{"id":48470,"date":"2014-05-22T10:23:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48470"},"modified":"2014-05-22T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:23:54","slug":"us-asks-for-dismissal-in-king-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48470","title":{"rendered":"US asks for dismissal in King lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Teresa<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The Army Times<\/a> reports that the US Attorney, Terri Hearn Bailey, involved in the gender and racial discrimination lawsuit brought by former sergeant major Theresa King, who had been the commandant of Drill Sergeant school at Fort Jackson, has asked that the lawsuit be dropped;<\/p>\n

Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King\u2019s lawsuit, filed in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, argues she was improperly suspended by her supervisors, Command Sgt. Maj. John Calpena, and Maj. Gen. Richard Longo. They and Robert Cone, the former commander of Training and Doctrine Command, are named in the suit, filed on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorney Terri Hearn Bailey on May 2 filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that claims based on allegations of sex discrimination and improper termination of military employment are barred under the Feres doctrine. The Feres doctrine refers to the 1950 Supreme Court ruling that protects the government from active-duty members who are claiming damages for actions related to military service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, the former sergeant major is upset because her superiors pointed out that, despite a decade of war, she had managed to avoid deployments. She was charged with training combat veterans to train future combat veterans without the benefit of being a combat veteran. And somehow that’s being racist.<\/p>\n

King\u2019s 30-page lawsuit alleges her otherwise stellar career was derailed by her superiors. She was investigated for poor leadership, and later cleared of wrongdoing, but not immediately reinstated as commandant.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

King claims her civil rights were violated in a variety of ways, including discrimination, retaliation and through a hostile work environment. She also claims Longo\u2019s failure to provide a reason for her suspension \u201ccreated a vacuum into which defamatory statements about CSM King were published.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, she did attain the highest enlisted rank and secured a prestigious job. The Army made a big deal of her assignment and she even ended up on Oprah. All of that without doing what most of the Army did – deploy to fight our wars. Sounds pretty hostile, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Personally, I think she’s bluffing and hopes the Army will settle, but if they don’t, she’s going to force their hand and make them reveal the details of their investigation into her alleged malfeasance and she won’t like that. The Army doesn’t want to do that, but she’s making them and neither King nor the Army will like the outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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