Where a former state government employee alleged she was terminated because of her race or religion, but there was a documented history of attendance and timeliness issues across multiple years and multiple supervisors, the employer prevailed on the discrimination claims. ...

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

Where an assistant store manager allegedly hugged or touched an employee 10 times over a three-month period, and kissed her when she returned to work after surgery, he lacked the intent required for assault and his conduct did not amount ...

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

Where the first suit filed by a former Department of Veterans Affairs employee was dismissed more than one year after she was warned that her failure to serve all defendants would result in dismissal, and she waited 104 days to ...

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

Where the former vice president for a title company alleged that his supervisor refused to meet with him to discuss why he had not received a raise shortly after he complained that another employee was harassing a co-worker, a jury ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a woman alleged that, over multiple years of employment at a wine importer, her job was contingent on whether she was having sex with the owner, she plausibly alleged a claim for quid pro quo sexual harassment. Background Plaintiff ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Thomas T. Cullen U.S. District Court - Western District

Where Liberty Tax, the tax preparation franchisor, failed to show that the confidential information its former in-house counsel obtained during his six-year tenure was substantially related to the issues in the case, its motion to disqualify him was denied. Background ...

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

Where the company moved to disqualify counsel representing an employee in her civil rights case because it was representing a co-defendant in a separate case involving the company’s successor corporation, the motion was denied because there was no actual or ...

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

Where a company argued a prior release with the employee barred his Title VII claims, it was denied judgment on the pleadings because the employee argued that he never obtained the $100 consideration required by the agreement, the consideration was ...

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

In a case of first impression, the court joined other circuits in holding that, while the Supreme Court in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, 523 U.S. 75 (1998), identified three evidentiary routes for employees to prove they are victims of ...

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

Where the former Selective Service System employee’s bias and whistleblower claims first needed to be exhausted before the Merit Systems Protection Board, or MSPB, the board failed to act for more than 500 days so the employee could proceed to ...

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