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 ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

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 ...

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

Where a former retail store employee alleged that her termination for refusing to wear a mask at work was in violation of federal and state law, her declaratory judgment claim was dismissed. Her claims and rights have fully matured and ...

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

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 ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

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, ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

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 ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

Where a former school employee failed to plausibly plead that she suffered sex discrimination or retaliation, a hostile work environment on the basis of sex or age or a had a claim under Title IX, those claims were dismissed. However ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

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 ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District