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Per curiam, the Fifth Circuit finds the lower court properly granted summary judgment to the employer in this suit alleging racial discrimination and failure to promote. The Black female employee has worked for the department for 35 years, receiving multiple promotions and currently works in an appointed, unadvertised noncompetitive position. A white man with similar experience was appointed to another noncompetitive position, which was not advertised and for which the employee had no knowledge. She has not produced substantial evidence that the department’s proffered nondiscriminatory reason for promoting the man is pretextual. The company had no duty to consider her for the position. Affirmed.
Court: 5th Circuit, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: June 8, 2023, Case #: 22-60408, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
J. Fleming grants the employer's motion for summary judgment, ruling the pregnant employee's deposition testimony about the reasons for her termination are entirely self-serving and unsupported by the record. Additionally, the male employees she uses as comparators were neither on their probationary periods when they were disciplined nor were they treated differently for similar use of medical leave.
Court: USDC Northern District of Ohio, Judge: Fleming, Filed On: June 5, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv1683, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Evidence, employment Discrimination
J. Russell grants the Baltimore Department of Transportation its motion to dismiss allegations of race, disability and gender discrimination brought by a former engineer who is a queer Black man. Before his probationary period ended, the department fired the engineer after a series of interactions with coworkers and supervisors that were unprofessional on both sides, but he presents no compelling evidence to state a claim.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Russell, Filed On: June 5, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1882, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Lgbtq, employment Discrimination
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J. Gesner partially denies a waste disposal and recycling firm its motion to dismiss a former salesperson’s amended complaint alleging gender and wage discrimination. Even though the salesperson, a woman, met and surpassed her sales goal of $14 million in one year, she did not receive the promised commission while her male colleagues did, whether they met their quotas or not. She has presented sufficient evidence to proceed.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Gesner, Filed On: June 1, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1533, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Branch finds that the district court properly ruled in favor of the former employer in a race discrimination action brought by the former state trooper, a Black man, after he was put on administrative leave and not promoted while he was investigated for allegedly coming to work intoxicated and posting a video of himself on Facebook marketing an at-home breathalyzer device. The former trooper failed to show that he was discriminated against on the basis of his race. He was not qualified for the corporal position since he did not complete a written exam required for promotion. Affirmed.
Court: 11th Circuit, Judge: Branch, Filed On: May 31, 2023, Case #: 21-13561, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
J. Stadtmueller grants summary judgment to the plumbing products manufacturer in a lawsuit from an employee claiming she was disciplined more harshly than her white coworkers and fired because she is Black. The record contains multiple instances of the employee failing to meet the manufacturer's attendance and performance standards, and based on the evidence, the legitimate issues the employer cited when firing her had nothing to do with her race.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge: Stadtmueller, Filed On: May 31, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv65, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Treadwell denies the employee's motion for reconsideration of an earlier order partially granting the employer's motions to dismiss a civil rights and race discrimination action arising from the employer's alleged failure to reclassify the employee, an appraiser, to a higher position. The employee failed to follow the court's instructions in amending her complaint, therefore her allegations with regard to liability for pay discrimination based on events that happened years before she filed her charge of discrimination with the EEOC were properly struck from the second amended complaint.
Court: USDC Middle District of Georgia, Judge: Treadwell, Filed On: May 30, 2023, Case #: 5:21cv239, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, civil Rights, employment Discrimination
J. Anderson denies the defendant college's motion to dismiss this Title VII discrimination lawsuit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. In its reply, the college challenges the complaint as to "the exhaustion of Plaintiff's discrimination claims before the EEOC." However, this is not a jurisdictional argument. Also, the court will allow the individual plaintiff an extension of time for service.
Court: USDC Western District of Tennessee , Judge: Anderson, Filed On: May 26, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv2537, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. McShane dismisses the former manufacturing technician's claims that the manufacturing company wrongfully fired her because it did not want to provide accommodations for her cataract and dry eye condition. Most of the former technician's claims prior to Apr. 25, 2018, are time-barred. As for the remaining disparate treatment claims, she does not present evidence that the manufacturing company reduced her pay and benefits or that it significantly changed her duties, and it had a reasonable cause to dismiss her due to her disrespect toward co-workers.
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: McShane, Filed On: May 25, 2023, Case #: 6:20cv1201, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Milazzo denies a request by a pest control company to dismiss a religious discrimination suit by an employee fired for refusing to get a mandated Covid-19 vaccination. The former employee alleges he was terminated in August 2021 because he told his employer that his Catholic faith prevented him from being injected with the vaccine derived from aborted fetal cell lines. In response, a manager allegedly stated, “The Pope wants you to take it.” Terminix denies the allegation. The company unsuccessfully argued the ex-employee makes no factual connection between his “sincerely held belief and his termination.” The terminated exterminator has established a claim for religious discrimination.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Milazzo, Filed On: May 19, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv3701, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Silva grants the county’s motion for summary judgment in this suit brought by its former employee alleging wrongful termination and disability and race discrimination, and that she was fired for filing a workers’ compensation claim. It is undisputed that the employee failed to present any claim within two years of her termination, and that claim is time-barred. The employee was a temp worker, and the only evidence in the record indicating a hostile work environment is her own subjective, unsupported belief that her coworkers’ rudeness was based on her race.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Silva, Filed On: May 18, 2023, Case #: 2:20cv1811, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Kennelly denies Chicago’s motion for summary judgment on civil rights claims brought by a gay city firefighter. The firefighter alleges he has been subject to homophobic intimidation by his straight coworkers in the fire department, including having gay porn taped to his locker, and that he was regularly sexually harassed by his female superior when he was working in the CFD’s administrative office. The court finds he has sufficiently alleged these claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: May 18, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv2562, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Emotional Distress, employment Discrimination
J. Bolden grants the employer's motion for summary judgment, ruling that while the security manager's supervisor asked him several times before his termination if he planned to retire, the manager's alcohol consumption at a company event gave the employer a legitimate reason to fire him. There is no evidence of pretext, as several of the comments were made years before the manager's termination, and he was replaced with someone in his protected age group.
Court: USDC Connecticut, Judge: Bolden, Filed On: May 12, 2023, Case #: 3:21cv1486, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Evidence, employment Discrimination
J. Gallagher denies the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore their motion to dismiss allegations of sex and disability discrimination brought by a former staff member of the city’s IT office. The staff member, a woman, alleges multiple incidents of harassment, purposeful assignments of extra work, and failure to accommodate her disability by giving her 20-minute breaks every two to three hours. While she does not plausibly allege a hostile work environment, her other claims survive.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Gallagher, Filed On: May 11, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1243, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Ada / Rehabilitation Act, employment Discrimination