On October 1, 2009 the Maine Human Rights Commission concluded an investigation which found that there were reasonable grounds to believe that an employee, April Vannah, was terminated from her job because of her disability by her employers New England Vending, Inc., World Wide Personnel Services, of Maine, Inc. and…
Magistrate Judge Margaret Kravchuk of the United States District Court for the District of Maine has issued a recommended decision denying Fairpoint Communications’ Motion for Summary Judgment and Motion to Exclude the treatment providers of Plaintiff Cathleen Adams from testifying as experts at trial. This brings the case one step…
On August 11, 2009, in Sensing v. Outback Steakhouse, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled against Outback Steakhouse in a disability discrimination case. (The First Circuit Court of Appeals is a federal appeals court that hears cases from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico).…