Lundy v. Cole Vision Corp.

By Judge Melvin R. Hughes, Jr.

The defendants’ demurrer to plaintiff’s motion for judgment is before the court for decision. The plaintiff alleges she was caused to resign her employment with defendant, her former employer, after a series of acts by her supervisor amounting to racial discrimination in the workplace. She claims that the conditions became intolerable causing her to quit.

Defendants’ demurrer raises the question of the pleading’s legal sufficiency on basically two grounds: (1) the 1995 amendments to the Virginia Human Rights Act, § 2.1-725 et seq. eliminated any cause of action…