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Father wins a family by fighting his firing
RALEIGH -- Jim Dotson spent the past six years seeking the truth, not only from his employer who he charged wrongly fired him, but for himself and his family. In October, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his former employer's appeal, handing Dotson a victory even as it cost him his ...
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"Father wins a family by fighting his firing"
How Appealing — "Father wins a family by fighting his firing": Today's edition of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina contains an article that begins, "Jim Dotson spent the past six years seeking the truth, not only from his employer who he charged wrongly fired him, but for himself and his family. In October, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his former employer's appeal, handing Dotson a victory even as it cost him his career, his home and most of his life savings. Once a fast-rising division salesman for Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company based in New York, ...

Friday Round-up
SCOTUSblog — ... Looking back at October’s orders, The Raleigh News and Observer has a story on a lawsuit filed by former Pfizer employee Jim Dotson, who was fired after adopting a chronically ill baby from a Russian orphanage, to which he donated 24 rounds of a pediatric antibiotic.  Dotson sued Pfizer under the Family and Medical Leave Act, and in October the Supreme Court let stand a Fourth Circuit ruling in his favor. ...

Monday Round-up: Afternoon Edition
SCOTUSblog — ... Looking back at October’s orders, The Raleigh News and Observer has a story on a lawsuit filed by former Pfizer employee Jim Dotson, who was fired after adopting a chronically ill baby from a Russian orphanage, to which he donated 24 rounds of a pediatric antibiotic.  Dotson sued Pfizer under the Family and Medical Leave Act, and in October the Supreme Court let stand a Fourth Circuit ruling in his favor. ...

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