287 results for 'cat:"Civil Rights" AND cat:"Employment" AND cat:"Employment Discrimination"'.
J. Suddaby rules in favor of a healthcare provider and dismisses a 66-year-old’s age discrimination complaint that claims it denied his application for a position as a sleep physician on the basis of his age. One of those involved inadvertently sent him an email which allegedly suggested the company was actively refusing to hire older applicants. The applicant suffered no injury because he voluntarily withdrew from consideration after being scheduled an in-person interview. As well, he fails to show that anyone involved in the decision to hire him harbored discriminatory animus after the company removed the email’s sender from the hiring process once they learned what she had said in the email.
Court: USDC Northern District of New York, Judge: Suddaby, Filed On: February 1, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv178, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, employment Discrimination
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J. Whitney grants a utility provider’s motion to dismiss allegations of race discrimination brought by a former engineer after the provider failed to promote him and allegedly told him he’d never be in a leadership position. The engineer, a Black man, claimed the provider would not promote him based on his race, so he began working for another provider. He claims he received similar treatment there as well as a pay cut, which he believes is because of the companies sharing information about him. However, under federal discrimination law, the subject incidents happened too long ago and are time-barred.
Court: USDC Western District of North Carolina, Judge: Whitney, Filed On: February 1, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv333, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, employment Discrimination
J. Flanagan denies a former county sheriff’s motion to dismiss allegations of race discrimination brought by a former captain of the county’s detention center after the sheriff demoted her then fired her shortly after he was elected to office. The captain, the only Black woman on staff at the time, worked in the office since 1998, had several promotions since, and allegedly had an excellent performance record. Within a month of his placement, the sheriff, a white man, demoted the captain and replaced her with a less-qualified white woman. He also demoted another Black employee, and on a phone call with a white staff member, was recorded saying, “I’m sick of these Black bastards. I’m gonna clean house and be done with it,” along with other derogatory remarks. When the sheriff fired the captain not long after, he cited an incident when she had forgotten to pay for some bags of pecans at a store, then returned to pay for them, characterizing this as behavior as “unbecoming.” The state filed a removal petition against the sheriff based on the race discrimination claims, at which time he resigned. He was elected again, and again he demoted Black staff members. The state filed a removal petition a second time, and again he resigned. The captain has sufficiently evidenced a claim for race discrimination.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Flanagan, Filed On: February 1, 2024, Case #: 7:23cv1177, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, employment Discrimination
J. Flanagan denies a Butterball employee’s motion for reconsideration of a previous denial of leave to amend in this race discrimination suit. The employee alleges he just wanted to change pseudonyms in the original complaint to the individuals’ real names, to add them as defendants. However, suits under Title VII of the Civil Right Act may not be brought against individuals.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Flanagan, Filed On: January 31, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv147, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, employment Discrimination
J. Grasz finds a lower court properly dismissed a department of corrections hobby craft specialist's race and sex discrimination claims. The former employee argued that the department of corrections terminated her role because she is Black and female. However, the department of corrections sufficiently showed in court that she was let go for unsatisfactory performance, theft of property, and mishandling funds for personal use. Affirmed.
Court: 8th Circuit, Judge: Smith, Filed On: January 26, 2024, Case #: 23-1413, Categories: civil Rights, employment, employment Discrimination
J. Boyle grants a hospital’s motion to dismiss allegations of religious discrimination brought by an employee who claims the hospital did not provide her a religious exemption in regards to a Covid-19 vaccine mandate. However, the employee failed to name any discriminatory behavior to which the hospital subjected her, nor did she explain what religious beliefs on her part are in conflict with the mandate.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Boyle, Filed On: January 23, 2024, Case #: 5:22cv507, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, employment Discrimination
J. Hamilton finds that the lower court properly found for the city, ruling that the Madison fire department's physical test for firefighters had a disparate impact on women, but did not violate Title VII because it served the city's legitimate purpose in ensuring that firefighters have the physical abilities to perform in their demanding job. Furthermore, Madison has a higher-than-average rate of hiring and retaining female firefighters, showing that its test performs well at selecting qualified candidates. Affirmed.
Court: 7th Circuit, Judge: Hamilton, Filed On: January 22, 2024, Case #: 22-2433, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
J. Ellis partially grants Chicago’s motion for summary judgment on sex discrimination claims brought by women who wanted to be city paramedics. The cadets were injured while performing trials in the Chicago Fire Department’s physical aptitude test, trials that even internal experts claimed really weren’t of much use in evaluating firefighters’ and paramedics’ job readiness. Multiple lawsuits followed. The city settled some of those suits and moved for summary judgment in this one. The court now denies Chicago summary judgment on the paramedics’ internal discrimination claim, and splits judgment on the paramedics’ Monell claim. It grants the claim “to the extent plaintiffs rely on a widespread policy or practice,” but denies it “as to plaintiffs’ claim that they suffered a constitutional injury at the hands of a final policymaker.”
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Ellis, Filed On: January 22, 2024, Case #: 1:16cv10156, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Municipal Law, employment Discrimination
J. Borden grants summary judgment in favor of Mercedes-Benz in this employment dispute brought by a former employee who is a Black female alleging discrimination and retaliation due to her age, race and gender. The former employee did not address the age discrimination in Mercedes-Benz summary judgment motion, the court deems this to be abandoned. The opposition brief shows the stated reason for termination with no circumstantial evidence of race and gender discrimination or retaliation.
Court: USDC Northern District of Alabama , Judge: Borden, Filed On: January 22, 2024, Case #: 7:21cv1618, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Boyle grants a city government’s motion for summary judgment after a Black former police lieutenant alleged that two of his white deputies racially discriminated against him when they called for a state and federal investigation into whether he was working a second job while on the clock for the city. As it was discovered, a third deputy initiated the investigation, which ultimately found that the lieutenant and the police chief, also a Black man working the same second job, had inconsistencies between recorded hours at both jobs, leading to their arrests. Thus, the lieutenant’s claims fail.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Boyle, Filed On: January 18, 2024, Case #: 7:21cv130, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, employment Discrimination
J. Urbanski denies the jail's motion to dismiss a sex discrimination claim. The correctional officer sufficiently pled that despite her receiving a reprimand for her part, her male counterparts were not disciplined for a verbal confrontation, that she made lower pay than seven of her male coworkers and was fired for fewer reasons than males.
Court: USDC Western District of Virginia, Judge: Urbanski, Filed On: January 8, 2024, Case #: 5:22cv57, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Torres denies a former Customs and Border Patrol employee’s motion for appointment of counsel after she sued the agency on her own behalf for discrimination. Not only is the employee unlikely to succeed in her case, but she has demonstrated “sufficient financial resources to continue her search for counsel,” including because she has savings and paid an initial filing fee.
Court: USDC Western District of Texas , Judge: Torres, Filed On: January 3, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv139, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, civil Rights, employment Discrimination
[Consolidated.] J. Thompson grants summary judgement to the city in this employment dispute brought by three African American police officers who were suspended, demoted and prohibited from accepting off-duty work alleging race discrimination. The city investigations found the officers violated off-duty employment when that worked as courtesy officers but did not live on the property. The officers failed to show that the white officers were disciplined any differently or that the discipline was a race-based adverse action.
Court: USDC Middle District of Alabama, Judge: Thompson, Filed On: December 27, 2023, Case #: 2:21cv641, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination