Greedy Trial Lawyer
Favoritism Gaining Favor
Category: Torts For Our Time
Lawsuits claiming discrimination require that the claimants be part of a limited class of people and suffer because of that status. For example, someone who is black might claim that his boss treated him poorly because he is black. Greedy trial lawyers have always felt there had to be a better way, a way to enlarge the number of potential discrimination cases. From PhillyBurbs.com comes the brilliant new path. A lawsuit claims that the boss favored Republican Catholics and, therefore, treated him poorly. This means that everyone who is not a Republican Catholic has a potential claim.
My only criticism of the theory of favoritism alleged in the lawsuit is that it missed an opportunity to expand on the number of employee-victims by alleging that the boss favored Elderly Disabled Republican Catholics. This approach would have permitted many of the Republican Catholics to also claim victim status.
Lawsuit charges favoritismBy MELISSA MILEWSKI
The IntelligencerA county maintenance employee filed a federal lawsuit against Montgomery County, claiming its parks department gives preferential treatment to Roman Catholics and Republicans.
Donald L. Wardle, a Berks County resident who works in the maintenance department at Green Lane Park, filed a suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Montgomery County and parks department director Ronald Ahlbrandt.
The suit claims that county employees spent nearly a day refurbishing barrels into donation buckets that were used at a fund-raiser for a Catholic church, and Green Lane Park management used more than $300 in taxpayer dollars to buy a plaque commemorating President Ronald Reagan.
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