Lockhart v. Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation

  1. June 30, 2023

    Ill. Health System Gets Ex-Worker's Gender Bias Suit Tossed

    An Illinois health care system on Friday defeated a former ultrasound technician's suit claiming he was unlawfully fired because of his gender after female patients complained of inappropriate touching, with a federal judge ruling he failed to show a female employee facing similar accusations wouldn't have been terminated.

  2. December 15, 2022

    Health System Seeks to End Ex-Worker's Gender Bias Suit

    A regional health care system urged an Illinois federal judge to throw out an ex-ultrasound technician's suit alleging he was wrongfully fired after a female patient accused him of inappropriately touching her, arguing he never proved he was treated differently from female colleagues.

  3. October 25, 2022

    Ex-Worker Says Health System Fired Him Over Gender

    A male ex-ultrasound technician for a regional health care system sued his former employer in Illinois federal court on Tuesday accusing the system of firing him because he is male after a female patient complained that he inappropriately touched her.