Seattle, WA
Employment and labor Lawyer at Seattle, WA
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor
OUTCOME: Summary Judgment Dismissal; upheld on appeal
Plaintiff alleged defamation, outrage, negligent infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, false light and deliberate injury arising out of plaintiff’s termination. The court granted summ ... ary judgment dismissal on all claims. The Court of Appeals upheld this decision.
OUTCOME: Summary Judgment Dismissal
In a second suit against the same defendants, plaintiff sued her church-employer, a regional governing body and the denomination. Laurie represented the latter two defendants. Laurie first moved for ... partial summary judgment on plaintiff’s public policy and negligent supervision claims. Granting the motion, the court found that there is no cause of action for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy against a non-employer and found that the ministerial exception to the First Amendment prevented the court’s interference on the negligent supervision claim. Laurie then moved to dismiss the newly asserted state sexual harassment claim arguing the issue was res judicata as plaintiff had earlier raised a Title VII sexual harassment claim in an earlier suit (which was dismissed). The court granted this motion resulting in a dismissal of the regional and national governing bodies.
OUTCOME: Affirmed dimissal of the Title VII claims
Plaintiff sued her church-employer, a regional governing body and the denomination alleging sexual harassment in violation of Title VII. Laurie represented the latter two defendants. Laurie moved for ... summary judgment arguing that plaintiff failed to file a timely charge of discrimination within 180-days. The court agreed that the 180-day deadline and not the 300-day deadline applied because the Washington Commission did not have subject matter jurisdiction over charges against religious organizations. The Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal.
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