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FedEx Loses Bid To Toss $1.2M Discrimination Suit

Law360, New York (August 28, 2009) -- FedEx Ground Packaging System Inc. remains on the hook for over $1.2 million after a federal appeals court upheld a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff, who claimed the company had illegally forced her to take disability leave.

A three-judge panel of the the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday affirmed that the company had violated the West Virginia Human Rights Act in its...

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