive process. Background Plaintiff Tyrus Yerby alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Plaintiff alleges that the ...

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

Although the plaintiff alleged the Army’s decision to suspend him pending review of his security clearance was in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, or ADEA and the Whistleblower ...

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

Where Norfolk Southern did not fail to accommodate a conductor allegedly suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the conductor failed to establish a viable nonconductor job that would have accommodated his disability. Background Plaintiff alleges that defendant failed to accommodate his ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where an employee who did not prevail on her ADA claim at a bench trial invoking the incorrect Federal Rule in asking the court to revisit its ruling, and her complaints about the court’s witness and related rulings failed to ...

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

Where there was no evidence that any of the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s alleged conduct was based on an employee’s race or age, the agency  prevailed on the hostile work environment claim. Where the employee was not satisfying ...

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

Where a psychiatrist elected to resign from the Bureau of Prisons rather than retake a test she claimed was discriminatory, she could not establish she suffered an adverse employment action because she was not constructively discharged. Background In 2014, Dr. ...

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

A former employee of the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Branch, or DLA Avn, sufficiently pleaded that he was denied training because of his race. However, he failed to plead sufficient facts to support claims for a racially-motivated poor evaluation, failure to ...

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

Although a former Army employee did not administratively exhaust her constructive discharge claim and the Army prevailed on claims for discrimination and disparate treatment based on gender, disability bias and failure to accommodate, a jury will decide if the Army ...

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

Although the former registrar for the City of Hopewell alleged it did not  reasonably accommodate her “known physical impairments,” her claims for disability discrimination, failure to accommodate and retaliation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, were dismissed because ...

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

Where a former employee sufficiently pleaded a causal connection between her discrimination charges and a subsequent demotion, her Title VII retaliation claim survived a motion to dismiss. Background Plaintiff Dr. Cherie C. Whitehurst’s amended complaint raises two counts, which share ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination U.S. District Court - Western District