Legal Opinion
Ekemezie v. Cvs Pharmacy, Inc.
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided July 21, 2020No. Civil Action No. 2017-0367Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BLESSING EKEMEZIE, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 17-367 (TJK) CVS Rx SERVICES, INC., Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION Blessing Ekemezie is an African-American woman of Ibo ethnicity who worked as a pharmacist for CVS Rx Services, Inc. CVS fired her in September 2015 after it determined that she repeatedly skipped a quality assurance check in its protocol for filling prescriptions. Ekemezie filed this action alleging that CVS’s stated reason for firing her was a pretext for discrimination because of her race, ethnicity, and age, and that…
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