16 results for 'judge:"Baylson"'.
J. Baylson grants, in part, the transit authority’s motion to dismiss a former employee’s pro se suit alleging she was discriminated against because she is Black and because she requested accommodations for a shoulder injury and eye disability. The employee failed to sufficiently plead a case for race discrimination based solely on one supervisor who “made comments about hanging.”
Court: USDC Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Baylson, Filed On: March 18, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv1260, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, Employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
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J. Baylson denies Thomas Jefferson University’s motion for judgment on the pleadings over a female medical resident’s sex discrimination claim stemming from her allegedly being raped when at a party at the home of an attending male physician, but does order a new trial on on her Title IX claim. The jury’s verdict on the sex discrimination claim was not against the weight of evidence, however a new trial is warranted in part because the university’s counsel was not allowed to cross-examine important witnesses and because the court should not have excluded certain text messages that contradicted the medical resident’s testimony at trial.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Baylson, Filed On: March 14, 2024, Case #: 2:20cv2967, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Education, Employment, Evidence
J. Baylson grants in part a borough’s motion for summary judgment in this negligence case surrounding police officers’ high-speed pursuit of a citizen who, while fleeing police, struck another vehicle, killing one passenger on impact and causing another to suffer a serious brain injury. The police officers are entitled to summary judgment because they did not intend to harm the passengers while pursuing the fleeing suspect.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Baylson, Filed On: February 2, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv1695, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Immunity, Negligence