Total Articles: 4
Federal District Court Permits Race Discrimination Case to Proceed When Caucasian Security Officer Was Not Fired for Similar Conduct
A terminated African-American security officer sued his former employer for race discrimination. Despite having admitted that his employer was justified in terminating him for violating company policy, the employee later claimed that a Caucasian security officer received more favorable treatment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. (Johnson v. Western Hotel & Casino, D. Nev., No. 10-cv-01590, 10/19/11).
Hostility toward a racial group different than that to which the plaintiff belongs: Probative or not?
A group of Hispanic employees sue for a racially hostile work environment. The question: Can they prove their case by evidence of race-based hostility towards black employees?
Employer’s Honest Belief in Reason for Adverse Action May Overcome Claim of Discrimination.
A physician who sued a hospital, its medical staff, board of trustees, and CEO after his application for staff privileges was denied was unable to show that a hospital’s true reasons for the denial was race discrimination. Talwar v. Mercer County Joint Twp. Community Hosp., N.D. Ohio, No. 3:06cv3092, 1/15/09. In that case, a federal district court in Ohio granted summary judgment to the defendants, who had been sued for racial/national origin discrimination under 42 USC §§ 1981 and 1983 by an Asian-American surgeon after that physician was denied privileges to practice general surgery at the hospital.
Tax Manager's Race Bias Suit Rejected (pdf).
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
recently upheld the dismissal
of a lawsuit brought by an employee
who claimed that she was discriminated
against on the basis of her race
and sex. According to the court, the
employee failed to show that she met
her employer’s legitimate expectations.
