20 results for 'cat:"Education" AND cat:"Employment Discrimination" AND cat:"Employment Retaliation"'.
J. Novak denies the university's motion to dismiss claims of gender discrimination. An accomplished Black female news director turned communications professor properly presented facts that her Black male supervisor gave her unfavorable assignments, tried to take her role as internship director away, suggested she needed to teach more courses than anyone else in the department and directed her to teach specific courses without her input, while her male and White female counterparts exercised flexibility in choosing courses to instruct.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Virginia, Judge: Novak, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv777, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Drell orders a school's executive director to turn over complete and unredacted records of any phone calls and text messages he exchanged with three subordinate employees, during two days of depositions for an English instructor’s Title VII sexual harassment and retaliation suit. The school destroyed evidence to conceal it from the litigant-teacher and, therefore, the teacher is granted an “adverse inference” as a sanction. A jury may infer that deleted texts would have shown the executive director instructed the three workers how they were to testify in their depositions and that the testimony in their own depositions reflects the instructions of their boss.
Court: USDC Western District of Louisiana , Judge: Drell, Filed On: April 17, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv4419, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Hanen finds that the claims of professor who was denied a promotion after speaking out against discriminatory behavior toward women university employees can proceed to a jury trial based only on professor’s retaliation and discrimination claims. The professor cited emails in which she repeatedly pointed out gender-based discrimination to her supervisors, along with formal complaints she submitted to the university, which provide sufficient context for retaliation.
Court: USDC Southern District of Texas, Judge: Hanen, Filed On: April 11, 2024, Case #: 4:15cv2824, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Ellison finds for a school district on a former teacher's employment discrimination action. She fails to make out a prima facie case of discrimination, nor has she shown the district's legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for non-renewal was pretextual.
Court: USDC Southern District of Texas, Judge: Ellison, Filed On: March 22, 2024, Case #: 4:23cv145, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. D’Agostino dismisses with prejudice an employment discrimination and retaliation complaint brought against Hamilton College by a university professor, who says he was targeted for being a Black immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many of his allegations involve actions that occurred prior to 2018, including the university’s decision not to appoint him to chair of the French and Franco Studies Department in 2012, which the court finds are untimely.
Court: USDC Northern District of New York, Judge: D’Agostino, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 6:22cv1395, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
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J. Bush finds the lower court properly dismissed the black professor's discrimination and retaliation claims against the university. The actions taken by university officials - denial of grant opportunities and reassignments - were not based on the professor's race and were not pervasive enough to support a hostile work environment claim. Affirmed.
Court: 6th Circuit, Judge: Bush, Filed On: January 30, 2024, Case #: 23-5557, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Higginson finds the district court properly found for a university on a black administrative coordinator's sexual harassment and retaliation suit. The record demonstrates the university took prompt remedial action after an investigation supported her claim that a veterinarian had slapped her on the buttocks. Furthermore, she fails to show the university's reasons for relocating her were pretextual. Affirmed.
Court: 5th Circuit, Judge: Higginson , Filed On: January 8, 2024, Case #: 22-30699, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Osteen partially denies the University of North Carolina’s motion to dismiss allegations including race discrimination, wrongful discharge and tortious inference brought by a Ph.D. student. The only Black person in the organizational behavioral Ph.D. program at the time, the student confided in close faculty that she had been raped and that this had triggered symptoms of her PTSD diagnosis. When she attended a hearing involving her attacker instead of a non-mandatory program seminar, the faculty claimed she was being irresponsible and disrespectful. From there, the student alleges, her treatment by the faculty — all of whom are white or of Indian descent — became increasingly severe to the point where they allegedly complained to professors at other universities and sabotaged her attempts to transfer schools. While the student does not sufficiently evidence her claims against the individual staff members involved and has since withdrawn those claims, she does have standing against the university itself on eight of 10 claims including disparate treatment, retaliation and failure to accommodate.
Court: USDC Middle District of North Carolina, Judge: Osteen, Filed On: October 20, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv717, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Rubin partially denies the University of Maryland’s motion to dismiss allegations of hostile work environment, retaliation, and race, gender and age discrimination brought by a diagnostic radiation employee. The employee, a white woman over 40, described her supervisor as an “Indian/Asian” man who gave preferential treatment to women who were younger and of seemingly the same racial background as him. She claims that he stared and panted at her and bragged about the size of his prostate. The employee received two negative performance reviews after she made complaints internally and with the EEOC. The university is correct that the employees ADEA claim is barred by state sovereign immunity and her state-related claims are time-barred. However, her federal discrimination and retaliation allegations are not time-barred and will proceed.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Rubin, Filed On: September 27, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv514, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Bryant grants the board of education's motion for summary judgment, ruling the black employee cannot make a prima facie case for race discrimination. Although a white male was hired for the CFO position, it is undisputed he scored the highest on the exam used to test all of the candidates, which gave the board a legitimate reason to select him for the job. Meanwhile, the employee's abuse of the school's health insurance program to allow her ex-husband to remain on the plan for years after he was ineligible gave the board a legitimate reason to fire her.
