59 results for 'cat:"Education" AND cat:"Employment" AND cat:"Employment Discrimination"'.
J. Parker grants the school system's summary judgment motion in this lawsuit brought by a teacher asserting claims under Title VII and the Tennessee Human Rights Act for discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation. Certain discrete claims of harassment are time-barred, and her hostile work environment claim is not supported by the allegations.
Court: USDC Western District of Tennessee , Judge: Parker, Filed On: April 29, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv2346, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, education, employment Discrimination
J. Novak denies the university's motion to dismiss claims of gender discrimination. An accomplished Black female news director turned communications professor properly presented facts that her Black male supervisor gave her unfavorable assignments, tried to take her role as internship director away, suggested she needed to teach more courses than anyone else in the department and directed her to teach specific courses without her input, while her male and White female counterparts exercised flexibility in choosing courses to instruct.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Virginia, Judge: Novak, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv777, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Drell orders a school's executive director to turn over complete and unredacted records of any phone calls and text messages he exchanged with three subordinate employees, during two days of depositions for an English instructor’s Title VII sexual harassment and retaliation suit. The school destroyed evidence to conceal it from the litigant-teacher and, therefore, the teacher is granted an “adverse inference” as a sanction. A jury may infer that deleted texts would have shown the executive director instructed the three workers how they were to testify in their depositions and that the testimony in their own depositions reflects the instructions of their boss.
Court: USDC Western District of Louisiana , Judge: Drell, Filed On: April 17, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv4419, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
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J. Jackson-Akiwumi finds that the lower court properly found for the college, ruling it did not discriminate against the employee when it fired her after nearly 20 decades of employment. The employee fails to show a causal link between her filing of a petition with the Illinois Department of Human Rights and her termination, as the record supports the college's claim that it fired her after becoming increasingly dissatisfied with her performance. Affirmed.
Court: 7th Circuit, Judge: Jackson-Akiwumi, Filed On: April 17, 2024, Case #: 22-2516, Categories: education, employment Discrimination
J. Hanen finds that the claims of professor who was denied a promotion after speaking out against discriminatory behavior toward women university employees can proceed to a jury trial based only on professor’s retaliation and discrimination claims. The professor cited emails in which she repeatedly pointed out gender-based discrimination to her supervisors, along with formal complaints she submitted to the university, which provide sufficient context for retaliation.
Court: USDC Southern District of Texas, Judge: Hanen, Filed On: April 11, 2024, Case #: 4:15cv2824, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Kleeh grants in part the university's and several professors' motions to dismiss a fellow Department of Public Administration professor's religious and national origin discrimination suit. In addition to 42 U.S.C.§ 1981 not affording protection against discrimination based on national origin or religion, the court grants the professors' motion in both their individual and official capacities in counts five and six of the complaint. On the similar claims in counts one and two under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the court grants the university's motion to strike references to the professor's 2017 denial of tenure and allegations predating Nov. 20, 2020, but denies it to strike his allegation the Department Faculty Evaluation Committee denied his promotion to full professor in 2023.
Court: USDC Northern District of West Virginia, Judge: Kleeh, Filed On: March 26, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv153, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, education, employment Discrimination
J. Ellison finds for a school district on a former teacher's employment discrimination action. She fails to make out a prima facie case of discrimination, nor has she shown the district's legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for non-renewal was pretextual.
Court: USDC Southern District of Texas, Judge: Ellison, Filed On: March 22, 2024, Case #: 4:23cv145, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Papillion grants a university's motion to dismiss the age discrimination complaint against the president-chancellor and other college officials by an 82-year-old white, formerly tenured associate professor. The professor alleges the reasons for his firing - student complaints of allegedly racist and sexually inappropriate comments in class - are a pretext for age bias. Supervisors cannot be held individually liable under federal age discrimination law, and he has not exhausted his administrative remedies for his claims against the school.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Papillion, Filed On: March 21, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv1423, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, education, employment Discrimination
J. Seybert trims a 60-year-old disabled veteran’s employment discrimination complaint against a Long Island-based law school and allows a single claim for age discrimination to proceed to discovery. The court finds comments made by one of the interviewers, who said the university wanted someone to remain in the position for several years, could suggest that age was a consideration not to hire the applicant and instead hire a younger, less qualified employee.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Seybert, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 2:21cv1345, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment, employment Discrimination
J. D’Agostino dismisses with prejudice an employment discrimination and retaliation complaint brought against Hamilton College by a university professor, who says he was targeted for being a Black immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many of his allegations involve actions that occurred prior to 2018, including the university’s decision not to appoint him to chair of the French and Franco Studies Department in 2012, which the court finds are untimely.
