A woman who alleges gender discrimination in her discharge from her job as a milker at defendant dairy succeeds in striking affirmative defenses pleaded by employer that do not meet the pleading standard under Twombly and Iqbal. Defendants asserted 18 ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge James G. Welsh U.S. District Court - Western District

Given the transitory nature of plaintiff’s injuries – on the job and in an automobile accident – as well as the types of restrictions placed on her during a period of temporary disability, plaintiff, a fabric worker for the military, ...

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

Hiring Hispanic housekeepers for seven of eight jobs at a Best Western hotel that was undergoing a $5 million makeover by new ownership did not violate Title VII, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says as it dismisses the EEOC’s complaint. ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A defendant school board wins summary judgment in this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging violation of tenured school administrators’ rights in their eventual reassignments, in this case from Abingdon U.S. District Court. This case arose after the Virginia ...

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

A school superintendent is dismissed as a defendant from an age discrimination suit filed by the school system’s former Director of Community Relations, a 60-year-old woman who alleges she was forced into early retirement and replaced by her 37-year-old male ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Dennis Dohnal U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A woman who worked four months as a hostess at the Applebee’s restaurant at Richmond International Airport loses on summary judgment her suit for retaliation and sexual harassment based on her complaint that a male manager touched her arm suggestively, ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Roanoke U.S. District Court grants defendant school board summary judgment in this Title VII suit filed by an African-American female employee who alleges a racially hostile environment from two allegedly racially derogatory comments – including a comment about plaintiff’s ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Samuel G. Wilson U.S. District Court - Western District

The only female employee of a Northern Virginia remodeling firm has won a discrimination suit against her employer for denying her health insurance coverage after calling her a “breeder.” Sandra Porter, a single mother, worked as general manager for the ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Federal Courts Insurance Judge Liam O'Grady

In this first-impression case, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says an African-American plaintiff can bring a Title VII race discrimination claim against the indirect subsidiary of an Alaska Native Corporation, which is an “employer” under 43 U.S.C. § 1626(g). In ...

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

A ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that the enforceability of an employment arbitration agreement was for an arbitrator to decide – even though the employee claimed the agreement was unconscionable – has drawn the ire of lawyers and lawmakers ...

Tagged with: ADR Employment Discrimination U.S. Supreme Court