CASE STUDY DISCRIMINATION

LEGAL TERMS, DISCRIMINATION, LAW

In Hospitality Law we were asked to complete an assignment that involves us completing a case study over a specific topic of our choice. I was given the opportunity to choose the topic of discrimination. I conducted some mild research in order to find a certain case that pertained to the topic of discrimination. After completing my research, I found a case that involves litigation against Walgreen Co. in the form of discrimination. The case is titled Raspardo vs. Carlone and I will be providing background information on the case, the main arguments from the parties involved, the laws applied to the case and how they apply and the managerial do’s and don’ts learned from this case.

Raspardo vs. Carlone is a case that was first brought to the courts attention when the New Britain Police Department had hired Plaintiff Gina Spring on in January of 2005 and Plaintiffs Jennifer Raspardo and Needasabrina Russell in August of 2006.Spring resigned from the NBPD on August 21, 2008, when she accepted a position with the City of Torrington Police Department.Russell had to go on Family and Medical Leave Act leave in 2008 and then never returned to active duty, and ended up leaving the NBPD permanently in 2010. Raspardo remained an NBPD officer at the time that this suit was filed. The five defendants in this appeal were at all times supervisory police officers in the NBPD. The plaintiffs’ claims against these defendants are best understood if you divide them into two categories.“First, each of the plaintiffs alleges that John Carlone, a sergeant in the NBPD and their