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Retaliation
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Inside the False Claims Act
Fourth Circuit Weighs in on Standards for Pleading Presentment and Retaliation
On December 26, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion in United States ex rel. Grant v. United Airlines affirming dismissal of the relator’s…
Litigators at Work
A $6M Misunderstanding? Pennsylvania Jury Finds Age and National Origin Discrimination
By Diane Windholz, Damon W. Silver
Following a five-day trial, and nine hours of deliberation, a federal jury in Pennsylvania has awarded more than $6 million to a former Teva Pharmaceuticals employee. Middlebrooks v. Teva Pharmaceuticals…
Employment Class and Collective Action Update
Court Decertifies Class of Female Drivers’ Hostile Work Environment Claims, Trims Retaliation Claims
Finding that the case involved “actions perpetuated by one individual against another individual in an isolated environment, not conduct in a common environment directed against several women at once,” Chief…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Fifth Circuit Reverses Judgment as Matter of Law
Luis Cristain sustained an injury at work. His employer, Hunter Buildings and Manufacturing, fired him soon after he fell from scaffolding. Eight days later and a few days after filing…
Employment Class Action Blog
District Court Decertifies Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Suit Against Trucking Company
By Greg Mersol
Most employment class actions today are wage and hour matters, but class actions for alleged discrimination are still brought and can present their own unique challenges for both plaintiffs and…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Grants Cert in Title VII Exhaustion of Remedies Case to Resolve Circuit Split
By Tracy Thomas
SCOTUSBlog, Fort Bend County v. DavisWhether Title VII’s administrative-exhaustion requirement is a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit, as three circuits have held, or a waivable claim-processing rule, as eight circuits have…
California Employment Law Update
A California Jury Strikes Again – Hands Out $11 Million Verdict
A Los Angeles jury awarded more than $11 million to two former employees who claimed they were sexually harassed and retaliated against for complaining about the harassment. Megan Meadowcroft and…
FB Employment Discrimination Blog
Retaliation: What Is Temporal Proximity?
It’s that wonderful time of the year when we remind everyone about the concept of retaliation in discrimination law. It’s pretty important: in 2016, then-EEOC Chair Jenny R. Yang said that…
Workplace Sexual Harassment Law
Hostile Work Environment and Retaliation Claims Revived by Federal Appellate Court and Allowed to Proceed to a Jury Trial
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ray v. International Paper Company, released on November 28, 2018, overturned a lower federal court’s decision to dismiss Tamika Ray’s sexual harassment, hostile…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
Does Title VII protect an employee’s self-help discovery?
Suppose one of your employees believes that she was discriminated against because of her protected class. She files a charge of discrimination with the EEOC, and, in support of the…