Donna Vozenilek sued the PinnacleHealth System for invasion of privacy for publishing her name, birth date, and social security number in 600,000 newspaper advertising relating to Breast Cancer Awareness Month in 2002.

This is a First Amendment student speech case.

Facts

One January day, Coca-Cola and other private sponsors supported a "Winter Olympics Torch Relay" in Juneau, Alaska. Students were released from school so that they could watch the Olympic torch pass by. Joseph Frederick, then an 18-year-old senior at Juneau-Douglas High School, never made it to school that morning because he got

Plaintiffs are employees of the City of Altus, Oklahoma (City). They appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment dismissing all their claims against the City, the City Administrator, and the Street Commissioner (collectively referred to as Defendants). All claims arise out of the City's English-only policy for its employees. Asserting claims of both disparate-impact and disparate-trea

George Roger Lee appeals the decision of the district court1 granting summary judgment to Rheem Manufacturing Company ("Rheem") on Lee's claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Rheem operates a manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The plant is part of Rheem's Air Conditionin

In this appeal we must resolve issues arising from the employment discrimination action brought against Pacific Bell Telephone Company (PacBell) by a former service technician, Joshua Liam Josephs. After the jury rendered a verdict for Josephs on his claim alleging that PacBell's decision to deny him reinstatement violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et.

In September 1997, a group of African-American employees of the Company who believed that they were victims of race discrimination by Boeing consulted class counsel. Prior to the filing of this lawsuit, forty-three African-American Boeing employees filed a lawsuit in March 1998 in federal court in Seattle, Washington, alleging individual claims of race discrimination in violation of 42 U.S

Pro se plaintiff Sheila Bilyeu was the Independent Party candidate for Oklahoma's United States Senate seat in 2004. As such, she was the subject of a September 6, 2004, newspaper article written by Nolan Clay and published by The Daily Oklahoman ("defendants").(1) Dissatisfied with the article and a photograph "that made her look weird," Ms. Bileyu sued defendants in state court "for discrimi

Plaintiffs Gina Bauer and Suzanne Stolz sued the Defendant Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), claiming that MDA unlawfully discriminated against them in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101 et seq., and the Kansas Act Against Discrimination, Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 44-1001 et seq. The Plaintiffs, both of whom have disabilities due to muscular dystrophy, alle

Dr. Mark T. Reilly, a Cape Code veterinarian, sued the Boston Herald for defaming him in a newspaper article in 1998. The claimed that the article contained false information about his care and treatment of a dog taken to him for treatment. The article said that Reilly played golf rather than take care of the aminal.

The Post Herald denied wrongdoing.

This interlocutory appeal arises out of a defamation action filed by the plaintiff, Robert R. Thomas, a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, against the defendants, Bill Page; Shaw Suburban Media Group, Inc., a division of Shaw Newspapers, an Illinois corporation, d/b/a the Kane County Chronicle; and Greg Rivara. In the underlying complaint, the plaintiff asserts claims for defamation and fa

John Wiggins sued the Wilson Millard and others including the Brewton Newspapers for defamation based on the publication of the August 9, 2000, issue of the Standard. On that date, Raymond and John resided at their home at 2474 Bradley Road, on the outskirts of East Brewton. Raymond was personally acquainted with Wallace and Chief Mallard. Chief Mallard had known Raymond for three or four y

Mecklenburg County employed Martin for twenty-seven years-- from 1974 until his discharge in 2001. Since 1985, he served as the Director of the Department of Social Services' Youth and Family Services Division.

In 1997, an employee in his Division, Ruth Annette Harris, complained to County officials that she had been sexually harassed by her supervisor, Glenn Holland. An internal Count

The Town of Marshall, North Carolina, hosts regular Friday-night concerts and community gatherings at the Marshall Depot, the Town's community center. Rebecca Willis enjoyed attending the Friday-night gatherings and dancing to the music provided by the local bands. Willis's unorthodox dancing style, however, led to complaints about her to the committee in charge of the Depot events. As a

This appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction stems from an ill-fated business arrangement between plaintiff-appellant Direct Merchants S.A., Inc. ("DMSA") and defendant-appellee Lillian Santiago Bauzá ("Santiago") to publish a bilingual newspaper in Western Massachusetts. Certain of the facts are contested but what follows is the basic outline of events.

