Judge Overstepped Authority <\/strong><\/h2>\nA 2015 appellate ruling overturned that judgment, finding that some women had specifically been targeted for weight loss due to their gender.<\/p>\n
But Johnson subsequently allowed lawyers for the Borgata to renew a motion for summary judgment, which enabled him to dismiss the case a second time.<\/p>\n
The appellate court ruled Monday that Johnson — who has since retired — had no authority to do so.<\/p>\n
The court on Monday noted several specific cases, such a server who was suspended from work despite her claim that her weight gain was a side effect of post-surgery medication, and one who put on weight after being prescribed asthma medication after the birth of her child.<\/p>\n
One server claimed a Borgata executive had suggested women who had children should not come back to work \u201cbecause they get fat.”<\/p>\n
“We’re looking forward to the trial that should have happened a long time ago,” a lawyer for the Babes, Robert D. Herman, told The Courier Post<\/em>. “This is justice delayed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cBorgata Babes\u201d will have their day in court, a New Jersey appeals panel ruled on Monday, as first reported by The Courier Post. A group of Borgata beverage servers who sued their employee 11 years ago for gender discrimination — because they were told that if they amassed more than seven percent of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":105440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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