{"id":14586,"date":"2012-09-19T18:15:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T01:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=14586"},"modified":"2012-09-19T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T01:15:22","slug":"news-brief-religious-discrimination-lawsuit-against-lewis-county-dismissed-by-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=14586","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Religious discrimination lawsuit against Lewis County dismissed by judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit filed by a former Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center employee who contended he was fired because of his religion has been dismissed by the court.<\/p>\n<p>A summary judgement was issued today by the judge in the case of Geoff Nelson of Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson and his attorney said he was ordered not to bring a Bible to work, &#8220;harassed&#8221; for being Christian and treated differently repeatedly because of his beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s decision means, in lay person&#8217;s terms, the court decided Nelson had no basis to sue the county, according to Lewis County RIsk Manager Paulette Young.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson has 30 days in which to appeal, if he chooses.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>For background, read &#8220;Christianity at work: Rochester man seeks $3 million in suit against Lewis County&#8221; from Friday April 6, 2012, <a title=\"&quot;Christianity at work: Rochester man seeks $3 million in suit against Lewis County&quot; from Friday April 6, 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=11848\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter The lawsuit filed by a former Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center employee who contended he was fired because of his religion has been dismissed by the court. A summary judgement was issued today by the judge in the case of Geoff Nelson of Rochester. Nelson and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-14586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14589,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586\/revisions\/14589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}