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| | 1. | Environmental Whistleblower Statute protected employee who refused to engage in illegal activity and reported it to his supervisor.
Kirk Menard v. Targa Resources, LLC, 2023-CQ-00246 (La. 06/27/2023) [11 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 7
In June 2018 plaintiff began working as an environmental, safety, and health specialist at
defendant's plant in Venice, Louisiana. His job duties included ensur... view full summary | | 2. | Court accepts certified questions regarding Louisiana Environmental Whistleblower Statute.
Kirk Menard v. Targa Resources, LLC, 2023-CQ-000246 (La. 03/28/2023) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 4
The Court granted certification and set a briefing schedule as to the following questions
posed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: (... view full summary | | 3. | Suit by healthcare employees challenging employer's vaccine mandate properly dismissed.
Jason Hayes v. University Health Shreveport, LLC, 2021-CC-01601 (La. 01/07/22) [12 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 30, Issue 1
In late August 2021, defendant, doing business as Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport and LSU
Health-St. Mary Medical Center, LLC, notified all of its employees that they wer... view full summary | | 4. | Second suit by healthcare employees challenging employer's vaccine mandate properly dismissed.
Theresa Nelson v. Ochsner Lafayette General, 2021-CD-01453 (La. 01/07/2022) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 30, Issue 1
Like the plaintiffs in Hayes v. University Health Shreveport, LLC, above, plaintiffs here were
employees of a private healthcare provider who imposed a COVID-1... view full summary | | 5. | Court affirms age discrimination verdict against ULL but reduces lost wages award.
James Robinson v. Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System, 2016-C-2145 (La. 06/29/17) [27 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 25, Issue 7
In 1971 plaintiff was hired at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, now University of
Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), in the campus police department (ULLPD). ... view full summary | | 6. | Court adopts broad definition of "good faith" for Environmental Whistleblower Act.
Eric Borcik v. Crosby Tugs, LLC, 2016-CQ-1372 (La. 05/03/17) [13 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 25, Issue 5
Plaintiff was employed as a deckhand for defendant. He claimed that over a three-year
period the lead captain ordered him to dump waste oil into na... view full summary | | 7. | "Use it or lose it" vacation policy held valid.
Wyatt v. Avoyelles Parish Sch. Bd., 2001-C-3180 (La. 12/4/02) [17 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 10, Issue 12 Plaintiffs were former employees of defendant school board who retired and were not compensated for vacation days that they had not used during their tenure. The board had a "use it or lose it" polic... view full summary |
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