Legal Opinion

Clark-Williams v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided March 25, 2017No. Civil Action No. 2014-0099PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION

RANDOLPH D. MOSS, United States District Judge

Plaintiff Ishmael Clark-Williams lost his job as a bus driver for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”). He filed a grievance with his union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 (“Local 689”), which negotiated a Settlement Agreement with WMATA on his behalf. The Settlement Agreement provided that Clark-Williams would be reinstated—but only if he passed a background check under WMATA’s new Background Screening Policy. Clark-Williams informed Local 689 that he had an existing criminal record (which he had…

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