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Family squabble leads to “Facebook firing,” and to dismissal of plaintiff’s case.

By Maria Danaher on November 4, 2013
Posted in Gender discrimination

The line of “Facebook firing” cases is growing longer every month. In October, the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld summary judgment in an unpublished opinion in which an individual claimed gender discrimination after he was fired from his job as a daycare center worker. According to the employer, the firing was based on…

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