An Albany law firm has successfully defended a local hospital in a discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of an employee’s claims, an apparently rare win against the federal agency.

In a trial that ended Nov. 2 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia before Judge Leslie Gardner, the jury found in favor of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany regarding its discharge of Wendy Kelley, a medical records analyst who claimed she couldn’t work on weekends because doing so would worsen her existing anxiety problems.

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