
MOODK Attorneys Noreen Kemether, Esquire and Ana Ciobanescu, Esquire obtained dismissal of a lawsuit filed in the U.S.D.C. for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Plaintiff alleged she was discriminated against due to her religion in violation of Title VII when she was terminated as a result of posting on her private Facebook page a derogatory and offensive meme. Plaintiff was the Club Manager and only paid employee of the local organization and claimed she was a joint employee of the national organization. The court ruled, on a motion to dismiss after limited discovery on jurisdiction, that the local organization was not subject to Title VII because it had fewer than 15 employees and that Plaintiff was not jointly employed by the national organization.
