The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that Minnesota’s peer review immunity statute barred a surgeon’s defamation and tortious interference claims against his former employer and colleagues. In the case, the Eighth Circuit affirmed ...
In one of our most popular pieces (Just. Stop. Talking) we wrote about how even justifiable employment actions can be undermined by improvident or improper remarks about an employee’s protected classification. Too bad the manager ...
William Shakespeare asked in Romeo and Juliet: “What’s in a name?” One fellow answered that question by petitioning a Federal District Court in New York to allow him to sue his ex-employer under his former ...
Here’s an interesting twist – a hospital employer being sued by a former executive for a whistleblower claim is now suing that whistleblower for failing to report the unlawful conduct internally. Louis Longo was fired ...
Employers often complain that they feel at risk of being sued even if they have done absolutely nothing wrong. Unfortunately, a recent Minnesota case seems to support their lament. Everett Bad Wound worked for the ...
Even though decisions from other jurisdictions do not apply to Minnesota employers, those rulings are important. If a case arises in Minnesota for which there is no judicial precedent, our judges often will look to decisions in other ...
As 2017 comes to a close, let’s look back on five significant decisions from the Minnesota courts: Court Delivered Wrong Analysis of Pregnancy Discrimination We wrote this year in Employer Needn’t Be Angry About Pregnancy to Discriminate Against ...
When Will Rogers advised “Never miss a good chance to shut up”, he probably was talking to the hiring manger in a recent age discrimination case. Frank Branham applied for a vacant maintenance worker position at ...
