A Richmond U.S. District Court says a veteran of the war in Afghanistan employed as a senior management analyst by the Virginia State Police may sue for disability discrimination based on his termination after the VSP received a diagnosis of ...

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

A female African-American hotel sales director who consistently failed to meet sales goals and complained about her male Caucasian supervisor’s rude and condescending behavior has failed to show a hostile work environment or racial animus in her termination and the ...

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

A female African-American Muslim employee of a juvenile and domestic relations court services unit who alleges race, age and religious discrimination based on denial of promotions despite her supervisory experience, disparate discipline and retaliatory termination may sue may sue for ...

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

A Roanoke federal jury has decided a former Virginia prison guard was wrongly fired for reporting alleged on-the-job sexual harassment. The female guard stands to recover more than $80,000 with awards for compensatory damages and lost earnings. After the jury ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Federal Courts Judge Glen E. Conrad

A physician’s assistant employed by the Navy who sought workplace accommodations after she underwent cochlear implant surgery for her profound deafness has stated a claim for constructive discharge based on allegations of the Navy’s delays in responding to her requests ...

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

A white female professor who was denied tenure at Old Dominion University cannot revive her Title VII retaliation claim by arguing the district court erred in granting defendant summary judgment because it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over a retaliation claim ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination

A former senior correctional officer can try her sex discrimination and retaliatory discharge claims based on evidence that defendants did not discipline or terminate other officers for “inattentiveness” when they were “throwing up sick” on duty, but the Roanoke U.S. ...

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

Although a 72-year-old African-American male lawyer was honored as “Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year” in 2009, he provided no later information about his satisfactory job performance prior to his being laid off in 2013, and the Richmond U.S. District ...

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

A male plaintiff promoted to program manager in the City of Richmond’s Department of Public Utilities states an Equal Pay Act claim with allegations that the city first offered him annual salaries of $72,000, then $70,000, before reducing the salary ...

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

A U.S. Army veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and who was fired as an x-ray technician after he made repeated threats to harm or kill other staff has not stated claims for discriminatory treatment under the Americans with ...

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