Retaliation Law
 
United States of America v. Jessie Leroy Glass, Jr.

Statesville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession for child sexual abuse material. In late 2019, April Glass reported to law enforcement that Glass had “a massive amount of child porn saved on his phone.” J.A. 409. She provided the email address and suspected password for Glass’s Google Photos account, wherein he reportedly kept much of

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United States of America v Jessie Leroy Glass, Jr.

Statesville, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of child sexual abuse material. In late 2019, April reported to law enforcement that Glass had “a massive amount of child porn saved on his phone.” J.A. 409. She provided the email address and suspected password for Glass’s Google Photos account, wherein he reportedly kept much of the

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Tariq Farooq v. Nucor Business Technology, Inc. and Capgemini America, Inc.

Dallas, Texas, pro se Plaintiff attempted to represent himself without a lawyer on an employment discrimination case.

Farooq’s complaint, which he initially filed in state court and was removed to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a) and 28 U.S.C. § 1331, raised claims for hostile work environment, ethnicity discrimination, religious discrimination, retaliation, and wrongf

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Janelle Quinn v. Columbia County School District

August, Georgia, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a education civil rights violation theory.

Quinn filed this suit in April 2022. In her complaint, she set
out two claims: racial discrimination under Title VI (“Count One”),
and retaliation under Title VI (“Count Two”). Importantly, Count
One was brought on behalf of D.J.Q. and Count Two

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Zoe Hollis v. R& R Restaurants, Inc., et al.

Portland, Oregon employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation theory.

Zoe Hollis, a dancer at a Portland strip club called Sassy’s, sued the club’s owners and managers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“the FLSA” or “the Act”) for misclassifying its dancers as independent contractors and violating

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Kaukab Khan v. Crossover Market, LLC; Trilogy, Inc.

El Paso, Texas pro se Plaintiff without a lawyer field a civil rights claimed against the Defendants.

laintiff-Appellant Kaukab Khan, an Indian national, sued Defendant-Appellee Crossover Market, a staffing firm which recruits remote workers on behalf of other companies, including Defendant-Appellee Trilogy. In April 2025, Khan applied for a remote job as a research analyst at Trilogy. Ac

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Kelli Smith v. United States Parcel Service, Inc.

Houston, Texas, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on job discrimination theories.

Kelli Smith sued her former employer, United Parcel Service, Incorporated (UPS), under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (TCHRA) alleging race, gender, and disability discrimination, retaliation, and a hostile work environment.

Under McDonnell Douglas, a plaintiff bear

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Diana Newton v. Kohl's, Inc.

Rutland, Vermont, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights employment discrimination theory.

Google, A.I.:

Employment discrimination law
prohibits unfair treatment in the workplace based on characteristics like race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age (40 or older), disability, or genetic information. Key federal laws, such as Title VII of the

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Tom Koch v. UNUM Group, et al.

Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3.

A claim of retaliation under Title VII is governed by the three-step
burden-shifting framework under McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S.
792, 802–05 (1973). First, the plaintiff must establish a prima

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Jay F. Vermillion v. Tom Francum, et al.

Indianapolis, Indiana, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on civil rights violation theory.

Jay Vermillion, a prisoner at Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana, appeals from the summary judgment rejecting his claims that prison officials dismissed him from his job in the prison’s law library in retaliation for prior lawsuits.

This suit arises from Vermilli

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LaNetra Kellar v. The Yunion, Inc.

Flint, Michigan, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on an employment discrimination toery.

aNetra Kellar sued her former employer, The Yunion, Inc. (“Yunion”), for discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination.

Yunion is a nonprofit organization that provides educational programming and family services to at-risk youth in the Detroit are

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Stephen Berger v. Costco Wholesale Corporation

Juneau, Alaska, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on an employment discrimination theory.

Employment discrimination law prohibits employers from discriminating against applicants and employees based on protected characteristics such as race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and transgender status), national origin, age (\(40\) or older), disabil

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Brandon King v. United Parcel Service, et al.

Des Moines, Iowa, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued job discrimination theory.

