Mealey's (May 26, 2020, 2:26 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A majority of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said May 20 that a lower court erred in dismissing a former employee’s wrongful termination claim as duplicative of sexual harassment and retaliation claims against a Sonic restaurant franchisee and that a jury should have been allowed to consider the claim (Jason Early, et al. v. Keystone Restaurant Group, LLC, et al., Nos. 18-17148 & 19-15463, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 16098)....