Where a Black guest at a Hilton hotel alleged that while waiting in the lobby he was asked to produce identification and a room key when white guests were not similarly harassed, he plausibly stated claims for discrimination under federal ...

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A Black customer of the Hilton Downtown Richmond hotel can proceed with his discrimination lawsuit over alleged harassment by a security guard, even though he was never denied room accommodations. That was the ruling Dec. 4 by U.S. District Judge ...

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Where the defendant mail carrier was in possession of mail consisting largely of holiday cards that often contain gift cards or cash more than two months after it should have been delivered, and provided no reason why she held on ...

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Although the purchaser of gasses used in the manufacture of steel pipes argued the defendant breached the product agreement by increasing prices by more than 2% per year, it waived enforcement of the price-escalation provision by buying (without complaint) gasses ...

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Although 15 months elapsed between the date the school board learned about a teacher’s membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the decision to not renew her contract, four discrete incidents of retaliatory animus that ...

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Where the police had a lawful basis to arrest the defendant, whose phone was “within inches” of his hands at the time the police approached him, the phone was properly seized as a search incident to arrest related to child ...

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Where there was a 4½-year gap between the protected activity and the adverse employment action, and no recurring pattern of retaliatory conduct to bridge the temporal divide, the plaintiff’s retaliation claim was dismissed. And because the ADA’s nondisclosure provision did ...

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Where the substitute trustee sought to appeal from an order granting the bankruptcy trustee partial summary judgment on claims for breach of fiduciary duty and violation of the automatic stay, the appeal was denied because there was no final order ...

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The customer, an African American woman who strictly adheres to the Islamic faith, including the traditional dress code, alleged that the store refused service until she showed her face, and then called the police to remove her from the store. ...

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A party that was not aggrieved by the bankruptcy court’s order because it lacked a pecuniary interest in its outcome lacked standing to appeal the denial of that order. Background Mar-Bow appeals several orders of the bankruptcy court. The orders ...

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