Brandon King ended up in federal court because he did not want to work on
Saturdays. The district court1 denied his motion to remand the case to state court
and granted judgment on the pleadings to his employer, United Parcel Service, Inc.

Not all UPS drivers follow the s

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Julie A. Tamm and Rosannea M. Przybylski v. Milan Nerad

Grand Rapids, Michigan personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued Count I—First Amendment Retaliation (42 U.S.C. § 1983) (official and personal capacity); Count II—Llewellyn Preemption (state-law claim); Count III— Reasonableness Challenge – Square Lake (state-law claim); Count IV—Selective Enforcement Equal Protection) (§ 1983) (official an

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Jason Jorjani v. New Jersey Institute of Technology, et al.

Newark, New Jersey, employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights job discrimination theory.

NJIT hired Jason Jorjani in 2015 to teach philosophy,
and twice renewed his contract in 2016 and 2017. During this
time, Jorjani “formed the Alt Right Corporation,” to “widen
the message of his philosophy, which he describes as an
affirmation

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Jane Doe 1 v. City View Independent school District

Wichita Falls, Texas personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation claim.

Jane Doe attended high school in City View ISD from the fall of 2016
to the spring of 2020.1 Robert Morris was employed as a teacher and coach
at City View ISD while Doe was a student there. In 2016, Morris allegedly
began emotionally and sexually abusing Doe, then a fiftee

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Leah P. Hollis v. Morgan State University, et al.

Baltimore, Maryland employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on d Title VII, Title IX, Section 1983, and Maryland state law violation theories.

Dr. Leah Hollis alleges that in her former job as a professor at Morgan State University, the university denied her promotions multiple times because of her sex, paid her less than her male colleagues, and retaliated against her when she fo

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Andrew Morgan v. Allison Crane & Rigging, L.L.C.

Williamsport, Pennsylvania disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff on an Americans With Disabilities Act violation theory.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is a landmark civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities
. Its purpose is to guarantee that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else in areas of

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Mary Kay Thomas v. Marshall Public Schools, et al.

Minneapolis, Minnesota employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued asserting claims under the Minnesota Human Rights Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Thomas was employed by the District for nearly 30 years, beginning as a
teacher and the

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Mary Lynn Shumate v. City of Lynchburg, et al.

Lynchburg, Virginia employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a sex discrimination theory.

After Mary Shumate, a firefighter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, made
allegedly inappropriate remarks about another employee’s sexual orientation, the Fire
Chief demoted her. She commenced this action against the City, the City Manager, and the
Fire Chief,

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Brian Hussey v. City of Cambridge, et al.

Boston, Massachusetts civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a First Amendment violation toery.

Contending that he was unconstitutionally disciplined in retaliation for exercising his
First Amendment rights, Cambridge Police Officer Brian Hussey sued the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Commissioner of the Cambridge Police Department (collectively, the "De

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Martha Ellis v. Salt Lake City Corporation, et al.

Salt Lake City, Utah personal Injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violation theories.

Martha Ellis joined the Salt Lake City Fire Department (“SLCFD” or the
“Department”) as a firefighter in 1994. Thereafter, she quickly moved up
the ranks. In 2004, she was promoted to Fire Captain and served as the
Fire Marshal for the Sal

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Steve Melton v. City of Forrest City, Arkansas; Cedric Williams

Little Rock, Arkansas civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a First Amendment violation theory.

Steven Melton is a pro-life, evangelical Christian. In June 2020, he reposted
a black-and-white image on Facebook that depicted a silhouette of a baby in the
womb with a rope around its neck. His intent was to convey that he was “anti-
abortion.”

Othe

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Dorothy Bivens v. Zep, Inc.

Detroit, Michigan employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a retaliation theory.

After being fired from her job as a sales representative, Dorothy Bivens sued her employer, Zep, Inc., asserting claims under Title VII and Michigan law. According to Bivens, the company created a hostile work environment based on the actions of a company client. And when she complained abo

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United States of America v. Jaime Lopez

Las Cruces, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fentanyl Trafficking and Illegal Firearm Possession

Doña Ana Man Sentenced for Fentanyl Trafficking and Illegal Firearm Possession


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