HUNTINGTON — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the Huntington Museum of Art alleging a former employee suffered discrimination and a hostile work environment.
U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers ruled that Katherine Cox, the museum's former director of education, failed to state a hostile work environment claim based on age or sex., dismissing all three counts of her complaint.
"The museum now moves to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted," Chambers wrote. "Because the complaint fails to establish a factual basis for any of Cox’s claims, the court grants the museum’s motion."
Cox filed the lawsuit in February. She alleged that beginning in 2017, she had problems with an employee and raised her concerns with the executive director and that in 2018, the employee made allegations against Cox for "inappropriate contact."
Cox claims she later resigned from her employment over the ordeal.
Cox was seeking compensatory and punitive damages. She was represented by Hoyt Glazer of the Law Office of Hoyt Glazer in Huntington.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia case number 3:20-cv-00142