Litigation
Sep. 16, 2014
Court upholds fitness-for-duty exam demand
A court recently upheld a jury verdict against a professor claiming that his employer, a university, violated the state Fair Employment and Housing Act. By Ronald W. Novotny
On Sept. 2, the 1st District Court of Appeal affirmed a verdict against a college math professor who sued his employer for ordering him to undergo a fitness-for-duty examination, or FFD, based on behavior that his colleagues considered erratic and threatening in nature. The court also rebuffed the efforts of the professor's attorneys to interject themselves into the workplace dispute by placing conditions on the FFD. It accordingly uphel...
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