Shugars v. Hamilton

How courts have described this case

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

• dismissing claim because, among other reasons, “the Complaint [did] not identify any particular employee who used work computers to access ‘adult/sexually explicit’ material”
• declining to apply executive order tolling state statutes of limitation where Congress had enacted federal statute of limitations
• applying Chardon to hold that the limitations period for a False Claims Act retaliation claim was triggered when plaintiff was notified of his termination
• declining to apply New York’s tolling of statutes of limitations during Hurricane Sandy in a False Claims Act case, due to federal statute of limitations
• on March 31, 2014, stating “the Second Circuit has held that ‘homosexuals compose a class that is . . . quasi-suspect,’” and that allegations of discrimination involving this class are “subject to heightened scrutiny.”
• “Additionally, even if the refusal to pay him was retaliatory, this allegation would not state an FCA retaliation claim because, as plead in the Complaint, it occurred after Plaintiff was terminated.” (citing 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)(1)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).