WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, filed a brief as amicus curaie, or “friend of the court,” to the Texas 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
HOUSTON – The First Court of Appeals recently affirmed the dismissal of an age discrimination lawsuit brought against the Office of the Attorney General.
HOUSTON — A former Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) senior production engineer alleges the company retaliated against her after she suffered from stillbirth complications and while she was in the process of adopting a special needs child from India.
Marci Hocevear prevailed in her appeal concerning her sexual assault case against Molecular Health, Inc. after a lower court granted the company’s plea to jurisdiction.
BEAUMONT -- A three-panel appellate court has affirmed a ruling in favor of the city of Beaumont that granted the city’s plea to the jurisdiction and dismissed the claim of a former city fire chief.
HOUSTON (SE Texas Record) — Discrimination allegations filed before a longtime Harris County probation officer was denied a promotion does not, on its own, prove the promotion denial was linked to the claims, a state appeals court said in a ruling issued April 18.
Jackson Lewis P.C., one of the country’s preeminent workplace law firms, is pleased to announce Danielle Alexis Matthews has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a Principal.
HOUSTON – The Texas Court of Appeals for the First District recently upheld a summary judgment in favor of Doubletree Hotel in a retaliation lawsuit filed by a former maintenance technician.
Alicia Sienne Voltmer, certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, has joined the Dallas office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as of counsel.
Texas’s employment discrimination statute (the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act, codified in the Texas Labor Code at section 21.001 et seq.), like its federal counterpart (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. section 2000e et seq.), prohibits discrimination on the basis of enumerated characteristics, including “sex.” Accordingly, an employer is forbidden to treat an applicant or employee differently because of that person’s sex. Without a sex-based nexus, the employer’s conduct may be rude, unfair, obnoxious, boorish, or insensitive, but will not constitute illegal sex discrimination.
By DAVID YATES The Ninth Court of Appeals recently affirmed a lower court’s ruling granting a plea to the jurisdiction motion brought by Communities in School Southeast Texas – effectively stopping a pair of plaintiffs from recasting their claim to avoid dismissal under the Texas Labor Code. Originally alleging retaliation and discrimination, former CISSET employees Elizabeth Woods and Karen Prater filed suit against the outreach program and supervisor Karen Newton on Nov. 29, 2010, in Jefferso
The Ninth Court of Appeals recently affirmed a lower court’s ruling granting a plea to the jurisdiction motion brought by Communities in School Southeast Texas – effectively stopping a pair of plaintiffs from recasting their claim to avoid dismissal under the Texas Labor Code.