Court: USDC Northern District of New York, Judge: D’Agostino, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 6:22cv1395, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Dever grants North Carolina State University’s motion to dismiss allegations of disability discrimination brought by a Ph.D. candidate who claims the university did not accommodate his ADHD, depression and anxiety diagnoses. He requested multiple leaves of absence during his program to attend mental health appointments, which the university afforded him. An advisor gave a research assistantship to a different student because the candidate was “a liability.” However, the candidate’s hostile work environment and failure to accommodate claims are not sufficient or time-barred under the ADA.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Dever, Filed On: March 19, 2024, Case #: 5:23cv331, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, education, employment Discrimination
J. Epley finds the lower court properly granted the school district's motion for summary judgment on race discrimination claims filed by a black employee. She failed to establish a prima facie case for discrimination, given that she was not replaced with an employee outside her protected class and the district had legitimate reasons not to renew her contract. Affirmed.
Court: Ohio Court Of Appeals, Judge: Epley, Filed On: March 15, 2024, Case #: 2024-Ohio-979, Categories: education, Evidence, employment Discrimination
J. Seabright partially denies summary judgment to the university in a dispute with its women’s softball head coach, who claims the school refused to pay her the full salary for head coaches, despite paying male coaches more. The coach established that she and the male coaches, including her predecessor, were similarly experienced and were classified as part-time, just as she was, despite the university claiming her lower pay was based on the job status. The coach’s retaliation claims, however, meet the burden for summary judgment as there is no evidence that she suffered negative consequences for reported the pay gap, as was even promoted to head coach after the initial complaints.
Court: USDC Hawaii, Judge: Seabright, Filed On: March 13, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv400, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, Evidence, employment Discrimination
J. Watson partially dismisses a school janitor’s claims that the Hawaii education department refused to hire him on a full time basis because he is Black. The department and the individual school staff have sovereign immunity on liability claims. Claims against some of the school staff regarding aiding and abetting discrimination may proceed, as the janitor showed they were directly involved in the decision not to hire him.
Court: USDC Hawaii, Judge: Watson, Filed On: February 16, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv294, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, Immunity, employment Discrimination
Per curiam, the circuit finds the district court properly found for Louisiana Tech on a doctoral student's discrimination and due process claims arising from her resignation from the program after the faculty reviewed her research paper as poor. There is no evidence the university failed to investigate the student's due process complaint, or that it acted in bad faith in conducting its review. Affirmed.
Court: 5th Circuit, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: February 5, 2024, Case #: 23-30504, Categories: education, Due Process, employment Discrimination
J. Bush finds the lower court properly dismissed the black professor's discrimination and retaliation claims against the university. The actions taken by university officials - denial of grant opportunities and reassignments - were not based on the professor's race and were not pervasive enough to support a hostile work environment claim. Affirmed.
Court: 6th Circuit, Judge: Bush, Filed On: January 30, 2024, Case #: 23-5557, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Williams grants, in part, Yale University's motion for summary judgment, ruling the former chief of cardiovascular medicine cannot make a plausible contract claim related to his removal from that position after sexual assault allegations. His employment agreement with the university guaranteed only his job as a professor. However, because the removal of several honorific titles and endowments after the allegations could be considered an adverse employment action under precedent from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the sex discrimination claim will proceed.
Court: USDC Connecticut, Judge: Williams, Filed On: January 17, 2024, Case #: 3:19cv1547, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, Contract
J. Quattlebaum finds the lower court improperly dismissed the employee's claims for being time-barred. The university fired the employee in April 2019 after a graduate student submitted a report that the two were dating while she was a student. The employee unsuccessfully appealed the university's decision in June of 2019. Two years later, in May of 2021, she brought federal due process claims within two years of the university's decision to deny her appeal. Reversed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Quattlebaum , Filed On: January 9, 2024, Case #: 22-1441, Categories: education, Due Process, employment Discrimination
J. Higginson finds the district court properly found for a university on a black administrative coordinator's sexual harassment and retaliation suit. The record demonstrates the university took prompt remedial action after an investigation supported her claim that a veterinarian had slapped her on the buttocks. Furthermore, she fails to show the university's reasons for relocating her were pretextual. Affirmed.
Court: 5th Circuit, Judge: Higginson , Filed On: January 8, 2024, Case #: 22-30699, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, employment Retaliation
J. Schreier denies a university's motion to to dismiss retaliation claims brought by two music professors who alleged they were illegally terminated. A female professor was allegedly excluded from meetings so the men could engage in “real talk.” She filed a Title Title IX complaint claiming discrimination and retaliation. Another professor allegedly faced similar retaliation after the female professor told university officials that he would be a witness for her. He was subsequently removed from his position as director of choral studies. The female professor's sex discrimination claims with respect to her alleged removal as department chair, director of vocal studies, director of the university summer music camp and reduced salary continue.
Court: South Dakota Supreme Court, Judge: Schreier, Filed On: December 22, 2023, Case #: 4:23cv4086, Categories: education, employment, employment Discrimination
J. Mastroianni grants a university's motion to dismiss and deny, as futile, a former postdoctoral researcher's motion to file an amended complaint. The researcher's motion is barred by a 3-year statute of limitations.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Mastroianni, Filed On: December 21, 2023, Case #: 3:19cv30056, NOS: Civil Rights - Habeas Corpus, Categories: education, employment, employment Discrimination