Plaintiff’s age discrimination suit is not barred by judicial estoppel because he failed to disclose his EEOC charge in his bankruptcy proceeding; the Richmond U.S. District Court finds the bankruptcy court did not “accept” plaintiff’s position that he had no ...

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

A Lynchburg U.S. District Court says there are issues of material fact on employer’s response to plaintiff’s requests for accommodation of her severe and chronic allergies aggravated by mold exposure in the workplace. Plaintiff alleges she suffers from chronic allergies ...

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

An employer’s concerns about plaintiff welder’s work limitations of being unable to look up for lengths of time or weld overhead were concerns for a safe workplace, not pretexts to avoid hiring him because of his prior neck injury, and ...

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

An Abingdon U.S. District Court denies reconsideration of the magistrate judge’s denial of plaintiff’s motion to compel production of income tax returns of plaintiff’s former employer, in plaintiff’s suit alleging the employer discriminated against him based on age and race ...

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

A plaintiff who is blind in one eye and who previously sued defendant employer for wrongful termination under the Americans With Disabilities Act may proceed with his failure-to-hire claim; the Danville U.S. District Court says the evidence is conflict as ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District

In plaintiff’s class action suit to recover 60 days’ wages and benefits under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act for defendant company’s alleged failure to warn of mass layoffs, plaintiffs are not entitled to a jury trial, says the ...

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

A plaintiff who failed defendant hospital’s family medicine residency program who alleges race and gender discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation for working hours in excess of established guidelines under the American Council for Graduate Medical Education, has not stated claims ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge David J. Novak Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An employee of the Federal Reserve Bank who was hospitalized for alcoholism and depression could be terminated for attendance problems, failure to notify the Bank of his absences, and taking a company car to oversee a project in Baltimore and ...

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

In this 66-year-old African-American male mathematics professor’s suit alleging violations of the Equal Pay Act by defendant Norfolk State University, the Norfolk U.S. District Court conditionally certifies a class of similarly situated male professors, based on NSU’s submission of its ...

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

A time-share salesman for the Massanutten resort who was demoted, then terminated and designated ineligible for rehire cannot show adverse employment action was based on his complaint of discrimination in favor of another salesman who had a romantic relationship with ...

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