Nobody likes to be proven wrong, least of all employers. In an effort to hire the perfect person for a position, a company may gather as much information as possible about an applicant, such as a quick review of a ...

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A Lynchburg U.S. District Court dismisses a former deputy sheriff’s suit alleging discriminatory termination in violation of federal and state disability protection laws, in the wake of his treatment for kidney stones. The ultimate effect of the Americans with Disabilities ...

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

On the magistrate judge’s recommendation, a Richmond U.S. District Court denies dismissal of claims under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 alleging defendant school superintendent discriminated against plaintiff, an African-American male computer technician and coach, by not renewing his contract ...

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

Although plaintiff, a male Caucasian professor, points to two other Caucasian professors who were denied tenure by defendant Virginia State University, a historically African-American institution, he has not stated a plausible claim of employment discrimination based on race and the ...

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

Plaintiff’s employer, defendant U.S. Postal Service, did not take adverse action against her when it corrected an administrative error in her workers’ compensation case, or when it investigated the status of her comp claim; the Richmond U.S. District Court grants ...

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

A bank branch manager fired at age 68 has shown a genuine dispute over whether her age was the “but for” cause of her termination, and the Roanoke U.S. District Court denies the bank’s motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff was ...

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

The 4th Circuit affirms summary judgment for defendant hospital in a Title VII suit filed by a female radiologic technologist because the hospital had communicated its anti-harassment policy to hospital personnel and promptly attempted to investigate plaintiff’s unspecified claim of ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Judge G. Steven Agee

An African-American male employed in a technician assembly position who alleges he has been passed over for promotion multiple times because of race cannot make out a prima facie case under Title VII, the Lynchburg U.S. District Court says; although ...

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

An African-American male and  former director of quality control for a Lynchburg manufacturer of fragrance and personal care products who alleges his racially-motivated termination ran  counter to the company’s progressive disciplinary policy, was disparate treatment when compared to Caucasian employees’ ...

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

An employee of a chain-store distribution center who filed his disability discrimination claim with the EEOC before he filed his Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition has standing to pursue his discrimination claim, the 4th Circuit says, but the claim has no ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Judge Stephanie Dawn Thacker