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Third Circuit: Female Jail Guard Loses Discrimination, Wrongful Termination Case
Loaded on June 5, 2019
by David M. Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2019, page 53
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Guards/Staff,
Employee Litigation.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
by David M. Reutter
On December 31, 2018, in an unpublished ruling, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a summary judgment order in a lawsuit that alleged employment discrimination. The appellate court found that officials at Pennsylvania’s Franklin County Jail (FCJ) had properly terminated the plaintiff, a ...
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