Giles v. Oakdale Healthcare Systems, LLC

_JjIn this matter, the drug-testing specimen collector, Carpenter, admittedly failed to follow Oakdale’s policies for collecting samples. Plaintiff, Giles, an assistant manager for Wal-Mart, suffered adverse employment consequences because her sample tested positive for proscribed substances. Carpenter and Oakdale filed a motion for summary judgment in which they argued that the policy breach had nothing to do with Giles’s employment setbacks, because the violation of policy did not cause Giles’s sample to test positive for cocaine. In support of the motion, Carpenter testified by deposition…