RALEIGH (AP) A supervisor used a racial slur to describe a Muslim worker and suggested he only converted to Islam to keep his beard, according to a discrimination complaint filed by a civil rights group against a North Carolina state ...

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Cox v. Duke Energy Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-204-17, 23 pp.) (Paul Niemeyer, J.) 16-6625; Nov. 20, 2017; USDC at Florence, S.C. (Bruce Hendricks, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The plaintiff-glider pilot, who flew near a nuclear power plant, waived his false arrest claim ...

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Braswell v. Medina (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-261-17, 28 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from Nash County Superior Court (Allen Baddour, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though a grand jury indicted plaintiff for obtaining property by false pretenses, since the complaint ...

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Conservatives unhappy with the work of a civil rights center at the University of North Carolina say a ban on litigation is meant to spare legal clinics while applying only to academic centers. A revised version of the ban makes ...

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Tahir v. Sessions (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-023-17, 10 pp.) (James Dever III, C.J.) 5:16-cv-00781; E.D.N.C. Holding: Plaintiff’s allegation that his termination by the FBI was harsher than usual punishment does not equal a plausible allegation that the FBI had failed ...

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Triangle Catering, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-018-17, 25 pp.) (Louise Flanagan, J.) 5:15-cv-00016; E.D.N.C. Holding: Where defendant’s termination of employee Michael Reddick included references to his wearing of a hat or “Rastafarian crown,” plaintiff has ...

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Felton v. Gates County Board of Education (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-009-17, 13 pp.) (W. Earl Britt, S.J.) 2:15-cv-00020; E.D.N.C. Holding: Defendant’s human resources director (1) knew that plaintiff had filed an EEOC complaint against a neighboring school system and (2) ...

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Woods v. Salem Electric Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 003-002-17, 19 pp.) (Loretta Biggs, J.) 1:15-cv-00525; M.D.N.C. Holding: According to the African-American plaintiff, his white supervisor responded to a question by saying he was going to get a noose and tighten ...

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Cooper v. Smithfield Packing Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-035-16, 14 pp.) (James Fox, S.J.) 7:13-cv-00145; E.D.N.C. Holding: Assuming plaintiff was – as she alleges – being sexually harassed from 2007 to 2011, she actively concealed the harassment from the defendant-employer ...

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McKissick-Melton v. North Carolina Central University (Lawyers Weekly No. 003-021-16, 9 pp.) (Catherine Eagles, J.) 1:16-cv-00605; M.D.N.C. Holding: Plaintiff alleges that she complained to the defendant-university’s chancellor about discrimination by the dean of the university’s College of Arts and Sciences, ...

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