291 results for 'cat:"Civil Rights" AND cat:"Employment Discrimination"'.
J. Trauger grants the restaurant defendants' motion for summary judgment in this lawsuit brought by a former employee alleging age discrimination in connection with his termination. The former employee, who worked as a general manager, fails to show that his termination was due to his age. The defendants cited "his restaurant's culture, as evidenced by the complaints," and he does not establish that the reason was pretext for discrimination.
Court: USDC Middle District of Tennessee , Judge: Trauger, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv885, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Evidence, employment Discrimination
J. Bloom approves a state commission’s motion to dismiss employment discrimination claim by a former employee who alleged he was harassed and fired due to a disability that made him fall asleep on the job. Because the former employee took no action for more than two years after initiating the case, he did not make a good faith effort to serve notice, as required.
Court: USDC Middle District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Bloom, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv1820, NOS: Civil Rights - Habeas Corpus, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. O’Connor finds that an attorney who claims that she was not promoted because she is female did not show that her employer’s reason for not promoting her is pretextual. The attorney’s claims that the qualifications of person hired for the position were exaggerated do not meet the requirement for pretext to a discriminatory decision that any reasonable employer would find the protected class member’s qualifications are superior. However, the attorney’s claims for failure to promote based on her age can proceed. The employer’s motion to dismiss claims of discrimination based on sex are granted but the motion to dismiss based on age is denied.
Court: USDC Northern District of Texas , Judge: O’Connor, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 4:23cv566, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
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J. Novak denies the department's motion to dismiss sex-based employment discrimination claims. The X-ray machines used on correctional officers can not differentiate between contraband and a menstruation product like tampons, pads, or IUDs. Every time the machine finds a foreign object, even if it is purely for menstruation, the correctional officers are subject to severely invasive strip searches. The department has failed to establish a policy that considers that its female employees will be subject to strip searches far more frequently than males purely due to sex-based characteristics.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Virginia, Judge: Novak , Filed On: April 19, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv757, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Government, employment Discrimination
J. Kagan finds that the circuit improperly dismissed workplace gender discrimination claims a police officer brought against the city because the court applied the wrong standard in requiring the officer to prove that being transferred to the intelligence division constituted a significant employment disadvantage, as that the transfer left her worse off was sufficient. She was transferred from a prestigious job working with police commanders to a primarily administrative job overseeing a single district's patrol officers; she often had to work weekends to make up for the new, less regular schedule; and her take-home car was taken away.
Court: US Supreme Court, Judge: Kagan, Filed On: April 17, 2024, Case #: 22-193 , Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination
J. Albregts refuses to dismiss a black worker's pro se race and national origin discrimination and retaliation claims to proceed. The temp employee says it took longer than normal to receive an offer for full-time employment from Crocs. He also had difficulty obtaining his employee discount code and was ignored when he sought help. That the employee was reassigned after complaining, among other specific allegations, is sufficient to allege retaliation.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Albregts , Filed On: April 15, 2024, Case #: 2:24cv582, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. McGlynn rules a former Walmart employee may pursue race discrimination against the superstore. The employee sufficiently alleged that she was terminated because she is Black, due to her supervisor's racist views, and not for disciplinary issues.
Court: USDC Southern District of Illinois, Judge: McGlynn, Filed On: April 11, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv1926, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
J. Silva grants the city's motion for summary judgment on a black former police chief's allegations the president of the police union discriminated against her on the basis of race and sex. Though the chief was hired to facilitate departmental change with support from the city, complaints were lodged after she began implementing new procedures, particularly that involving discipline for officer misconduct. The union president says the chief lacked accountability, creating greater division within the department. As the chief's subordinate, the union president is not liable for the chief's termination or any alleged due process violation.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Silva , Filed On: April 5, 2024, Case #: 2:20cv1761, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Due Process, employment Discrimination
J. Boyle grants 21 organizations’ motions to dismiss allegations of gender, age, national origin and disability discrimination brought by an accountant who was not hired by any of them. In this pro se action, the accountant fails to state anything more specific than the facts that he applied to the positions and was not accepted to them. This is not sufficient to state a discrimination claim in any instance.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Boyle, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 5:23cv38, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, employment Discrimination
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
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. 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. 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. 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. 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