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J. Jackson dismisses, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, three hospitals’ lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services for how it calculated the funds due to the hospitals under Medicare’s disproportionate share hospital adjustment. The hospitals did not exhaust their administrative remedies before suing.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Jackson, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv2272, NOS: Medicare Act - Contract, Categories: Administrative Law, Jurisdiction, Medicare
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
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J. Cobb grants the Department of Justice's motion to dismiss the employee's action seeking enforcement of a decision by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Office of Federal Operation, which had been reversed by the Commission itself three months prior. The employee has failed to exhaust her administrative remedies, namely because she has failed to obtain an order of agency noncompliance and because the order has been reversed. Her claim for money damages is precluded by the availability of an action under Title VII of the Civil rights Act, and she has failed to state a claim against several named officials in their individual capacities.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Cobb, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv1154, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Administrative Law, Employment
J. Cooper partially grants the German state-owned entity's motion to dismiss the German-American's suit alleging that it improperly expropriated her family's former estate, which had been seized by the Soviet Union in the wake of World War II, following the reunification of East and West Germany. The 1945 taking was not a domestic taking, and therefore this court can exercise subject matter jurisdiction over it, but the later takings did not violate international law. Germany also did not waive its sovereign immunity in this matter in a 1954 treaty. The record is not clear as to whether the German entity ever had a physical presence in the U.S., in part because of its litigation tactics, and should remaining jurisdictional questions come down to that question, the court will allow the German-American to serve interrogatories on that question.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Cooper, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:14cv2140, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: International Law, Jurisdiction
J. Lamberth grants default judgment to the family of a man stabbed by a Hamas militant in the West Bank in their suit against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Syrian Arab Republic alleging that the two countries provided material support to Hamas. The family has sufficiently established that Hamas is responsible for their family member's murder, that the two countries have provided financial and material support to Hamas, and that this support falls under an exception to sovereign immunity for state sponsors of terrorism.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Lamberth, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv3492, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: International Law, Terrorism, Wrongful Death
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. Jackson grants the employer's motion to dismiss the employee's suit alleging that she was terminated for taking medical leave after her son was shot and that her supervisors defamed her. The employee, a pro se litigant, has failed to state any of her claims.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Jackson, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv2249, NOS: Family and Medical Leave Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Defamation, Employment Discrimination
J. Contreras denies the employee's motion for summary judgment in her suit alleging that she was demoted, reassigned and ultimately terminated in retaliation for her criticisms of her employer's response to the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, and partially grant's the employer's summary judgment motion. The employee argues that seven protected disclosures she made led to retaliation, but has only established a prima facie case of retaliation in relation to one of these seven. The employee's First Amendment retaliation claim survives summary judgment, since the employers' relevant, legitimate interests in protecting the release of inmates' and staff's health information are minimal relative to the employee's interest in "shedding light on the deplorable conditions in the D.C. Jail and the ongoing threat to inmate and staff safety." Finally, the employee's motion to file a substantial portion of her filings under seal is granted as to 16 exhibits, but denied as to others, including some which included information designated as confidential by the employer "out of an abundance of caution."
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Contreras, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv2944, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Employment, Whistleblowers, Employment Retaliation
J. Cooper denies, in part, the Bureau of Land Management's motion for summary judgment on several conservation groups' challenge to the sale of 120,000 acres in Wyoming for drilling. The agency erroneously assessed the sale's impact on groundwater and wildlife, and did not explain how its analysis of greenhouse gas emission affected its decision.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Cooper, Filed On: March 22, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv1871, NOS: Environmental Matters - Other Suits, Categories: Energy, Environment, Property
J. Howell denies, in part, the district's motion to dismiss a former black records manager's employment discrimination claims. She sufficiently alleges her claims for gender discrimination and retaliation, disability retaliation and failure to accommodate.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Howell, Filed On: March 21, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv1488, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation