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The recent case of Watson v. School Board Of Franklin Parish out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit provides a few good lessons. Let’s start with the facts of the case. Esther Watson worked in education, including as a teacher for over twenty...
1994. Cleveland, Ohio. Art Modell had just stolen the Browns from Cleveland. The Cleveland Indians (now Guardians) had just moved into Jacob’s Field (now Progressive Field) and were fielding an amazing young team of players. I will die on the hill arguing that the...
Torrey Terrial Townsend was employed by First Student as a bus driver. After Townsend was fired for leaving keys in an unattended school bus, First Student fired him. Townsend, who is Black, sued her former employer for race discrimination and wrongful termination...
Today, our employment discrimination lawyers review another example of an employee being fired for bad conduct but trying to save her job by asserting employment discrimination. In this case out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit,...
As the United States Supreme Court made abundantly clear yesterday in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., et al. v. Hewitt, it all comes down to how you are paid. The facts are fairly simple: Hewitt was an offshore oilrig worker who was paid on a day rate basis (so...
Rafael Fox was promoted to be a store manager at Starbucks in New York. Fox was transferred to the West Broadway and Leonard store to replace the prior store manager, who had committed wage theft violations. In November 2017, New York City’s Fair Workweek legislation...
Meet Henry Diaz, a former police officer for the City of Somerville in Massachusetts. In the early morning hours of June 30, 2017, Diaz, who was off-duty at the time, was driving through East Boston. When a pedestrian stepped in front of his car, he stopped, got out...
Sometimes employment discrimination cases do not fit a predisposed pattern of wrongful termination or even refusal to hire cases. Nonetheless, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related statutes protect employees from discrimination based on their...
Haley Hrdlicka was employed by General Motors for over 30 years. For the vast majority of that time, she worked in GM’s Sculpting Department. In 1998, GM provided her an eight-month leave of absence after the birth of her first child; and then in 2001, Hrdlicka was...
Are there fewer veterans today than in the past? Yes. The total share of the U.S. population with military experience is declining in recent decades. According to the Pew Research Center: In 2018, less than 7% of U.S. adults were veterans, down from 18% in 1980. This...
Let’s look at a recent article from CBS News: Companies Save Billions Of Dollars By Giving Employees Fake "Manager" Titles, Study Shows. The article is a summary of a report generated by researchers from the University of Texas and Harvard Business School....
Discrimination against LGBTQ+ people is far too common, especially these days. It seems like you cannot turn on the news without seeing a story about discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. If it is not a story about LGBTQ+...
Let’s look at the recent case Hightower v. Keystone Automotive Indus., No. 5:21-CV-1792, 2023 WL 1412917 (N.D. Ohio Jan. 31, 2023) out of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Although our employment law blogs typically focus on United...
As our employment lawyers have regularly preached in our blogs, do not wait to bring your potential discrimination claims. This point was recently highlighted by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Brannon v. Secretary, Department Of...
So, you’ve taken your employment case – be it wrongful termination, race discrimination or sexual harassment – to trial and got a jury verdict. Now what? Our employment discrimination lawyers have blogged a lot about what it takes to get a case to a jury and shared...
In Okwo v. Houston Methodist the Woodlands, No. 22-20457, 2023 WL 1256576, at *1 (5th Cir. Jan. 31, 2023), Ogochukwo J. Okwo was offered employment by Houston Methodist. However, the job offer was made conditional on the “successful completion of a criminal and...