495 results for 'cat:"Civil Rights" AND cat:"Employment"'.
J. Donnelly denies in part a Brooklyn law firm’s motion for summary judgment and preserves a single claim for race-based hostile work environment, finding enough evidence to allege one of its partners’ actions, which included espousing white supremacist views, playing Confederate songs in the workplace and watching racist videos on his computer, was pervasive. The main question for the jury is whether the partner was her supervisor or a coworker for purposes of employer liability.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Donnelly, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 1:19cv1979, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
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J. Goodwin partially grants the defendant police chief's motion for summary judgment in this employment discrimination lawsuit arising from a disciplinary proceeding within the police department and the employee's subsequent termination and reinstatement. The employee's conspiracy claim is dismissed against the police chief, but his racial discrimination claim under Section 1981 survives. The court concludes that there is a dispute as to "whether the stated reason for plaintiff's termination was pretextual."
Court: USDC Western District of Oklahoma , Judge: Goodwin, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 5:20cv1281, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
J. Bates allows a Department of Homeland Security employee’s race and sex discrimination and hostile work environments claim to proceed, but denies his other retaliation and disability discrimination claims. He was moved from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore after he had an “altercation” with his supervisor.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Bates, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv3548, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Government, employment Retaliation
J. Bennett grants the county’s motion to dismiss this employment dispute brought by a former employee on claims of retaliation and discrimination under the MFEPA and ADA. The employee was a lieutenant firefighter when she was charged with a DUI and after she attended treatment, she returned to work when she was charged with a second DUI. Her claims are unsupported, and the second DUI was legitimately the reason for her termination.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Bennett, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv2076, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Chutkan denies the employers' partial motion to dismiss the employee's sex-discrimination claims, premised on an alleged failure to pay her equally to her male colleagues for substantially equal work and equal or greater qualifications. The employee has plausibly pled that the lower pay was discriminatory, sufficiently to raise a claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act under a disparate-treatment theory. Her pleadings may be mended to support an additional theory of disparate-impact discrimination. The employee's Equal Pay Act claim, however, is dismissed sua sponte for lack of jurisdiction.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Chutkan, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv662, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, employment Discrimination
J. Hawley rules a corrections center mental health worker may pursue sexual harassment claims against a county. The mental health worker, who is a Black female, sufficiently showed in court that corrections center employees sexually harassed her by commenting on her protruding nipples, claiming that they were a problem.
Court: USDC Central District of Illinois, Judge: Hawley, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv1075, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment
J. Biggs grants a university health system’s motion for summary judgment following allegations of multiple civil rights violations brought by a radiation oncology resident. The resident, a Black woman, entered residency with the system despite misgivings on the part of some staff based on her previous academic performance, but it accepted her anyway. Throughout her residency, she required unprecedented support and consistently scored low in testing ranges, requiring an extension of her residency, which required more scrutiny by staff than other residents. However, she fails to produce sufficient evidence to her claims.
Court: USDC Middle District of North Carolina, Judge: Biggs, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv281, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Health Care, employment Discrimination
J. Donnelly tosses an employment discrimination complaint against Stony Brook University Medical Center on claims that it denied a nurse’s request for a religious exemption from its Covid-19 mandate and subsequently placed her on unpaid leave until she resigned. Her complaint fails to allege her employer’s actions were motivated by her religion. York’s health department removed religious exemptions from its vaccine mandate, and as such the healthcare provider would have been in violation of the mandate had they granted her request for an exemption for religious purposes.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Donnelly, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv135, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Covid-19, employment Discrimination
J. Norton denies Boeing's motion to dismiss an age discrimination suit. The employee, who is over the age of 40, says a supervisor lowered his evaluations after the employee reported his antagonistic behavior. The employee says the supervisor also altered his job title in order include him in a list of workforce reduction layoffs. Allegations the supervisor changed the employee's job title, that the only other people laid off were 53 and 55, and that the employee was replaced with younger employees are sufficient to make a plausible claim for age discrimination.
Court: USDC South Carolina Aiken, Judge: Norton , Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv2631, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Evidence, employment Discrimination
J. Peterson grants the U.S. Secretary of the Army's motion for summary judgment in the citizen's pro se lawsuit claiming he was unlawfully denied jobs he applied for with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The citizen has not provided sufficient evidence to show he was denied employment as retaliation for testifying as a witness at his father's EEO hearing in 2002, so his motion for summary judgment is denied, the Army secretary's motion is granted, and the clerk is ordered to close the case.
Court: USDC Western District of Wisconsin, Judge: Peterson, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv351, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Retaliation
J. Donnelly preserves a Trafficking Victims Protection Act complaint that alleges the Odyssey Study Group, described as a religious cult, coerced the litigant, a 23-year member who eventually left in 2013, into performing labor and other services. The court finds the complaint is timely and adequately alleges the organization engaged in a conspiracy by threatening him with serious harm, including disclosing personal information, if he did not perform the work or attend its classes.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Donnelly, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv7686, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: civil Rights, employment, Tort
J. Pepper grants the school district's motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit from an employee claiming she faced age and gender discrimination when she was transferred from her job as principal at a high school to principal at an elementary school and replaced at the high school with a younger male employee. The employee's claims under Title VII and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act both fail, as the record does not support the notion that she was reassigned, albeit at a lower salary and to a position she felt was a demotion, due to her age or gender.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge: Pepper, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 2:19cv1863, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
J. Osteen grants Quest Diagnostics’ motion to dismiss allegations of civil rights violations and race discrimination brought by a physician account executive. The executive, a Black woman, claims that her white, male supervisor treated her with derision and comparatively praised and better treated her white, female coworker. She further alleges the supervisor systematically discriminated against her, eventually firing her for a frivolous reason. However, the executive’s claims fail to meet requirements for federal civil rights and race discrimination protections.
Court: USDC Middle District of North Carolina, Judge: Osteen, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv736, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment, employment Discrimination
J. Cain grants the Army's motion to dismiss this employment discrimination case. The black, female, mentally-challenged administrative assistant says her position description was changed in order to harass and discriminate against her. She says additional duties were not consistent with those assigned to others in her position and her work performance was continually scrutinized. The employee fails to offer allegations or evidence that other employees are valid comparators. The absence of minorities in upper-level positions does not prove discrimination without the comparison.
Court: USDC South Carolina Aiken, Judge: Cain , Filed On: March 26, 2024, Case #: 3:21cv3708, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
J. Boyle grants a renal healthcare system’s motion to dismiss allegations of race discrimination and retaliation brought by a healthcare worker. The worker claims other staff harassed her, including making racist remarks, and that her supervisor followed her around the facility and even outside after her shifts ended, making unnecessary criticisms. This increased after she filed an EEOC complaint and she was then fired. However, the worker’s claim is time-barred.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Boyle, Filed On: March 26, 2024, Case #: 5:23cv84, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Campbell mostly denies the employers' dismissal motions in this lawsuit brought by a former employee who alleges that she was fired after complaining about a client's sexual harassment. The dismissal motions are granted as to her claim for "participation in a venture engaged in sex trafficking." The allegations do not show that the employers had notice of "a commercial sex act," as required under the federal statute. Their motions are denied as to the remaining counts.
Court: USDC Middle District of Tennessee , Judge: Campbell, Filed On: March 26, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv477, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: civil Rights, employment
J. Kleeh grants in part the university's and several professors' motions to dismiss a fellow Department of Public Administration professor's religious and national origin discrimination suit. In addition to 42 U.S.C.§ 1981 not affording protection against discrimination based on national origin or religion, the court grants the professors' motion in both their individual and official capacities in counts five and six of the complaint. On the similar claims in counts one and two under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the court grants the university's motion to strike references to the professor's 2017 denial of tenure and allegations predating Nov. 20, 2020, but denies it to strike his allegation the Department Faculty Evaluation Committee denied his promotion to full professor in 2023.
Court: USDC Northern District of West Virginia, Judge: Kleeh, Filed On: March 26, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv153, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Education, employment Discrimination
J. Antongiorgi-Jordán grants the hospital's motion to dismiss this wrongful termination and retaliation suit. The disabled dietician who was promoted to the position of director of nutritional services claims she was terminated due to her having filed a complaint against a coworker for creating a hostile work environment. The dietician did not file her retaliation claim within 180 days, as required. Although her discrimination claim was filed within limitations, it does not extend the deadline for the retaliation claim.
Court: USDC Puerto Rico, Judge: Antongiorgi-Jordán, Filed On: March 25, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv1322, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation