Case # | Name | Category | Court | Judge | Published |
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22-15485
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Amended Opinion: Hittle v. City of Stockton
Summary judgment was affirmed when overwhelming evidence showed that there was no discriminatory animus in City's statements and actions regarding employee's religion. |
Employment Discrimination |
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E. Korman | May 20, 2024 |
C097065
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Hoglund v. Sierra Nevada Memorial-Miners Hospital
Substantial evidence supported plaintiff's age discrimination claim because ample evidence demonstrated that significant participant in her termination exhibited discriminatory animus towards her and that reasons for her firing were pretextual. |
Employment Discrimination, Employment Law |
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P. Krause | May 20, 2024 |
22-15889
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Mattioda v. Nelson
NASA scientist met pleading standard for hostile-work-environment claim when he stated that harassment began after informing superior of his disability. |
Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination |
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D. Forrest | Apr. 23, 2024 |
B323735
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Kuigoua v. Dept. of Veteran Affairs
Inclusion of fundamentally different claims in legal complaint from those contained in administrative complaint concerning alleged employment discrimination meant plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies. |
Employment Discrimination |
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J. Wiley | Apr. 19, 2024 |
22-193
|
Muldrow v. City of St. Louis
Title VII employment discrimination does not require a showing that the injury was "significant." |
Employment Discrimination |
|
E. Kagan | Apr. 18, 2024 |
B303509
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Martin v. Board of Trustees of the California State University
Because defendant had a legitimate basis for firing employee which employee failed to rebut, trial court appropriately granted summary judgment for defendant. |
Employment Discrimination |
|
V. Viramontes | Nov. 15, 2023 |
F085416
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Rossi v. Sequoia Union Elementary School
Where school district employee refused to provide vaccination status or succumb to weekly testing, district's actions against employee were shielded by Confidentiality of Medical Information Act's necessity exception. |
Employment Discrimination |
|
B. Hill | Aug. 29, 2023 |
S273630
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Raines v. U.S. Healthworks Medical Group
Business entities carrying out Fair Employment and Housing Act-regulated activities on behalf of an employer may be held directly liable for FEHA violations. |
Employment Discrimination |
|
M. Jenkins | Aug. 22, 2023 |
22-15485
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Hittle v. City of Stockton
Summary judgment was affirmed when overwhelming evidence showed that there was no discriminatory animus in City's statements and actions regarding employee's religion. |
Employment Discrimination |
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E. Korman | Aug. 7, 2023 |
21-17138
|
Sharp v. S&S Activewear, L.L.C.
Employees' sexual harassment lawsuit survived dismissal since "sexually graphic, violently misogynistic" music played daily in warehouse could constitute a hostile work environment. |
Employment Discrimination |
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M. McKeown | Jun. 8, 2023 |
21-15660
|
Bolden-Hardge v. California State Controller
California State Controller's Office could not use the excuse of undue hardship when employee requested an addendum to oath of government allegiance to accommodate her religious beliefs. |
Employment Discrimination |
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M. Friedland | Apr. 4, 2023 |
A163133
|
Lopez v. La Casa de Las Madres
Plaintiff in pregnancy-discrimination action who failed to provide evidence her condition was related to pregnancy failed to meet her burden of proof. |
Employment Discrimination |
|
A. Tucher | Mar. 20, 2023 |
B314162
|
Lin v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Summary judgment of employee's disability discrimination claim against Kaiser was reversed because a reasonable jury could find that Kaiser's decision to terminate her was substantially motivated by her shoulder injury. |
Employment Discrimination |
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E. Daum | Feb. 28, 2023 |
21-55953
|
Opara v. Yellen
Former IRS agent failed to establish discrimination claim when the direct evidence largely supported her termination based on unauthorized inspections of tax return information. |
Employment Discrimination |
|
M. Bennett | Jan. 18, 2023 |
B311426
|
Allen v. Staples, Inc.
