5 results for 'cat:"Employment Discrimination" AND cat:"Police Misconduct"'.
J. Van Meerveld grants summary judgment to the city of New Orleans, dismissing a Title VII racial discrimination suit by a fired white police sergeant who alleges he was disciplined more harshly than nine black officers for similar offenses. The sergeant’s eight social media posts clearly advocate unnecessary force and use terms historically used to demean black people, such as “animals,” and “savages," to describe Black Lives Matters protesters after the murder of George Floyd. The black officers cited were not comparators. The Louisiana Supreme Court reinstated the sergeant with back pay and emoluments on appeal.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Van Meerveld, Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv5060, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment Discrimination, police Misconduct
J. Guidry finds for a downtown New Orleans taxing district, dismissing its white former security guard’s Title VII complaint concerning his black supervisor’s alleged continual breakroom tirades against racist white people, the K.K.K., Donald Trump and "'racist white police officers that shoot [b]lack people because they hate them’.” Even assuming the supervisor’s remarks can constitute race-based harassment, the conduct the ex-officer alleges pales in comparison to the kind of verbal harassment circuit courts have held support a Title VII hostile workplace claim.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Guidry, Filed On: March 19, 2024, Case #: 2:21cv1323, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Evidence, employment Discrimination, police Misconduct
J. Lefkow partially grants the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s motion for summary judgment on a Latino air marshal’s discrimination, retaliation and hostile work environment claims. The former air marshal claims that during a 2018 meeting with other air marshals, a white duty supervisor mocked his accent and called him a “vato,” slang for a Latino gang member. Though the supervisor was compelled to issue a formal apology, the air marshal was later passed over for promotion by another white DHS officer. The court grants the DHS summary judgment on the marshal’s race discrimination and retaliation claims, but allows his hostile work environment claim to proceed.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Lefkow, Filed On: September 29, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv405, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation, police Misconduct
J. Guidry grants summary judgment to New Orleans, dismissing a police officer’s sexual harassment and hostile workplace claims against the City, holding that the NOPD “swiftly” demoted her supervising sergeant on undisputed allegations that he made inappropriate comments about her breasts and about having sex with her, which she surreptitiously recorded. The officer failed to report her supervisor’s misconduct until four months later, despite opportunities to do so. “Victims of workplace harassment have an obligation to report any alleged misconduct,” and “an employer cannot be held liable for inappropriate conduct of which it had no knowledge.”
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Guidry, Filed On: June 20, 2023, Case #: 2:19cv10766, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation, police Misconduct
J. Bucklo partially grants an Illinois city’s motion for summary judgment on employment discrimination claims brought by one of its Black former police officers. The former officer claims he was regularly passed over for promotion in lieu of his younger, white colleagues, and that he was retaliated against in numerous ways, then eventually fired, after he complained to the city’s HR Department that a white officer had compared him to a stereotypical Black character on a TV show. The court finds the former officer has not persuasively argued his discrimination claims, but allows his retaliation claims to proceed.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Bucklo, Filed On: June 9, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv2939, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation, police Misconduct