290 results for 'cat:"Civil Rights" AND cat:"Employment Discrimination"'.
J. Grasz finds a lower court properly dismissed a department of corrections hobby craft specialist's race and sex discrimination claims. The former employee argued that the department of corrections terminated her role because she is Black and female. However, the department of corrections sufficiently showed in court that she was let go for unsatisfactory performance, theft of property, and mishandling funds for personal use. Affirmed.
Court: 8th Circuit, Judge: Smith, Filed On: January 26, 2024, Case #: 23-1413, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Boyle grants a hospital’s motion to dismiss allegations of religious discrimination brought by an employee who claims the hospital did not provide her a religious exemption in regards to a Covid-19 vaccine mandate. However, the employee failed to name any discriminatory behavior to which the hospital subjected her, nor did she explain what religious beliefs on her part are in conflict with the mandate.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Boyle, Filed On: January 23, 2024, Case #: 5:22cv507, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Hamilton finds that the lower court properly found for the city, ruling that the Madison fire department's physical test for firefighters had a disparate impact on women, but did not violate Title VII because it served the city's legitimate purpose in ensuring that firefighters have the physical abilities to perform in their demanding job. Furthermore, Madison has a higher-than-average rate of hiring and retaining female firefighters, showing that its test performs well at selecting qualified candidates. Affirmed.
Court: 7th Circuit, Judge: Hamilton, Filed On: January 22, 2024, Case #: 22-2433, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
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J. Ellis partially grants Chicago’s motion for summary judgment on sex discrimination claims brought by women who wanted to be city paramedics. The cadets were injured while performing trials in the Chicago Fire Department’s physical aptitude test, trials that even internal experts claimed really weren’t of much use in evaluating firefighters’ and paramedics’ job readiness. Multiple lawsuits followed. The city settled some of those suits and moved for summary judgment in this one. The court now denies Chicago summary judgment on the paramedics’ internal discrimination claim, and splits judgment on the paramedics’ Monell claim. It grants the claim “to the extent plaintiffs rely on a widespread policy or practice,” but denies it “as to plaintiffs’ claim that they suffered a constitutional injury at the hands of a final policymaker.”
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Ellis, Filed On: January 22, 2024, Case #: 1:16cv10156, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Municipal Law, employment Discrimination
J. Borden grants summary judgment in favor of Mercedes-Benz in this employment dispute brought by a former employee who is a Black female alleging discrimination and retaliation due to her age, race and gender. The former employee did not address the age discrimination in Mercedes-Benz summary judgment motion, the court deems this to be abandoned. The opposition brief shows the stated reason for termination with no circumstantial evidence of race and gender discrimination or retaliation.
Court: USDC Northern District of Alabama , Judge: Borden, Filed On: January 22, 2024, Case #: 7:21cv1618, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Boyle grants a city government’s motion for summary judgment after a Black former police lieutenant alleged that two of his white deputies racially discriminated against him when they called for a state and federal investigation into whether he was working a second job while on the clock for the city. As it was discovered, a third deputy initiated the investigation, which ultimately found that the lieutenant and the police chief, also a Black man working the same second job, had inconsistencies between recorded hours at both jobs, leading to their arrests. Thus, the lieutenant’s claims fail.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Boyle, Filed On: January 18, 2024, Case #: 7:21cv130, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Urbanski denies the jail's motion to dismiss a sex discrimination claim. The correctional officer sufficiently pled that despite her receiving a reprimand for her part, her male counterparts were not disciplined for a verbal confrontation, that she made lower pay than seven of her male coworkers and was fired for fewer reasons than males.
Court: USDC Western District of Virginia, Judge: Urbanski, Filed On: January 8, 2024, Case #: 5:22cv57, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Torres denies a former Customs and Border Patrol employee’s motion for appointment of counsel after she sued the agency on her own behalf for discrimination. Not only is the employee unlikely to succeed in her case, but she has demonstrated “sufficient financial resources to continue her search for counsel,” including because she has savings and paid an initial filing fee.
Court: USDC Western District of Texas , Judge: Torres, Filed On: January 3, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv139, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, civil Rights, employment Discrimination
[Consolidated.] J. Thompson grants summary judgement to the city in this employment dispute brought by three African American police officers who were suspended, demoted and prohibited from accepting off-duty work alleging race discrimination. The city investigations found the officers violated off-duty employment when that worked as courtesy officers but did not live on the property. The officers failed to show that the white officers were disciplined any differently or that the discipline was a race-based adverse action.
