115 results for 'cat:"Civil Rights" AND cat:"Employment Retaliation"'.
J. Boyle grants an industrial equipment rental company’s motion for summary judgment following allegations of wrongful termination brought by a former delivery truck driver. The driver claims he reported multiple safety violations by the company which led it to unfairly fire him. However, the driver contacted only staff within the company about the violations and no outside entity such as the Department of Labor and shows no evidence that his complaints resulted in an investigation. Therefore, his activity is not protected under the state’s retaliation laws. He also fails to provide sufficient evidence to create a genuine dispute of the company’s arguments.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Boyle, Filed On: November 27, 2023, Case #: 7:21cv89, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Retaliation
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J. Shah partially grants the Chicago Transit Authority’s motion to dismiss a civil rights suit, brought by a former CTA worker who opposed the agency’s mandatory Covid-19 employee vaccination policy. The employee sought a religious exemption to the vaccine based on his beliefs, among others, that vaccines were “unclean” and contained pork products that his biblically mandated diet prevented him from ingesting. The CTA denied his exemption request and fired him after he refused to get the vaccine regardless. The worker subsequently brought a nine-count civil rights suit against the CTA, the majority of which the court now dismisses. The only counts to survive are an allegation that the CTA’s exemption denial violated the state and federal Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, and a Title VII claim under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Shah, Filed On: November 6, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv6086, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Lee grants summary judgment to the city defendants in this employment discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by a former police officer. The officer cannot show that she was "constructively discharged," as she asserts. Accordingly, she fails to establish a prima facie case of discrimination or retaliation.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Tennessee , Judge: Lee, Filed On: October 17, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv293, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Daniel partial grants a candy company’s motion to dismiss a former gay, Black office employee’s hostile work environment and failure to hire claims. The former employee claims he was forced to use his personal phone for work without reimbursement, while non-Black employees were reimbursed, was passed over for promotion, and was also targeted for harassment by his coworkers on the basis of his race and sexual orientation. The court finds the former employee has not sufficiently pleaded his failure to hire claim, but allows the hostile work environment claim to mover forward.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Daniel, Filed On: October 5, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv4875, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Beaton finds for the cabinet for health and family services in employment discrimination claims because evidence indicates that a child abuse investigation into the employee may have caused her to lose her job. However, the employee failed to demonstrate a due process violation occurred, and since this is the only federal claim, the court declines to hear remaining state law claims.
Court: USDC Western District of Kentucky, Judge: Beaton, Filed On: September 30, 2023, Case #: 5:22cv85, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Retaliation
J. Ruiz denies, in part, the city officials' motion for judgment on the pleadings, ruling no provision in the police officer's CBA covers his Family and Medical Leave Act retaliation claim and, therefore, this court has jurisdiction over the claim, which is not time-barred and was not mooted by a state court settlement.
Court: USDC Northern District of Ohio, Judge: Ruiz, Filed On: September 29, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv2568, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Equal Protection, employment Retaliation
J. Maldonado partially grants a freight company’s motion for summary judgment on one of its former employees’ sexual harassment, hostile work environment and retaliatory termination claims. The former employee, a man, claims one of his male coworkers repeatedly made unwanted advances on him until eventually he snapped and asked if his coworker was a “f*****.” The court finds the former employee has plausibly alleged sexual harassment and hostile work environment, but finds the company was justified in firing him for using a homophobic slur while on the clock.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Maldonado, Filed On: September 28, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv3733, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Ashe dismisses an employment discrimination suit against a now-retired New Orleans Criminal District Judge by a former secretary she fired for recording her conversation, allegedly at the direction of a human resources staffer for the court. The former subordinate reiterates sexual harassment and gender discrimination claims without referencing a constitutional violation as required by Title VII. The secretary alleged the judge gave her a suggestive gift at a Christmas party at the elected official’s home and asked her to spend the night with her and her husband.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Ashe, Filed On: September 22, 2023, Case #: 2:23cv428, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Joseph finds in favor of the City of Alexandria, dismissing all claims brought by three Black police officers alleging racially discriminatory acts by their white police chief. It is undisputed that one of the officers repeatedly misused a criminal database to conduct searches unrelated to his police duties; a second cop failed a polygraph exam and conducted an unauthorized investigation of a fellow officer; and the third cop lied during an Internal Affairs investigation. These facts justify the adverse employment actions taken against the three cops.
Court: USDC Western District of Louisiana , Judge: Joseph, Filed On: September 13, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv1581, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Retaliation
J. Torbitzky finds that the commission improperly affirmed the police department's decision to fire the police officer. The department improperly forced the officer to choose between his employment and his Fifth Amendment rights by retaliating against him for refusing to answer questions about another officer's alleged sexual encounter with a 12-year-old girl in a patrol car. The officer was given immunity for statements made to the department's internal investigator, but understood that there was no such immunity for statements made to the criminal investigator. Reversed.
Court: Missouri Court Of Appeals, Judge: Torbitzky, Filed On: September 5, 2023, Case #: ED111086, Categories: civil Rights, Constitution, employment Retaliation
J. Moody grants a hospital’s motion for summary judgment in this matter of alleged sex discrimination and sexual harassment. A nurse who was the subject of multiple incidents of disciplinary action and was assigned to reorientation to improve his job performance, claimed the hospital terminated his employment because he had complained of discrimination and sexual harassment. Evidence is insufficient to support his claims, and it does show the cause for termination to be his unsatisfactory job performance.
Court: USDC Northern District of Indiana, Judge: Moody, Filed On: September 1, 2023, Case #: 4:21cv37, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Royal grants the city's motion to partially dismiss a civil rights and employment discrimination action brought by the employee. The employee, a Black woman, claimed she was discriminated against based on her race and unfairly fired. The employee's claims against the directors and Title VII disparate impact, hostile work environment and civil rights claims against the city are dismissed. The civil rights claims are barred by the two-year statute of limitations. The employee failed to allege pervasive harassment existed which altered the conditions of her employment and failed to identify any city policy which had a significant adverse effect on a protected group. The employee's claims for Title VII disparate treatment race discrimination and retaliation may move forward.
Court: USDC Middle District of Georgia, Judge: Royal, Filed On: September 1, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv82, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Doughty denies a request by a private security firm to dismiss age-based discrimination complaints by a fired guard who alleges the company failed to act despite knowing his supervisor harassed him, in part, by informing new hire employees that “they are not to listen to anything I have to say because I am old.” Adopting the findings of a magistrate judge’s report, the record indicates the litigant has plausibly alleged sufficient facts for an age discrimination claim.
Court: USDC Western District of Louisiana , Judge: Doughty, Filed On: August 23, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv6165, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Pallmeyer partially grants Naperville’s motion to dismiss a number of civil rights claims brought by one of its former police officers. The former cop says he was defamed and eventually fired in retaliation for questioning the legality of a Naperville police policy which required officers to make at least two traffic stops a day. Naperville says that because the former officer was still in his probationary period when he was fired, he was not due any notice or hearing beforehand. The court decides to dismiss the former cop’s supervisory liability and administrative review claims, but allows his defamation and due process claims to survive.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Pallmeyer, Filed On: August 22, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv6635, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Defamation, employment Retaliation