2023

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In a recent case, Schneider v. Trumbull County Veterans Service Commission, 2023 WL 2500173 (N.D.Ohio March 14, 2023), the court denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s sexual harassment claim. Here, the parties conceded that plaintiff “established that she experienced unwelcome harassment based on sex and that the harassing conduct was sufficiently severe or…

Read More Sexual Harassment Claim Survives Summary Judgment; Jury Must Decide Defendant’s Knowledge of Harassment and Adequacy of Response Harassment Allegations
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In a recent case, High v. Wells Fargo Bank, 2023 WL 2505540 (E.D.Va. March 14, 2023), the court offered interpretive guidance on 42 U.S.C. § 1981 which, generally, prohibits race discrimination in the making and enforcement of contracts (which has been interpreted to mean the “at will” employment relationship). While Title VII of the Civil…

Read More Court Discusses 42 U.S.C. § 1981’s Applicability Where National Origin Discrimination is Alleged
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In a recent case, Gerzhgorin v. Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. et al, 2023 WL 2469824 (2d Cir. March 13, 2023), the U.S. Court of Appeals, inter alia, affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s religion-based religious discrimination claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New York City Human…

Read More Antisemitic Comments, Deemed “Facially Neutral” by Court, Fail to Make Out Religious Discrimination Claim
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In Schlegel v. Finney County, Kansas, Board of Commissioners, No. 21-1288-JAR-KGG, 2023 WL 2428900 (D.Kan. March 9, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s sexual orientation-based hostile work environment claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the decision: Here, Plaintiff points to no single…

Read More Sexual Orientation-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Survives Summary Judgment
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In Walker v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, 2023 WL 2428903 (D.Kan. March 9, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s race-based hostile work environment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the decision: Defendant argues that the Court must dismiss this claim…

Read More Race-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Survives Dismissal; Court Cites “Troublemaker” and “Angry Black Woman” Comments
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In McKenzie v. Southern Nuclear Operating Company, 2023 WL 2403778 (S.D.Ga. March 8, 2023), the court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s race- and gender-based hostile work environment claims. From the decision: At most, there are only two allegations Plaintiff has made that can be connected in any way to her race or…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Claim Dismissed; Comment About Plaintiff’s Thighs, “Baby Daddy” Insufficient
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In Stein v. Town of Greenburgh et al, No. 21-CV-05673 (PMH), 2023 WL 2432574 (S.D.N.Y. March 8, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s sex-based hostile work environment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Here’s the core of court’s decision on that point: A claim…

Read More Title VII Sex-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Survives Dismissal; “Continuing Violation” Doctrine Applied
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In Grastorf v. Community Bank, N.A., No. 19-CV-1627S, 2023 WL 2266336 (W.D.N.Y. Feb. 28, 2023), the court, inter alia, granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s sex-based discrimination claim. Here, plaintiff’s case falters because she could not demonstrate that she was treated worse than a “similarly situated” person outside her protected class. The…

Read More Title VII Sex Discrimination Claim Dismissed; Alleged Comparators Were Not “Similarly Situated” to Plaintiff
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In Baez v. Amazon.com Services, LLC, 2023 WL 2390539 (E.D.N.Y. March 7, 2023), the court, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s national origin-based hostile work environment claim. After summarizing the “black letter” law applicable to this claim, the court applied it to the facts, as follows: Here, Plaintiff alleges that ever since the…

Read More National Origin-Based Hostile Work Environment Dismissed Against Amazon
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In Hunter v. Barnes & Noble, Inc., No. 153467/2022, 2023 WL 2366844 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Mar. 3, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claims of race discrimination, race-based harassment, retaliation, and aiding-and-abetting discrimination under the New York State Human Rights Law. As to plaintiff’s “adverse action” discrimination…

Read More Race-Based Discrimination Claim Sufficiently Alleged Against Barnes & Noble
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