{"id":528,"date":"2024-05-01T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T09:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/maine-court-finds-employer-not-liable-for-employees-racist-comments\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T09:17:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T09:17:19","slug":"maine-court-finds-employer-not-liable-for-employees-racist-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/maine-court-finds-employer-not-liable-for-employees-racist-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Court Finds Employer Not Liable for Employee&#8217;s Racist Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The Maine Supreme Judicial Court unanimously agreed Thursday that the management company of a Portland McDonald\u2019s franchise is not vicariously liable under the state\u2019s Human Rights Act after one of its employees displayed discriminatory behavior toward a customer.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany Vargas and Erika Acevedo challenged\u00a0a Cumberland County Superior Court trial judgment in favor of the McDonald\u2019s franchisee, Riverbend Management, which was found not liable for the conduct of its employee, Andrew Mosely, who angrily cursed at and referred to Vargas and her passenger with an offensive racial slur in August 2020. Vargas interacted with Mosely at the drive-thru window before he went outside to deliver another customer\u2019s order. When he was walking back to the restaurant, the second interaction between Vargas and Mosley occurred, ensuing the slew of foul language,\u00a0according to <a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/292\/181296\/24me027.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the court\u2019s opinion.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine Supreme Judicial Court unanimously agreed Thursday that the management company of a Portland McDonald\u2019s franchise is not vicariously liable under the state\u2019s Human Rights Act after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[678,143,676,371,674,675,673,677],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-comments","tag-court","tag-employees","tag-employer","tag-finds","tag-liable","tag-maine","tag-racist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}