Pippin v. Boulevard Motel Corp., No. 15-2011 (1st Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CasePlaintiffs, former employees of the Boulevard Motel Corporation, filed separate complaints alleging that Boulevard filed them in violation of the Maine Human Rights Act (MHRA) and the Maine Whistleblowers’ Protection Act (MWPA). The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Boulevard, concluding that a “job duties exception” applied under both the MWPA and the MHRA. After Plaintiffs filed their appeals, the First Circuit issued a decision in Harrison v. Granite Bay Care, Inc., in which the Court held that no “broad-based job duties exception” applied under the MWPA. The First Circuit reversed after both parties conceded that no “job duties exception” exists under either the MWPA or, by implication, the MHRA, holding that no other grounds supported the order granting summary judgment.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on September 23, 2016.
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