19 results for 'cat:"Employment Discrimination" AND cat:"Contract"'.
J. Fish accepts the recommendations of a magistrate judge. A former employee claims the company he used to work for terminated him after he informed it he’d sustained a severe leg injury that could prevent him from doing his job. The employee is suing the company, as well as the company’s president and CEO as well an individual the employee says acted as a “liaison” between him and the company, for interference with contract and for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act. The employee’s ADA and TCHRA claims against the president/CEO and the liaison should be dismissed, as supervising personnel do not qualify as “employers” under those laws; also the employee failed to exhaust his administrative remedies. His ADA and TCHRA claims against the company should also be dismissed, as he did not provide enough information to show that his leg injury qualifies as a disability. The interference with contract claim against the company should be dismissed, as the company cannot interfere with a contract it itself is a party to. The interference with contract claim against the president/CEO should also be dismissed, as the only way he could have interfered with the contract is if he were intentionally acting against the company's interests, which the employee has not alleged. Finally, the interference with contract claim against the liaison should be dismissed because, though the employee claims he told the liaison about his injury and that the liaison then told the company, he does not allege the liaison knew for a fact that doing so would cause the employee to be terminated or that the liaison persuaded the company to engage in the alleged breach of contract.
Court: USDC Northern District of Texas , Judge: Fish, Filed On: August 21, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv1371, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Ada / Rehabilitation Act, Interference With contract, employment Discrimination
J. Boyle finds that a state fair did not discriminate against a vendor who is originally from Greece when they did not renew his concessionaire contract at the fair. The vendor has not sufficiently shown that other vendors who are not of Greek ancestry were treated differently and he has not shown that if it was not for his race the issue would have been decided differently. The fair’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim is granted without prejudice.
Court: USDC Northern District of Texas , Judge: Boyle , Filed On: May 30, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv1682, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: employment Discrimination, contract
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J. Underhill finds a lower court properly dismissed a group of public toilets cleaning employees' indirect racial discrimination claims against their employer. The group of 16 civil service contract workers, who are predominately Black and part of the "indirectly- employed workforce," argued that the park charity organization failed to pay them a living wage. However, the proper venue to hear the employees' claims is the Employment Tribunal. Vacated.
Court: Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, Judge: Underhill, Filed On: May 24, 2024, Case #: CA-2023-978, Categories: Employment, employment Discrimination, contract
J. Sannes enters judgment in favor of the New York City Police Department on a white female police officer’s tortious interference claim, but otherwise preserves for trial the remaining claims in her employment discrimination and retaliation complaint. The court finds her complaint raises material issues of fact on whether the department denied her promotion to sergeant on several occasions, as well as denied her requests for employment benefits, because she is a white woman and was diagnosed with PTSD and suffers from panic attacks, which she developed as a result of traumatic situations she experienced while in the line of duty.
Court: USDC Northern District of New York, Judge: Sannes, Filed On: May 24, 2024, Case #: 5:21cv845, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Ada / Rehabilitation Act, Interference With contract, employment Discrimination
J. Hanks finds that neither claimant in a transportation dispute involving produce loads delivered crushed or at the incorrect temperature has met requirements to recover damages. The transporter of the produce claimed that defendant had discriminated against him based on his race and interfered with another contract after the damaged produce incident, but the discrimination claims are insufficient, and the transporter has not provided verification of the contract. The supplier claims damages from lost produce loads but fails to prove that the damaged produce was the result of the transporter’s negligence.
Court: USDC Southern District of Texas, Judge: Hanks, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 4:20cv4236, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, Interference With contract, employment Discrimination
J. Bunning rules in part for an employer in discrimination claims because evidence indicates the employee was fired for insubordination, not due to his race. However, the employee may continue claims contending the contract was violated when his job duties were altered prior to termination.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Kentucky, Judge: Bunning, Filed On: March 6, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv26, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, employment Discrimination, contract
J. Rowland denies a Chicago YWCA’s motion to dismiss contract breach and race discrimination claims brought by the founder of “World of Money," a financial tutoring program for children of color. The YWCA incorporated World of Money as one of its own programs in 2020, hiring the founder as its executive director. However, despite claiming World of Money as its own, the YWCA did not financially support the program or hold up the founder’s attempts to broaden it, then abandoned it entirely in 2023. The founder has adequately alleged her race discrimination and contract breach claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Rowland, Filed On: February 26, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv2821, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: employment Discrimination, contract
J. Williams grants, in part, Yale University's motion for summary judgment, ruling the former chief of cardiovascular medicine cannot make a plausible contract claim related to his removal from that position after sexual assault allegations. His employment agreement with the university guaranteed only his job as a professor. However, because the removal of several honorific titles and endowments after the allegations could be considered an adverse employment action under precedent from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the sex discrimination claim will proceed.
Court: USDC Connecticut, Judge: Williams, Filed On: January 17, 2024, Case #: 3:19cv1547, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Education, employment Discrimination, contract
J. Barker grants, in part, the employers' motion to dismiss, ruling the former CFO's failure to execute a release agreement at the end of his employment or present evidence he completed all requirements of his employment contract requires dismissal of the contract claim related to severance and vacation pay. Meanwhile, the CFO's decision to lump all the employers together in the aiding and abetting discrimination claim requires dismissal of that claim because if all the employers took part in the discriminatory conduct, it is not possible for them to aid and abet themselves in the same discriminatory conduct.
Court: USDC Northern District of Ohio, Judge: Barker, Filed On: January 12, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv986, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment Discrimination, contract
J. Mahan grants the brothel’s motion for summary judgment in this putative class action arising from alleged failure to pay overtime, wait time penalties, unpaid breaks, hostile work environment, discrimination, constructive discharge and interference with contracts. The brothel has provided evidence that the employees’ profit depended on their managerial skills, including while working for other brothels. They negotiated their own prices, could promote online and book more clients, work more hours and earn more profit by their own efforts.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Mahan, Filed On: October 16, 2023, Case #: 2:19cv1690, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, employment Discrimination, contract
J. Hicks grants the mining company’s motion for summary judgment in this employment discrimination suit. The former employee was fired for failing to follow safety protocols and bypassing equipment safety features, which resulted in the partial amputation of his finger. He was not hired thereafter by a subcontractor which contracted with the mining company after giving his resume to someone associated with the subcontractor. This person never submitted the resume. The former employee failed to demonstrate the existence of a prospective contractual relationship between himself and the subcontractor. There are no genuine issues of material fact.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Hicks, Filed On: September 29, 2023, Case #: 3:20cv34, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment Discrimination, contract