United States Federal Circuit

In a suit brought by thirty-five current and former nurse practitioners employed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System alleging that, as predominantly female NPs, they are paid at a lower rate than the predominantly male physician assistants performing jobs of equal skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions, judgment granting the US summary judgment that plaintiffs do not qualify for coverage under the Equal Pay Act is affirmed as plaintiffs failed to make a prima facie case of an Equal Pay Act violation as they failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact that the pay differential between NPs and PAs is based on sex.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/14/2009
• Published 12/14/2009

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Court

• United States Federal Circuit

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