Campbell Campbell Edwards & Conroy obtained a summary judgment ruling in the United States District Court District of Massachusetts in a matter involving an employment discrimination claim.
July 2014
The plaintiff, Misty LaPorte, alleged that her employment with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings was terminated because of her pregnancy and therefore LabCorp violated state and federal anti-discrimination laws including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B.
The court concluded that the plaintiff failed to establish a prima facie case of discrimination because she could not put forth any evidence that LabCorp hired an individual of roughly equivalent qualifications to perform her work after her employment was terminated. The court also concluded that even if the plaintiff could prove a prima facie case of discrimination she failed to demonstrate that the defendants’ stated reasons for terminating her employment – that changes in the marketplace rendered her business development position as obsolete -- were a pretext for unlawful discrimination and found that the defendants’ reason for the plaintiff’s termination were legitimate and non-discriminatory, view full opinion.
James M. Campbell served as counsel for Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings.