Santiago (thro

Doris Reynolds sued Angela Passidomo Trafford for fraud after paying Trafford $2.8 million over a four-year period for spiritual advise. She claimed that Trafford took advantage of her depression. She claimed that Reynolds slandered her in comments published in a newspaper story about the lawsuit.

Trafford counterclaimed for defamation and claimed that Reynolds sued because of a bad case o

This is a whistleblower action brought by Adrienne Anderson (Anderson) against Metro Wastewater Reclamation District (Metro) pursuant to various environmental statutes which prohibit discrimination against "any employee or any authorized representative of employees." Pursuant to the recommendation of one of Metro's local unions, the City of Denver's mayor appointed Anderson to Metro's Board o

Plaintiff Bruce Baron, a former corrections officer at the Suffolk County House of Correction, was allegedly harassed and forced to quit his job after he broke a code of silence by reporting a fellow officer's misconduct. He sued corrections officer Daniel Hickey, the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department ("Department"), and Suffolk County Sheriff Richard Rouse for civil rights violations stemmin

Single Scene, Solo RFD, and Country Singles are a few of the magazines Harlan L. Jacobsen distributes through coin-operated newsracks at highway rest areas across the country. Although he has been flouting them for nearly a decade, Jacobsen considers the Illinois Department of Transportation's (IDOT) newsrack regulations overbearing and unconstitutional. Indeed, he is convinced that the

Plaintiff-appellant Forest Guardians sought to obtain information and a waiver of all search and copying fees from the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552. After the BLM refused to release the information and denied the fee waiver, Forest Guardians sued the BLM in federal district court.(*) The district court granted Forest Guardians

Plaintiffs Bennie Maestas and Ray Hort are employees of the City of Albuquerque's Solid Waste Management Department (SWMD). They sued Defendants David Segura and Dennis Pratt under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.(1) Plaintiffs alleged Defendants retaliated against them in violation of the First Amendment after Plaintiffs spoke out on waste and inefficiency within the Vehicle Maintenance Division (VMD) of SWM

This is an employment discrimination action in which appellant Kathleen Ingram ("Ingram") brought state and federal claims against her former employer, appellee Brink's, Incorporated ("Brink's"), pursuant to M.G.L. ch. 151B §§ 4(1) and (16A), and the Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d). The district court granted summary judgment for Brink's on both the failure-to-promote and unequal pay claims.

{ 1} This is an appeal and cross-appeal from a judgment awarding back pay and benefits in a mandamus action. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

{ 2} From March 1985 through August 21, 1998, appellee and crossappellant Batavia Local School District Board of Education employed appellant and cross-appellee, Dorsie Stacy, as a mechanic, under a continuing contract. During this period,

Food Services Corporation ("Food Services") brought an action against Jeremy Francis Rheam ("Jeremy") asking the trial court to quiet title to the property at issue, declare that Food Services owns an undivided one-half interest in the property, and allow Food Services to partition said property and receive one-half of the net proceeds of a sale of the property. The trial court granted summary

Linda McGreevy, a school nurse, filed this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against defendants: the Bermudian Springs School District (the "District"); Gerald Soltis, the District's superintendent; Roger Stroup, principal of the Bermudian Springs Elementary School; and Kathleen Tsosie, the assistant principal of the Bermudian Springs Elementary School, claiming that defendants

Plaintiffs-appellants James Albright, a former bodyguard and lover of Madonna, and his corporate agent, Amrak Productions, Inc. ("Amrak"), appeal from the dismissal of their defamation, invasion of privacy, and other state claims stemming from the publication of a tell-all book, Madonna. In a nutshell, defendants-appellees author and publishers allegedly portrayed Albright as a homosexual by mi