Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 23, 2021No. Civil Action No. 2019-3710Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ERNESTO RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 19-3710 (JEB) WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION Plaintiff Ernesto Rodriguez is a successful boxing coach. The problem, according to his former employer, Defendant Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, is that he should not have been coaching while out on workers’-compensation leave. When WMATA discharged him, pointing to this work and his untruthfulness about it in an administrative investigation, Rodriguez sued. He alleges that this…
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