From Koe v. Univ. Hospitals Health Systems, Inc., decided yesterday by the Sixth Circuit (Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, Judge Alan Norris, and Judge Eugene Siler):
Koe was a medical resident at Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center from June 2019 until he was discharged in April 2021, ostensibly because he lost his privileges to practice at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Koe claimed, however, that he was terminated because he resisted having to participate in unspecified mental health counseling through the hospital's employee assistance program (EAP)…. Koe claimed … that the hospital's use of the EAP in this fashion was abusive, and he filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over this practice. Koe also complained to his supervisors that one of his colleagues subjected him to a hostile work environment by quizzing him about his family's medical history….
The court upheld the district court's ruling that Koe wasn't entitled to proceed pseudonymously:
