Morrison v. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

1 Citing case

  1. McNeil v. Comhar, Inc.

    CIVIL ACTION No. 15-4959 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 16, 2016)   Cited 2 times
    Holding that support professional's verbal abuse of patients was a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for firing her

    However, courts have frequently granted summary judgment for employers after concluding that plaintiffs' comparators were not similarly situated as a matter of law. See, e.g., Morrison v. Thomas Jefferson Univ. Hosp., Civ. A. No. 10-4365, 2011 WL 4018252, at *5 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 8, 2011); Thomas v. City of Philadelphia., Civ. A. No. 12-3250, 2013 WL 5429230, at *7 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 30, 2013); Lucchesi v. Day & Zimmerman, Grp., Civ. A. No. 10-4164, 2012 WL 5829790, at *7 (E.D. Pa. Nov. 16, 2012). Here, the Court holds that accidentally administering the wrong medication to a patient is not sufficiently similar to intentionally abusing a patient, and therefore Clampffer is not a valid comparator upon which to base a discrimination claim.