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ELIZABETHTOWN--The Essex County judge-to-be is currently defending a $9 million federal lawsuit against the county in his role as the Essex County attorney.
Richard Meyer, who won the Republican nomination for Essex County Court judge earlier this month, defeating Ronald Briggs who has since dropped out of the race, is seeking summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by a former nursing home aide who says that she suffered mental anguish as the result of allegedly having to prove that she was wearing a bra after a complaint was received that she was not.
Karen Tenney, 48, of New Russia, was employed at the county operated Horace Nye Nursing Home where county policy requires that female employees must wear bras. She contends that a female supervisor was sent to check to see if she was wearing a bra. Tenney's suit says that the supervisor allegedly placed her hand on the back of her sweater in search of a bra clasp, prompting Tenney to pull up her sweater to show that she was wearing a black sports bra. Her action allegedly prompted her co-workers in the dietary unit to display their bras.
She claims that she now needs anti-anxiety medication and that the "actions of those involved constitute sexual harassment under federal and state law". She said that she has been "constructively terminated by the actions of….my employer and the failure to stop this harassment".
Meyer is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit as is the state Civil Service Employees Union. 9-28-05
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