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Employer may cross-examine employee at trial about lies

Where an employee lied about her education history on her resume and during her deposition, her former employer may cross-examine her about those falsehoods at trial. Although the employee argued the after-acquired evidence was moot because she did not seek ...

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Jury to decide if employee satisfied job expectations

Where an employee “routinely” received above-average performance reviews, and received the highest rating possible in her last two reviews prior to her termination, there was a disputed issue of whether she was satisfying her employer’s legitimate business expectations at the ...

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Real estate company sued for retaliating against worker

Where an employee was placed on a performance improvement plan and terminated soon after he requested an accommodation for his disability and questioned the denial of that request, he plausibly alleged a claim for retaliation. Background Justin Ford alleges that ...

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Ex-employee’s discriminatory termination claims dismissed

Where a former employee of an electric cooperative alleged she was terminated because of her sex, national origin, religion, race and/or age, but there were no allegations showing the decisionmaker exhibited any bias against women, Iraqi-Kurds, Muslims or older workers, ...

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Lengthy absence dooms failure-to-accommodate claim

Where an employee was absent from work for nearly 12 months, she was not able to perform the essential functions of her position, dooming her failure-to-accommodate claim. Background Lolita Matammu’s amended complaint alleges three claims for violations of the Americans ...

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Employer prevails on disability, retaliation claims

Where the record showed a company terminated an employee because she violated her duty not to disclose confidential information about employees to a third party, and because she misrepresented important details of the allegations during an investigation, the company prevailed ...

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City defeats retaliation, hostile work environment

Where a Norfolk Fire and Rescue employee was selected for random drug testing and received verbal counseling over a separate incident, those were not “adverse employment actions.” Because there was no showing these interactions were because of the employee’s race, ...

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Court rejects retaliation, discrimination claims

Where the record showed a former Fairfax County employee was terminated for excessive tardiness, the county prevailed on the employee’s claims of disability discrimination and retaliation. Background In this suit, Jonate Williams asserts three claims against Fairfax County, her former ...

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