HOUSTON – West Plaza Management, Inc. is accused in a lawsuit of terminating a female employee with a hearing impairment last year, recent Houston federal court records show.
Marilyn Lopez filed the 10-page suit against her former employer on Sept. 13. West Plaza’s owner, Joe Ting, is listed as a co-defendant.
The suit explains that Lopez required an operation for cholesteatoma, “an abnormal skin growth in the middle ear behind the eardrum that can destroy the surrounding delicate bones of the middle ear,” which was scheduled in mid-June 2017. The ex-property manager of the defendant’s Bellaire Silk property informed her supervisor about the procedure.
According to the original petition, Ting inquired Lopez through a text to her supervisor about the date of her surgery and the amount of days off she would need for recovery, but after the plaintiff provided him with the information, she was told that “Ting wanted to fire her.”
The defendants fired the complainant on June 1, 2017, about three weeks before the operation in question.
Consequently, Lopez seeks unspecified monetary damages and a jury trial.
She is represented by Terrence B. Robinson and Laura A. Hernandez of the TB Robinson Law Group, PLLC in Houston.
Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas Case No. 4:18-CV-3273