By John Alan Doran Beauty turned ugly in the State of Iowa last week when the Iowa Supreme Court upheld the firing of a woman because she was simply too irresistible to the employer’s owner. This is the same conclusion the Iowa Supreme Court reached several months ago, when it first considered the case. The […]
Category: Wacky Cases
No Evident Bias: Arbitrator Received Campaign Funds from Both Sides.
By Bill Wright When a former employee lost his discrimination claim in arbitration, he went to court to have the decision set aside. Among the grounds he cited: two years earlier the arbitrator had run for seat on the state supreme court and a minority owner of the employer had contributed $4,500 to the arbitrator’s […]
Jurassic Firing Not Unlawful
By John Alan Doran Nancy Barnette was a route driver for FedEx. By all reasonable accounts, Barnette smashed her delivery truck into a gate leading into a subdivision. The accident caused her passenger-side window to crack and it eventually caved in. Barnette, assisted by a Good Samaritan landscaper (who later testified against Barnette), cleaned up […]