An African-American employee, fired based on her employer’s reasonable belief that she had mishandled company funds, can proceed to trial on her claim of hostile work environment based on both race and sex, despite evidence that she failed to disclose ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Employment Employment Discrimination Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

Despite his supervisor’s racially-tinged comments, a VDOT employee’s termination was not plausibly connected to racial or religious discrimination but was instead the result of unsatisfactory performance. Background Appellant Sinan Rayyan is a Muslim Arab-American who worked as a professional engineer ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Employment Employment Discrimination Per Curiam Opinion

The court dismissed claims by a professor at Defendant Virginia State University that it paid her less on the basis of her sex and retaliated against her after she complained. Plaintiff Zoe Spencer earned a master’s degree in social work ...

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

A reasonable jury could find that Defendant/Appellee Fairfax County did not adequately address a firefighter’s complaints of harassment and that it retaliated against her after she complained, the court of appeals held; thus, summary judgment for the County was improper. ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Judge Anthony J. Trenga Per Curiam Opinion Unpublished Opinion

In a Deputy City Attorney’s lawsuit asserting various discrimination claims, the court granted Defendant City of Hampton’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, but with limited leave to amend with allegations supporting disparate treatment. Plaintiff Veronica Meade is an African-American ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Lawrence R. Leonard U.S. District Court - Eastern District

After a jury found Defendant Main Industries Inc. liable for employment discrimination and awarded Plaintiff Louis E. Warren Jr. $150,000 in compensatory damages, the court added an additional total of $167,256 in back and front pay. According to the evidence ...

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

The court granted summary judgment to Prince William County School Board on discrimination claims by Plaintiff Kwame Yeboah-Kankam, an African-American male originally from Ghana. The court also dismissed Yeboah’s claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Yeboah was hired as ...

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

No reasonable juror could find that Plaintiff Mary David was subject to unlawful sex discrimination or retaliation by her employer, Defendant Winchester Medical Center, the district court said. David, WMC’s Director of Critical Care, alleged that Dr. Nicolas C. Restrepo’s ...

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

Overturning the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in an equal-pay case, the circuit court held that an employer did not prove its affirmative defenses so convincingly that a juror would be compelled to accept them. The Maryland Insurance Administration, ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Judge Barbara Milano Keenan

A printing manager who says he was fired by a boss with a record of making anti-Christian remarks can go forward with his religious discrimination claim. A Harrisonburg federal judge has denied summary judgment in the case. The plaintiff contends ...

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