A cheerleading coach who worked on a defense base in Japan failed to show her age or race was the reason for her termination. The record showed multiple complaints from parents and cheerleaders, including that the coach was late to ...

Tagged with: Employment Employment Discrimination Employment Law Judge T.S. Ellis III

An employee who was not eligible for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act cannot assert an FMLA retaliation claim. The plaintiff’s Title VII retaliation claim also did not survive summary judgment because her general gripes were not protected ...

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

Where the relevant conduct in an employee’s bias complaint occurred more than 300 days before the operative charge of discrimination was filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, her discrimination, retaliation and hostile work environment claims were time-barred. ...

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

Where a federal loan servicer offered evidence suggesting a law firm operated a fraudulent scheme to create lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, the firm was ordered to produce documents because of the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client ...

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

Employees who alleged that General Dynamics Information Technology, or GDIT, violated the notice period for mass layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN Act, did not allege facts showing they were employed at a single site ...

Tagged with: Employment Employment Law Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although a woman who successfully sued a Korean news outlet under the Fair Labor Standards Act was entitled to recover her attorneys’ fees, her lawyer’s unreasonable conduct, including excessive litigation and inadequate record keeping, and overall lack of success resulted ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Leonie Brinkema U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the Virginia Department of Corrections discharged appellee corrections officer after determining she fraternized with a former prisoner, the circuit court incorrectly reversed the VDOC and awarded her $17,000 in attorney fees. Background Montgomery, the appellee, had worked as a ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals

The Western District of Virginia was the improper venue for a dispute over whether a former employee was properly terminated and paid because the employee resides in Maryland and none of the relevant events occurred here. Rather than transfer the ...

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

Where employment agreements contained non-solicitation clauses covering employees, customers and suppliers, only the employee non-solicitation clause was enforceable and could be severed from the other unenforceable clauses. Background The defendants moved to dismiss certain counts of the complaint, and all ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Rebecca Beach Smith U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although the Fourth Circuit has not applied equitable estoppel in the context of FMLA eligibility, other circuits have. Because the employee argued the employer’s statements led him to act in a certain way, the employer’s motion to dismiss was denied. ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Ivan D. Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District