Not every case that comes out from the Connecticut Appellate Court makes headlines.
Take the case of Walker v. Department of Children & Families, a new case that will be officially released next week (download here).
It is a fairly ordinary discrimination case — albeit a rare one where the employer has been successful on a motion for summary judgment. It is also a textbook example of how slow the legal system can be, with the court decision coming eight years after the employee was fired.
The plaintiff was hired as a social worker in June 2004 and was notified that he needed to successfully complete a “ten month working west period.” His first performance review, about 10 weeks in, was generally favorable. By December, though, he was transferred to a new unit and was required to prepare documents to be filed in court and attend court proceedings.Continue Reading Appellate Court Upholds Summary Judgment for Employer
se at some point or another, particularly as a parent or child: "But So-and-so Is Doing the Same Thing!" 
with dozens of e-mail messages and hundreds of posts to read on the RSS feeds. And, when I saw that the U.S. Supreme Court decided an employment law case, my brain got excited for a brief moment (and
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(Even the name of the case sounds generic.) Moreover, when you read the facts, the case doesn’t scream "precedent". The Smith case, however, reinforces the notion that consistently applied disciplinary policies are
A new case released this afternoon from the United States District Court illustrates that. In