September 11, 2014
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched a Fourth Circuit challenge on Thursday to a North Carolina federal court's decision to throw out a lawsuit accusing Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP of firing a worker after treatment for breast cancer left her disabled.
June 27, 2014
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP on Thursday escaped a suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over the firm's firing of an assistant who couldn't lift heavy items because of a cancer treatment-related disability, with a North Carolina federal judge finding the ex-employee was unable to perform essential functions of her job.
April 29, 2014
A North Carolina federal judge on Tuesday signed off on a magistrate judge's recommendation that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shell out $22,900 in sanctions over evidence destroyed in its disability discrimination suit against Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP.
April 08, 2014
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday asked a North Carolina federal judge to lower the fees a magistrate judge ordered the agency to pay as a sanction for the destruction of evidence by a worker the agency claims Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP unlawfully axed after cancer left her disabled.
March 25, 2014
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP should get $22,900 in sanctions stemming from the destruction of evidence in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disability bias suit by an allegedly unlawfully fired former worker, a North Carolina magistrate judge said Monday.
March 03, 2014
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP said Friday it is seeking a reasonable sum from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to cover fees the agency was ordered to pay as a sanction for the destruction of evidence by a worker the agency claims the firm unlawfully axed.
February 19, 2014
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday that Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP is seeking too high a sum to cover fees the agency was ordered to pay as a sanction for the destruction of evidence by a worker the agency claims the firm unlawfully axed.
January 30, 2014
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP asked a North Carolina federal judge Thursday to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing the firm of firing an office assistant after cancer left her disabled, claiming the worker couldn't perform her job's essential functions.
November 20, 2013
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a North Carolina federal court Friday to deny Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP's bid for sanctions over evidence discarded by the ex-worker behind a disability bias case, claiming that evidence would have helped — not hurt — the agency's case.
October 23, 2013
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP asked a North Carolina federal court Tuesday to sanction the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claiming it failed to preserve "critical evidence" destroyed by an ex-worker the firm allegedly fired after cancer treatment left her disabled.