Legal Opinion

Jones v. Amerihealth Caritas

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided March 6, 2015No. Civil Action No. 14-4689PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM

KEARNEY, District Judge.

In this employment race and sex discrimination, harassment and retaliation case, the employer and supervisor defendants raise a wide variety of exhaustion and merits arguments seeking to dismiss some or all of the claims in the employee’s First Amended Complaint (“FAC”). Several issues on informal complaints as the basis for a retaliation claim and the availability of punitive or “pain and suffering” damages under plead claims have not yet been addressed by our Court of Appeals. At this motion to dismiss preliminary stage, and following the weight of…

2Cases cited48 opinions

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  4. Smith v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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