Court: USDC Middle District of Alabama, Judge: Thompson, Filed On: December 27, 2023, Case #: 2:21cv641, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
J. Chen denies for the most part the MTA’s motion for summary judgment and allows an employment discrimination complaint to proceed to trial. The complaint alleges the city transportation agency passed over two experienced attorneys, one a 56-year-old Asian woman and the other a 58-year-old Black woman, for a promotion to the agency’s Bronx Tort Division on the basis of their age, sex and race and instead gave the position to a younger, much less qualified white man. The litigants successfully rebut the agency’s arguments justifying the white candidate’s promotion by alleging they were far more qualified for the position — one of the women has more than 20 years of law experience — and that he did not have the requisite managerial experience. The court leaves it up to a jury to determine whether the agency’s proffered reasons for promoting the white candidate were credible or were instead pretextual.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Block, Filed On: December 26, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv2827, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Zilly dismisses the supervisor's Americans with Disabilities Act claim accusing the hospital of not intervening when his superior discriminated against him for being gay and for having speech and hearing impediments, including tinnitus. The supervisor's disability was not the cause for his termination, because the alleged adverse employment event happened several months after the supervisor filed his last discrimination complaint, and there is no evidence that his superior treated him differently than his non-disabled co-workers.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Zilly, Filed On: December 22, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv581, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Sanders denies a county's motion for summary judgment, finding there are genuine issues of fact regarding a clerk claiming she was terminated for being white by the majority-black Board of Supervisors, and not for performance and discipline issues.
Court: USDC Northern District of Mississippi , Judge: Sanders, Filed On: December 21, 2023, Case #: 4:21cv166, NOS: Civil Rights - Habeas Corpus, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Bissoon dismisses constructive discharge and hostile work claims against the school district. The wife of her now-deceased husband failed to prove her husband, who had Crohn’s disease, was discriminated against to the point he had to resign because he continued working there until his death. Details supporting the claim of hostile work were insufficient, so the court will allow the wife to submit an amended claim.
Court: USDC Western District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Bissoon, Filed On: December 21, 2023, Case #: 2:23cv33, NOS: Civil Rights - Habeas Corpus, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Cogburn denies the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s motion to dismiss allegations of gender and pregnancy discrimination after two other staff members walked in on her while she was pumping her breasts for milk. The employee asked for accommodation to pump on the job, which the department granted, but despite signage, two staff separately walked in on her and didn’t leave until she directed multiple times for them to leave the room. Another staff joked that one who had walked in on her looked like “a deer in the headlights” upon seeing her pumping. The employee also found a camera installed in one of the rooms the department had designated for her to pump. The department claims the employee doesn’t have enough evidence to claim discrimination, but at this stage, she has produced sufficient evidence to state her claim.
Court: USDC Western District of North Carolina, Judge: Cogburn, Filed On: December 19, 2023, Case #: 3:23cv634, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Friot denies the defendant police officer's summary judgment motion as to the Section 1983 equal protection claim against him. The former employee's evidence, though "shaky at best," is sufficient to survive the officer's summary judgment motion. Specifically, there is an issue of fact as to the date of an alleged sexual assault.
Court: USDC Western District of Oklahoma , Judge: Friot, Filed On: December 15, 2023, Case #: 5:21cv466, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Bisson grants Waste Management’s partial motion to dismiss a former employee’s age discrimination, retaliation and harassment claims brought after he was fired for violating a company rule. The former employee’s claims fail because the cited laws apply to race, not age discrimination. The company is further ordered to file an answer to the surviving portions of the complaint.
Court: USDC Western District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Bisson, Filed On: December 15, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv1876, NOS: Civil Rights - Habeas Corpus, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Bisson grants the Extra Mile Education Foundation’s motion to dismiss, without prejudice, discrimination claims for firing a school counselor with an amputated leg. The counselor failed to provide evidence sufficient to show that Extra Mile was a joint employer with Crossroads Foundation, which allegedly failed to accommodate her disability. Her remaining claim will proceed against the Crossroads Foundation.
Court: USDC Western District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Bisson, Filed On: December 15, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv1864, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation