5th Circuit Reinstates Former Hospital Worker’s Retaliation Case

Mealey's (February 19, 2020, 11:21 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A hospital employee fired after the hospital was privatized and underwent a reorganization may proceed with her retaliation case as the district court failed to properly analyze most of her claims and misstated her burden of proof, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb. 14 in a per curiam opinion (Patricia G. Williams v. B R F H H Shreveport, L.L.C., et al., No. 19-30124, 5th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 4894)....