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Associated PressWASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a former hospital lab technician who says his service in the U.S. Army Reserve led to his dismissal.
The decision, based on a federal law intended to prevent job discrimination against members of the military, is the first in which the court has ruled that an employer can be held liable for the discriminatory acts of supervisors who do not make final employment decisions.
The justices voted 8-0 to throw out a federal appeals court ruling in favor of Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Ill. Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion for the court ordered the appeals court to reconsider the case of Vincent Staub, an angiography technician.
A jury awarded Staub $57,640 in damages after it found he was fired because of his military service. Staub was fired in 2004 after 15 years at the hospital. He has been in the Reserves since 1984 and was called to active duty in 2003 to train U.S. soldiers in the Iraq war to set up a radiology unit in a field hospital.
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