An assistant manager for a storage-unit business wins $150,730.19 in back pay in his Title VII religious bias suit for his retaliatory termination after repeatedly stating to his manager that his Seventh-Day Adventist faith meant he could not work on ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiff’s lawyers feared they faced a high hurdle for class actions alleging employment discrimination after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2011 landmark decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes. Those lawyers may have found new hope in a May 11 decision by the ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Federal Courts U.S. Supreme Court

An African-American female restaurant employee can try her claims for Title VII hostile environment and retaliation based on her discharge after reporting two instances of a coworker, who may have been a supervisor, allegedly scolding plaintiff and calling her a ...

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

In this case concerning the certification of a class of black steel workers who allege endemic racial discrimination at a South Carolina plant owned by Nucor Corporation, a split panel of the 4th Circuit reverses the district court’s decertification of ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Judge Roger L. Gregory

Employment lawyers may be recalibrating what it takes to get into federal court on a Title VII retaliation claim in the wake of a May 7 decision by a divided 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Employers have found sanctuary ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Federal Courts Judge Robert B. King

A federal appeals court has rejected a statistical expert offered in a legal challenge to an employer’s use of background checks brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the fourth federal appellate ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Federal Courts Judge G. Steven Agee Judge Roger L. Gregory

A Coach retail store that did not hire plaintiff for a part-time job after she discussed limits on her ability to stand and walk for long periods of time due to her condition of Graves’ disease wins summary judgment in ...

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

A server at a Shoney’s Restaurant who alleged she had a digestive system disability but could successfully perform her job prior to the manager firing her after he learned of her disability, has stated a claim under the Americans with ...

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

Plaintiff, manager of the Learning Resources Center at Strayer University, may try her claim for failure to accommodate in violation of the ADA based on employer’s alleged denial of her request for a shift change from night to day shift ...

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

A female server at defendant Red Robin restaurant may try her Title VII hostile work environment claim alleging a male server made persistent sexual comments about her and other female employees and touched her against her will; the Roanoke U.S. ...

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