Summary judgment was not appropriate where Equal Pay Act plaintiff-appellant had shown she was paid less than an appropriate male comparator and the defendant failed to provide evidence of its defense. |
Employment Discrimination |
|
D. Kim | Oct. 20, 2022 |
B318588
|
Malloy v. Superior Court (Comprehensive Print Group)
Venue was proper in Los Angeles County because employer allegedly interfered with plaintiff's rights to pregnancy disability leave while she was on leave in Los Angeles County, where she was authorized to work from home. |
Employment Discrimination |
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D. Perluss | Sep. 20, 2022 |
B301486
|
Khoiny v. Dignity Health
Academic deference did not apply to the jury's determination whether medical resident was terminated for discriminatory reasons because residents were primarily treated as employees, not students. |
Employment Discrimination |
|
M. Stratton | Mar. 18, 2022 |
C084698
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Dept. of Corrections & Rehabilitation v. State Personnel Bd.
Plaintiff's burden of proving that the discrimination was a substantial factor motivating an adverse employment action arises only after, not before, the employer has rebutted plaintiff's prima facie showing. |
Employment Discrimination |
|
A. Hoch | Feb. 9, 2022 |
G060420
|
Wilkin v. Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
Summary judgment was properly granted because employee did not present evidence that employer's reasons for terminating employment were pretextual. |
Employment Discrimination |
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R. Fybel | Nov. 22, 2021 |
20-15710
|
Fried v. Wynn Las Vegas
In a hostile work environment claim, the trial court erred by focusing on the customer's behavior rather than the employer's response. |
Employment Discrimination |
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M. Christen | Nov. 19, 2021 |
B305594
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Jorgensen v. Loyola Marymount University
A comment that an employee with hiring influence 'wanted someone younger' for a position is admissible to show pretext in an age discrimination lawsuit. |
Employment Discrimination |
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J. Wiley | Sep. 14, 2021 |
18-17159
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Maner v. Dignity Health
Discrimination motivated by employer's 'paramour preference' is not unlawful sex discrimination under Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
Employment Discrimination |
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C. Bea | Aug. 23, 2021 |
D077711
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Clark v. Superior Court (Arthroscopic & Laser Surgery Center of San Diego)
Plaintiff exhausted her administrative remedies by identifying defendant, even if not by name, as alleged perpetrator of discrimination in Department of Fair Employment and Housing complaint. |
Employment Discrimination |
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C. Aaron | Mar. 23, 2021 |
19-35428
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Freyd v. University of Oregon
Performing the same common core tasks was sufficient to show substantially equal work for Equal Pay Act claim. |
Employment Discrimination |
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J. Bybee | Mar. 16, 2021 |
17-16096
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Amended Opinion: Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising Int'l
Dynamex Operations West Inc. v. Superior Court' applies retroactively; thus, district court's order granting summary judgment to defendant was vacated and matter remanded to apply 'ABC test.' |
Employment Discrimination |
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F. Block | Feb. 4, 2021 |
18-35522
|
Christian v. Umpqua Bank
Summary judgment reversed after finding potential liability for employer's failure to take effective corrective action against harassing customer. |
Employment Discrimination |
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R. Paez | Jan. 4, 2021 |
B296593
|
Shirvanyan v. Los Angeles Community College
To succeed on claim for failure to engage in interactive process, employee must identify reasonable accommodation that would have been available at time interactive process should have occurred. |
Employment Discrimination |
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F. Rothschild | Dec. 31, 2020 |
E074121
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Blue Fountain Pools and Spas Inc. v. Superior Court (Arias)
Plaintiff's work environment sexual harassment claim was not barred by one-year statute of limitations because a continuing violation existed. |
Employment Discrimination |
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M. Slough | Aug. 12, 2020 |
17-1618
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Bostock v. Clayton County
Employers who fire individuals merely for being gay or transgender violate Title VII of Civil Rights Act. |
Employment Discrimination |
|
N. Gorsuch | Jun. 16, 2020 |
B290086
|
Pinter-Brown v. The Regents of the University of California
Trial court erred in allowing testimony of hearsay report and list of anonymous unadjudicated discrimination complaints to be used as propensity evidence. |
Employment Discrimination |
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M. Stratton | Apr. 27, 2020 |