CHARLESTON — A protective order was filed in a complaint alleging the former vice president of ambulatory services at Roane General Hospital was wrongfully terminated from her position.
Mariana G. Massey filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia against Roane General Hospital, Jeffrey B. Hunt and Douglas E. Bentz, alleging they violated the West Virginia Human Rights Act.
Massey claims that on April 8, 2018, she was unlawfully terminated from her employment. She has suffered lost wages, significant aggravation, inconvenience, mental anguish and humiliation. Massey holds Roane General Hospital, Hunt and Bentz responsible because they allegedly subjected her to gender-biased discrimination and a volatile and hostile working environment, and retaliated against her by terminating her employment for exercising her rights.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Dwane L. Tinsley entered an order July 1 stating that if a party or non-party producing information in the civil action or an attorney for a party or non-party has a good faith belief that certain documents or other materials subject to disclosure pursuant to a request or court order, are confidential and should not be disclosed other than in connection with this action and pursuant to this protective order, the party, non-party or attorney shall clearly mark each such document or other material as confidential.
"The individual or entity designating the document or materials as 'Confidential' must take care to limit any such designation to specific documents or materials that qualify for protection under the appropriate standards," the order states. "Mass, indiscriminate or routine designations are prohibited."
The protective order states that if a party or attorney for a party disputes whether or not a document should be marked as confidential, the parties and/or attorneys will attempt to resolve it and, if unsuccessful, the appropriate motion shall be filed.
"No party or attorney or other person subject to this protective order shall distribute, transmit, or otherwise divulge any document or other material which is marked 'Confidential,' or the contents thereof, except in accordance with this protective order," the order states.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks all damages provided by law, attorneys’ fees, costs and any other relief that is just and equitable. She is represented by Maria Hughes and Mark Goldner of Hughes & Goldner.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia case number 2:18-cv-01506