Payne v. US Airways, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that to give effect to legislative intent, “we start with the language of the statute and read it according to its plain and ordinary meaning”
• stating that “the VFEPA, which is patterned on Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act protecting against employment discrimination ..., is often guided by the federal courts’ interpretations of Title VII”
• noting the remedial purpose of VFEPA is “to deter and eradiate discrimination in [the state]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).