Toth v. Bethel Township

MEMORANDUM

Gerald Austin McHugh, United States District Judge

This case involves a suburban township police officer who returned from maternity leave only to discover that she no longer had a job. Two years after becoming a Bethel Township police officer, Heather Toth became pregnant. After initially being denied her request for light duty, she took leave from work. Toth alleges that she did so based entirely on the assurance of her boss, Chief Tom Worrilow, that, she would be allowed to come back once she gave birth and was ready. But in fact, when Toth asked to come back, her job was gone,…