290 results for 'cat:"Civil Rights" AND cat:"Employment Discrimination"'.
J. Jackson-Akiwumi finds that the lower court improperly found for the employer on a warehouse manager's age discrimination claims. The employee was considered an exemplary worker until a new supervisor came on board who managed to fire the employee within 25 days of joining the company. His reasons for being dissatisfied with the employee's performance within such a short time period do not hold up to scrutiny, and emails suggest the supervisor was searching for reasons to support a decision he had already made. Reversed.
Court: 7th Circuit, Judge: Jackson-Akiwumi, Filed On: December 15, 2023, Case #: 22-1180, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
J. Cardone dismisses some claims in a employment dispute brought by a Black former employee who alleged she was discriminated against while working for a staffing agency providing services for a migrant shelter for unaccompanied children. Although the employee initially held a “leadership position,” she said she was wrongfully demoted and abruptly terminated following a change of ownership between defendant companies. The employee has raised sufficient allegations for her case against the second company for some claims to survive, and while the second company argues that it never in fact employed the woman, she says she was not “privy to information about the precise relationship” between the companies, and it is not her responsibility to “divine facts” that are “in the sole possession of defendants.”
Court: USDC Western District of Texas , Judge: Cardone, Filed On: December 14, 2023, Case #: 3:23cv46, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Richardson dismisses the former employee's complaint against his former employer alleging retaliatory discharge under the Tennessee Public Protection Act and religious discrimination under Title VII, as well as other counts, based on his alleged termination during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The court concludes that the employee's amended complaint fails to meet certain pleading standards.
Court: USDC Middle District of Tennessee , Judge: Richardson, Filed On: December 13, 2023, Case #: 3:21cv923, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Teeter rules a former employee may pursue hostile work environment based on race against his former employer. The former car dealership employee, who is Black, sufficiently showed in court that he was deprived of leads based on his race, and was told to "stop bitching" when he complained.
Court: USDC Kansas, Judge: Teeter, Filed On: December 13, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv2246, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
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J. Conley denies the hospital's motion for summary judgment in an employment discrimination lawsuit from its former CEO, as the record has sufficient evidence that a jury could conclude the hospital fired the 75-year-old CEO because of age instead of his poor job performance, which the hospital claims included ignoring human resources concerns from hospital employees. The CEO's motion to supplement the record with the hospital's amended interrogatory responses is granted.
Court: USDC Western District of Wisconsin, Judge: Conley, Filed On: November 29, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv375, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
J. Brann finds for the department of corrections since evidence does not support gender discrimination claims contending a corrections officer was fired for reporting that a sergeant called her a "bedazzled twat," a slang word used at the correction institute to accuse female officers of sleeping with management for workplace perks, because the record indicates the officer chose to quit rather than wait for her transfer request to be honored.
Court: USDC Middle District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Brann, Filed On: November 28, 2023, Case #: 4:21cv68, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Kim denies the Department of Homeland Security’s motion to dismiss an age and race discrimination suit brought by an over-40 Black former security guard at a Chicago Social Security office. The guard’s employer, a DHS partner, fired him for supposedly mishandling an arrest at the office. Though his union managed to get him reinstated pending DHS approval, the DHS decided he was “not suitable” to return to work. The guard claims the decision was pretextual, and meant to clear him out to make room for younger, non-Black guards. The court finds the guard has adequately alleged that claim.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kim, Filed On: November 22, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv2690, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Johnson grants the dismissal motions filed by the city and the police chief in this lawsuit brought by a former police officer who was allegedly terminated for certain social media posts that violated department rules. The posts at issue were made prior to his employment with the police department, and he contends in this suit that his First Amendment rights were violated by his termination. However, the city's interest "in maintaining a police force that instills public confidence" outweighs the former police officer's interest "in his protected speech."
Court: USDC Northern District of Oklahoma , Judge: Johnson, Filed On: November 21, 2023, Case #: 4:19cv538, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, First Amendment
J. Bell grants a local Catholic diocese's motion to dismiss allegations of Hate Crime Act violations brought by an applicant to a lector position, which involves reading scriptures to the public. The applicant claims the diocese discriminated against him based on his diagnoses of bipolar disorder and the post-traumatic stress disorder he developed from fighting in the Vietnam War. However, because this is a criminal complaint, it cannot be settled in civil court, nor would the court be able to intervene in the decisions of the diocese based on the First Amendment.
Court: USDC Western District of North Carolina, Judge: Bell, Filed On: November 15, 2023, Case #: 3:23cv365, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, First Amendment
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. Fallon grants a request by the Orleans Parish sheriff and her director of employment, dismissing a hostile workplace claim by a human resources staffer who was fired after she was absent for several weeks due to emergency surgery and hospitalization required to protect herself and her newborn child. The manager’s actions, though dubious, did not rise to the level of “objectively offensive harassment.” Without more, the fired staffer’s claims cannot survive. The litigant’s claims against the sheriff remain.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Fallon, Filed On: October 18, 2023, Case #: 2:23cv2981, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Evidence, employment Discrimination