Friday, September 28, 2018
- Sixth Circuit: Americans with Disabilities Act does not preclude Equal Protection claim for disability employment discrimination under 42 USC § 1983 (noting that, “[t]o establish a violation of the Equal Protection Clause based on disability discrimination, Plaintiff must show that there was no rational basis for the state action that treated her differently because of her disability”)
- Fourth Circuit: Retroactive monetary awards such as the back pay are mandatory legal remedies under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act upon a finding of liability
- Eleventh Circuit: Human resources employee engaged in Title VII-protected activity when she provided assistance to another employee in filing EEOC complaint (“when a human resource employee handling another employee’s complaint deviates from an internal reporting procedure, the manner of the HR employee’s actions may be unreasonable [and therefore unprotected from retaliation,] [b]ut not always”)
- Law Court: Decision of Maine Labor Relations Board that police union did not act arbitrarily in its negotiations with town affirmed where substantial record evidence supported Board’s determination that union’s actions were not so far outside a wide range of reasonableness as to be irrational
- US District Court ME: Magistrate Judge held that non-party employer had right to be heard on whether documents generated during its settlement with plaintiff (the present case is against a different employer) at Maine Human Rights Commission should be produced subject to confidentiality order notwithstanding statutory confidentiality of documents under Maine Human Rights Act
- US District Court ME: Summary judgment denied on claims of retaliation under the Maine Whistleblowers’ Protection Act, Title VII, and the Maine Human Rights Act; and on hostile work environment claims under Title VII and the Maine Human Rights Act; but granted on disparate treatment theory underlying Title VII and Maine Human Rights Act sex discrimination claims
- US District Court ME: Default judgment of $900,000 in compensatory damages and $200,000 in punitive damages awarded to former inmate against former corrections officer at reentry center on tort and 8th Amendment claims arising out of repeated sexual assaults while inmate was in custody
- MHRC: October 22nd Commission Meeting Agenda posted
- Sayfarth Shaw Blog: Federal Judge Rules that Employer Violated Connecticut Law by Refusing to Hire Medical Marijuana User
- Bangor Daily: Man reaches settlement with Maine officials after suing over rape allegations
- Bangor Daily: Former Bangor housing worker sues, alleging sexual harassment
