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GERTRUDE CRISP v. SCIOTO AMBULANCE DISTRICT

Posted by: David Lazar on Jul 17, 2026

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ON BRIEF: Matthew J. Clark, GREGORY, MOORE, BROOKS, CLARK & HELTON, P.C., Detroit, Michigan, for Appellant.

Attorneys 2: ON BRIEF: Katherine L. Barbiere, SCHROEDER, MAUNDRELL, BARBIERE & POWERS, Mason, Ohio, for Appellee.

Judge(s): SUTTON, Chief Judge; McKEAGUE and BUSH, Circuit Judges

Court Appealed: United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio at Cincinnati

JOHN K. BUSH, Circuit Judge. According to Gertrude Crisp, an emergency medical technician, “the inmates run[] the insane asylum” at her former workplace, the Scioto Ambulance District. R. 19, Crisp Dep., PageID 201. Part of the craziness, Crisp claims, is a time when another EMT at Scioto (Joshua Gullett) groped her and tried to stuff her into a trash can while on the job. When Crisp complained, a supervisor separated them and required that they never work the same shift, but Gullett faced no other repercussions. Crisp pursued no legal redress against Gullett or Scioto at that time. Instead, Crisp waited several years to respond, and when she did, it was in her own way crazy. One day, she recalled that there were allegedly pornographic images of Gullett and his wife online. While at work, she showed those images to several EMTs. Scioto fired Crisp for doing that, and Crisp sued, asserting that the firing was retaliatory under state and federal anti- discrimination law. The district court disagreed, and so do we. If Crisp had a legal claim based on Gullett’s alleged misconduct, she should have pursued it. Gullett’s alleged wrongs at work did not give Crisp the right to show alleged pornography while on the job. The district court’s grant of summary judgment to Scioto is AFFIRMED.

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