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Erin Corral

Friday, January 25, 2013

Lawsuit Between Mentor Mom and Bryant & Stratton Transferred To Federal Court

Consequently, the suit -- which stemmed from a disagreement involving breast feeding -- was dismissed from Lake County Court of Common Pleas

The lawsuit that a Mentor mom filed against the Bryant & Stratton College campus in Eastlake -- which stemmed from a disagreement involving breast feeding -- has been transferred from Lake County Court of Common Pleas to the U.S. Federal Court in Cleveland. Consequently, the suit has been dismissed in Lake County Court of Common Pleas and will proceed in the federal court. In the suit, Erin Corral claims Bryant & Stratton discriminated against her and denied her the right to breast feed her baby while she was a nursing student there. Corral said she was repeatedly locked out of a class by her instructor Davida Smith -- who is also named in the lawsuit -- when she would go to her car during a 15-minute break in her Nursing Fundamentals …

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Must have coffee

2:27 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013

You sound so angry. I can sense it in the lack of control you have over yourself in your post. You say you were in the classes with her? Its interesting how the school has convinced students that they should be locked in hatred against this mother. Thank you Graduate RN. This puts my suspicion to rest that this is nothing more than a bunch of intolerant people circumventing their issues on …   more ›

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Mentor Mom Sues Bryant & Stratton College Over Breast Feeding

Woman claims she was the victim of sex discrimination, retaliatory discrimination and denied the right to breast feed her baby

A Mentor woman has filed a law suit in Lake County Court of Common Pleas, claiming that the Bryant & Stratton College campus in Eastlake discriminated against her and denied her the right to breast feed her baby. This is what occurred, according to Erin Corral's lawsuit: Corral joined the college's RN nursing program in May of 2010. In the following September, she gave birth to a daughter. Consequently, Corral sometimes needed to pump her breast milk while at the campus. In particular, she would sometimes pump in her car during a 15-minute break in between two sections of her Nursing Fundamentals class, according to the lawsuit. Occasionally, Corral would be five to ten minutes late for the second session of Nursing Fundamentals. Corral …

Nicki Exley

12:11 am on Wednesday, May 1, 2013

My sister in law went through Bryant and Stratton and said Davida Smith was a good instructor and also fair. That is much different than she is being portrayed in the media but my sister in law states that none of this is true.And for the people who made ugly comments that my sister in law is only sticking up for Davida because of the race thing my sister in law is white. My sister in law states …   more ›

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