4th Circuit Asked To Reconsider Best Buy’s Liability For Worker’s Joke

Mealey's (May 5, 2020, 7:26 AM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel’s decision to affirm a trial court’s holding that Best Buy properly responded to a complaint about a co-worker’s inappropriate joke must be reconsidered by the entire court as it is inconsistent with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Vance v. Ball State Univ. and other circuits’ precedent, a Best Buy employee argues in her April 24 petition for rehearing en banc (Erika Bazemore v. Best Buy, No. 18-2196, 4th Cir.)....