Court: USDC Connecticut, Judge: Bryant, Filed On: September 22, 2023, Case #: 3:20cv1463, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Myers partially denies a university's motion to dismiss gender discrimination and retaliation allegations brought by a women's volleyball head coach after the university fired her and replaced her with a man. Although the coach had a stellar track record regarding team wins, she complained multiple times of Title IX violations by the university, which she claims consisted of higher amounts of funding and facility renovations for men's teams. At the same time, student athletes accused the coach of creating a toxic culture through intimidation and manipulation. The university fired her on the grounds of toxicity, but she states a reasonable claim of discrimination and retaliation since the university replaced her with a male coach with very little experience shortly after she complained.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Myers, Filed On: September 21, 2023, Case #: 4:22cv30, NOS: Education - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Brodie denies, in part, the NYC Department of Education's motion for summary judgment on a Black worker's claims for employment-related race discrimination and retaliation. Material disputes remain as to whether the department's arguments for denying him overtime were pretextual, or whether its allegedly retaliatory actions, which included issuing him several write-ups and recommending his termination, were the "but for" cause of its actions.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Brodie, Filed On: September 15, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv480, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Carr grants the university's motion for summary judgment, ruling the employee failed to provide evidence she exhausted her administrative remedies with the EEOC, which requires dismissal of her Title VII sex discrimination claim. Meanwhile, the employee's retaliation claim fails because there is no causal connection between her filing a discrimination and her termination, which came only after she disobeyed a direct order from a supervisor and continued to email faculty and students without prior approval.
Court: USDC Northern District of Ohio, Judge: Carr, Filed On: September 14, 2023, Case #: 3:20cv2665, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Chuang finds in favor of the county board of education following allegations of race discrimination brought by a former high school math and technology teacher. The board did not choose the teacher, a Black man, after he applied to three different athletic positions in the county. Those chosen were white. The teacher then emailed the public school system, quoting Deuteronomy 25:1-3 and saying, "Do not muzzle the ox that treadeth on the corn." Following this, the school system placed him on paid administrative leave twice and required a psychotherapist's exam to return to work. The follow fall, the teacher did not return and was determined to have abandoned his position. The teacher lacks the sufficient evidence needed to proceed on his claims.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Chuang, Filed On: September 12, 2023, Case #: 8:20cv3471, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Snow grants the defendant school district's motion for summary judgment in this lawsuit brought by a former employee alleging discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII, as well as interference with her rights under the Family Medical Leave Act. The former employee, who is African American, fails to establish a prima facie case of race discrimination or retaliation.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Oklahoma, Judge: Snow, Filed On: August 28, 2023, Case #: 6:21cv241, NOS: Education - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
Per curiam, the Fifth Circuit finds the district court properly found in favor of Louisiana State University in this employment sex discrimination suit brought by the female staff attorneys who were terminated as part of a university-wide consolidation. The attorneys failed to identify male employees who were paid more for similar work. The attorneys were also notified of their termination before they filed charges, and there is no causal link between their alleged protected activity and the adverse employment action. Though, testimony on record regarding an email raising gender pay-equity concerns “seem[s] to corroborate... ’ [that a retaliation claim] was objectively reasonable.” This satisfies the attorneys’ burden to show that their salary-review request was a protected activity. Affirmed in part. Reversed in part and remanded.
Court: 5th Circuit, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: August 24, 2023, Case #: 22-30585, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Sannes enters judgment in favor of the New York State Department of Education on a 71-year-old special education teacher’s employment discrimination and retaliation complaint that alleged she suffered disciplinary action on the basis that she suffered from extreme anxiety and other mental health conditions, which ultimately led to her forced resignation. The education department successfully argued that its decision to initiate disciplinary actions against her were due to complaints that she reportedly said she was going to “kill” or otherwise harm her supervisor and
not driven by discriminatory animus.
Court: USDC Northern District of New York, Judge: Sannes, Filed On: August 21, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv195, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation