Thomas M. Klepsky v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that subject matter jurisdiction may be raised by the court “at any juncture because a federal court lacks authority to hear a case without subject matter jurisdiction”
• holding that even though two employees had broken rules regarding employee honesty, their circumstances were not sufficiently similar to infer pretext where one employee forged his employer’s signature and the other lied about his job qualifications
• finding that the omission of relevant medical history and the forgery of another employee’s signature were “not sufficiently similar to raise an implication of pretext” “although both involved dishonesty”
• stating that courts may raise subject matter jurisdiction at any juncture because “‘a federal court lacks authority to hear a case without subject matter jurisdiction’”
• finding that the omission of relevant medical history and the forgery of another employee’s signature were “not sufficiently similar to raise an implication of pretext” “although both involved dishonesty”
• finding plaintiff, a union member, could not maintain a Greely claim because he was not an employee at will

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