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According to Flores lawsuit, at no point did [Flores] bring, or attempt to bring, contraband into Augusta Correctional Center .
It alleges that her employment was terminated because she was a menstruating female utilizing a feminine hygiene product when she arrived to work .
The matter, which occurred in December 2019, is now before the courts.
The Department of Corrections has asked a judge to dismiss the claim, arguing Flores did not sufficiently demonstrate that gender was a motivating factor in her termination, according to NBC.
However, District Judge Thomas Cullen has rejected that motion.
It s not the first time Virginia s Department of Corrections has landed in hot water over a similar issue. The agency received backlash in 2018 after it banned women from visiting prisons while wearing a tampon, due to a problem with body-scanning technology.
Appeal Over Dictionary Use Denied in University of Virginia Lacrosse Slaying
A federal judge has rejected an appeal from a former University of Virginia lacrosse player that his 2012 murder conviction should be tossed out because of a claim the jury improperly consulted a dictionary.
George Huguely V is serving a 25-year sentence for the 2010 slaying of Yeardley Love, who was herself a lacrosse player at U.Va. and was two weeks away from graduation when she was killed.
Huguely has filed multiple unsuccessful appeals. But in a ruling in December, U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen in Roanoke opened up a narrow window for Huguely and ordered an evidentiary hearing to be held to determine whether the jury improperly used a dictionary to look up the definition of “malice.”