Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Walgreen Co.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided April 11, 2014No. Case No. 11-cv-04470-WHOPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Re: Dkt. No. 66
ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
WILLIAM H. ORRICK, United States District Judge
In the midst of a hypoglycemic attack, Walgreens’s employee Josephina Hernandez grabbed a $1.37 bag of potato chips from the store shelf to stabilize her condition. Walgreens fired her for violating its anti-grazing policy. I must decide if there are material questions of fact for the jury on whether Walgreens is entitled to enforce its uniformly-applied policy against an employee whose alleged misconduct was caused by her disability. There are numerous material issues in dispute and I DENY…
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