Nursing Manager, Removed from Patient Case, Seeks Supreme Court Review in Discrimination Case

Seyfarth Synopsis: Petitioner to the Supreme Court claims that the Sixth Circuit engaged in a “separate but equal” rationale when it rejected her claim that her employer discriminated against her based on race after the employer allegedly acquiesced to a Caucasian family’s request that no African American caregivers provide care to their family member.

 

In a thought provoking case recently filed before the U.S. Supreme Court, the petitioner, Ms. Jill Crane, asks “whether a race discrimination claim exists under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 where a nursing supervisor has been excluded from providing care or direction concerning care to a patient based solely on her race?” Petition for Writ of Certiorari (Petition), Crane v. Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, No. 15-1206 (March 24, 2016).

 

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