Elsevier, Parent Company Exit Ex-Worker’s Greenwashing Suit

A former worker at Cell Press Inc., who accused it and his ex-employer’s parent companies Elsevier Inc. and RELX PLC of greenwashing, missed a key filing window before bringing disability discrimination claims to court, a federal judge said.

Kip Lyall didn’t file a timely Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination charge within the 300-day window of being notified of his firing, Judge Patti B. Saris said in siding with the companies’ argument of when “HR unambiguously notified him that he was being terminated.” The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts judge dismissed Lyall’s federal claims with finality Oct. 17 and ...