Today, the Supreme Court decided to let lower courts decide the admissibility of testimony by employees other
than the plaintiff regarding workplace discrimination, also known as «me too» evidence, in discrimination cases.
Not exact matches
Having
regard to the fact that the respondent is older
than Ms. Sharma, that he has no realistic possibility of obtaining similar employment and that he had a longer tenure of service
than Ms. Sharma, but considerably less
than the
plaintiff in Di Tomaso v. Crown Metal Manufacturing Packaging Canada LP, 2010 O.J. No. 4414, we conclude that an appropriate notice period is 18 months.
Another significant and surprising finding with
regard to damages to corporations is that in the 2003 - 13 data, punitive damages were awarded to corporations much more often, and in much higher amounts,
than to human
plaintiffs.
Instead of analyzing whether California has jurisdiction over the product liability situation, in general, the high court decides that the determination
regarding whether California has jurisdiction over a suit against a particular defendant must be made on a
plaintiff by
plaintiff basis when «specific jurisdiction» rather
than «general jurisdiction» is involved.
The new statute enacted in SB 735 does not go into depth
regarding a
plaintiff's burden to prove that the proposed net worth discovery methods would be «more
than likely to succeed.»
The question
regarding the statute of limitation involved whether the
plaintiff learned of his injuries more
than two years before he added BASF to the lawsuit.
Regarding the feeder driver position, the majority notes that Blood's tentative notation that Faidley was capable of performing the job was only «a preliminary subjective opinion, unsupported by objective evidence, not materially different
than the employee's subjective assessment that was insufficient to create a material dispute with his physician's restrictions...,» and unable to overcome the substantial objective evidence of the
plaintiff's medical restrictions.
In the present case, the position taken by the Bank
regarding termination for cause was not only aggressive, it was done for no other reason
than to make the
Plaintiffs» case more difficult
than it should have been.
Perhaps most importantly in this
regard, we conclude that
plaintiffs have more
than met their burden of establishing a genuine issue of material fact as to Paladin's intent, even assuming that the First Amendment erects a heightened standard from that required under Maryland state law.