A hearing-impaired physician assistant wins the right to sue the Navy and the Navy contractor who hired her under the joint employer doctrine for an alleged failure to accommodate her hearing impairment under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the ...

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

A 64-year-old male who alleged that upon his return to work after treatment for prostate cancer, he faced reduced hours, an office relocation that required him to walk farther through a refrigerated area and discipline for not submitting invoices, which ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court denies reconsideration of the court’s earlier decision holding that one plaintiff police officer’s Facebook comments, about rapid promotion of officers with limited street experience affecting “officer safety and questions of liability,” addressed safety issues of ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge James R. Spencer U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Abingdon U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant school board in a former school bus driver’s suit alleging he was fired in violation of his First Amendment rights in retaliation for complaints about a coworker’s sexual harassment and ...

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

An industrial welder who alleges he made contributions to defendant Boilermaker Blacksmith National Pension Trust when he performed welding work on Boilermaker projects, and who claims he was not notified that breaks in covered employment would cause him to forfeit ...

Tagged with: Employment U.S. District Court - Western District

Plaintiff supervisory special agents in the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime – three females and one male – cannot show a hostile environment with isolated comments about female agents having children to “settle them down” or ...

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

A Petersburg police officer whose Facebook comments about rapid promotion of police officers with limited street experience were protected by the First Amendment wins $14,156  in attorney’s fees in a decision from Richmond U.S. District Court; plaintiff prevailed against only ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge James R. Spencer U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court denies plaintiffs’ motion plaintiffs partial summary judgment and holding that one plaintiff police officer’s Facebook comments, about rapid promotion of officers with limited street experience affecting “officer safety and questions of liability,” addressed safety issues ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge James R. Spencer U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A pharmacy technician’s claim that defendant disability carrier defamed her in letters to her doctor and employer when she applied for disability benefits is preempted by her federal ERISA suit; the Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff’s state law defamation ...

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

Fired by his employer, an executive at a high-tech marketing company sent “inflammatory text messages” threatening to “steal” its customers and “poach” its employees before he went to work for a competitor several weeks later. The executive left with a ...

Tagged with: Employment Federal Courts Intellectual Property Judge Leonie Brinkema