Rodriguez v. Capital Commercial Solutions LLC (VLW No. 017-3-450, 5 pp.) (Ellis, J.) 1:17-cv-112; E.D. Va. Holding: In an action concerning violations of the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, plaintiff-workers correctly asserted that the ...

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

The victim of a sexual assault by a bouncer at a Virginia Beach hoo­kah bar received a $225,000 set­tlement in mediation despite not initially seeking damages. The woman filed suit in Virginia Beach Circuit Court to hold the hookah bar ...

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Fraternal Order of Police Metro Transit Police Labor Committee, Inc., v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) (VLW 017-3-447, 12pp.) (T.S. Ellis III, J.) 1:17cv644; E.D. Va. Motion to dismiss complaint for breach of contract arising from settlement agreement. Holding: ...

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In this Title VII complaint alleging a hostile work environment and discrimination in termination, a Roanoke U.S. District Court finds sufficient evidence was presented by a white woman, married to a black man, with five biracial children, to let a ...

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

A printing manager who says he was fired by a boss with a record of making anti-Christian remarks can go forward with his religious discrimination claim. A Harrisonburg federal judge has denied summary judgment in the case. The plaintiff contends ...

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

In an African-American female’s suit alleging race and age discrimination by defendant IKEA US East LLC, an Alexandria U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge orders the pro se plaintiff to pay defendant $4,792 for its reasonable fees and expenses for plaintiff’s ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Theresa C. Buchanan U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A county employee who needed one more day of FMLA leave after a shoulder injury, and who acted within the county’s deadline for notification of that need for additional leave, wins $747,320 in damages for the county’s FMLA violation in ...

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

A Norfolk U.S. District Court orders a 59-year-old optician to pay defendants $30,000 in attorney’s fees after the court dismissed plaintiff’s suit alleging age bias led his former colleagues not to rehire him as practice manager when they purchased the ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court says an African-American male school custodian can sue the school system for retaliatory discharge based on a claim that he was fired two months after complaining that a poster in the teachers’ lounge was racially ...

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

An African-American female security engineer’s complaint that a new white male chief information security officer under whom she worked on a Bureau of Indian Affairs contract did not like working with a woman in a managerial position, is not enough ...

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