I have often said that getting summary judgment in an employment discrimination case in Connecticut state court is hard.
State judges are typically reluctant to grant such motions, and the conventional wisdom among practitioners is that it takes extraordinary facts to get there.
Which is what makes a recent decision worth noting. The court granted
The rules on accommodations just changed for employers — at least in Connecticut and New York (and Vermont too).
The Second Circuit (which covers Connecticut, New York and Vermont), in an important decision released last week, expanded the situations in which an employee can get an accommodation holding that such accommodations may be required even
You don’t need to look for a needle in a haystack to figure out this latest case from the Second Circuit.
But you do need to know what “trypanophobia” is.
Ready? Fear of needles.
That becomes important in a Second Circuit court decision yesterday holding that an employee’s fear of needles prevented that employee from
The Connecticut Appellate Court yesterday released two notable employment law decisions. They won’t become “official” until April 30, 2013, so you have some time to digest them. I’ll cover one today and leave the other for a future post (though if you’re really curious you can read it here.)
To me, the more interesting