Third Circuit Rules That Employees Cannot Sue Employers for Discrimination Based on Marijuana Use
By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/24
On December 9, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (“CREAMMA”) does not provide workers with a private right of action for employment discrimination based on marijuana consumption. In so doing, the split 2-1 panel affirmed the District Court of New Jersey’s dismissal of a Wal-Mart applicant’s putative class action lawsuit in Zanetich v. Walmart Stores East Inc. et al. The named...
By: Saul Ewing LLP