A U.S. appeals court revived a woman’s Americans with Disabilities Act claim that she was fired from a Hagerstown call center after requesting a reduced work schedule.

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A Prince George’s County town illegally discriminated against a Palestinian-American towing company owner in awarding a towing contract, Maryland’s top court says.

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Maryland’s top court will consider whether a Prince George’s County town illegally discriminated against a Palestinian-American towing company owner in awarding a towing contract. The Court of Appeals on Wednesday agreed to hear Riverdale Park’s appeal of a lower court’s ...

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A fired customer service agent’s discrimination lawsuit against a Bethesda high-tech security products company might have been headed to trial if the black employee had sufficiently alleged that a supervisor’s belated Google search of a past gun incident was a ...

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M&T Bank violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide the reasonable accommodation of reassignment for a Baltimore branch manager after she took short-term disability leave during her complicated pregnancy, a federal judge has ruled. But U.S. District ...

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A federal judge has permitted a woman to pursue a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against Baltimore-based MET Laboratories Inc., saying a jury question exists as to whether the company validly fired her for lying on her time reports or illegally terminated ...

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