Alternate Fuels, Inc. (AFI) and its President, Larry W. Pommier, sued two officials of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) – Thomas M. Cabanas and Richard A. Hall – for denial of equal protection, tortious interference with contract, and First Amendment retaliation. Summary judgment was granted to Cabanas and Hall on all claims except part of AFI’s tortious-interference-with c

Plaintiff-Appellant Bernadine R. Vaughn (“Vaughn”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee Epworth Villa. At issue is Vaughn’s allegation that she was retaliated against by Epworth Villa for participating in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) process. We exercise jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and affirm.

Evie Rhodes was involved in a car accident with Becky Erion, and Rhodes sued Erion. Erion made three offers of judgment to Rhodes under Alaska Civil Rule 68, but Rhodes failed to accept these offers. The case proceeded to trial, and the jury awarded Rhodes $18,281.85 in damages. This verdict was at least five percent less favorable to Rhodes than an offer made by Erion, and Rhodes was therefore li

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Massachusetts has had a troubled history. This lawsuit is brought by a disgruntled former contract medical examiner, Dr. Abraham Philip, against the administrator of that office, John Cronin.

In November of 2000 the National Association of Medical Examiners ("NAME") conducted an audit and filed a report critical of the Office of the Chief

In this securities case, a drug company, Biogen Idec Inc., conducted clinical trials and received accelerated FDA approval for TYSABRI, a promising new drug for multiple sclerosis and similar autoimmune diseases. The price of the company stock increased as FDA approval was sought and granted. Less than three months after the approval, on February 18, 2005, continuing clinical trials of the drug re

This is an employment discrimination action brought by plaintiff-appellant Alexei Kouvchinov against his quondam employer, Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), and Lisa Wales, a PTC functionary. The plaintiff's overarching claim is that the defendants cashiered him in retaliation for his exercise of the right to receive short-term disability (STD) benefits under an employee benefit plan, there

RN Solution, Inc. (RNS) entered into a contract to recruit South Korean nurses for Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), which operates a chain of medical facilities. The contract contains a broad arbitration clause. Under disputed circumstances, RNS’s chief executive officer (CEO), Tanya Woo, became involved in an intimate relationship with a CHW vice-president who oversaw the recruiting contract, St

Carmen Perez-Dickson sued the Bridgeport Board of Education on a wrongful termination and intentional inflection of emotional distress theories claiming that she was fired in retaliation for for turning in two teachers who allegedly abused minority.

In 2006, Perez-Dickson filed suit against the board, Assistant Supt. of Schools Henry Kelly and former interim Supt. Daniel Shamas, claiming

Eight employees of the Village of Steger’s police department sued the Village under a number of federal statutes, raising claims including race discrimination, sex discrimination, disability discrimination, and retaliation based on political affiliation. See the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. § 1962; the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 e

This case involves the applicability of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) privacy and law-enforcement-purposes exemptions to a police incident report. Following a notorious assault of several Michigan State University students in a dormitory room, plaintiff State News made a FOIA request that defendant Michigan State University disclose the report. Michigan State resisted this request, claimin

Plaintiff-Appellant Melinda K. Carney (“Carney”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee the City and County of Denver (“the City”), in relation to her claims of racial discrimination and retaliation arising under 42 U.S.C. § 1981. We exercise jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Ms. Carney is a

Dave James, a former employee of Collin County, Texas (“Collin County” or the “County”), brought this suit against defendants-appellees Collin County; Ron Harris, County Judge; County Commissioners Joe Jaynes, Phyllis Cole, Jerry Hoagland, and Jack Hatchell (collectively with Ron Harris, the “Commissioners”); and Jon Kleinheksel, Director of Public Works, for violating his First Amendm

This appeal involves a claim brought under the Law Against Discrimination (LAD), N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 to -49, by a Jewish police officer who alleged that he was subjected to a hostile work environment based on his religion and ancestry. The principle issue before us is whether the trial court erred in denying a motion for involuntary dismissal and allowing the claim to be decided by the jury. The jury

Christian DeJohn sued Temple University, its former president, David Adamany, and two of his former graduate school professors, Richard H. Immerman and Gregory J.W. Urwin (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Temple” or “the University”) in an eight-count complaint for violations of, inter alia, First Amendment freedom of speech and expression stemming from the University’s Policy on

In this workplace retaliation action, the plaintiff, Colleen Griffin, appeals from the judgment of the trial court, rendered after a jury trial, in favor of the defendants, Yankee Silversmith, Ltd., and Howard Trefrey, its sole owner and shareholder. On appeal, she alleges instructional error. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The following facts and procedural history are relevant

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has certified two questions to us: the first involves the relationship between the waiver clause in Labor Law § 740 (New York's Whistleblower Law) and Labor Law § 741 (New York's Health Care Whistleblower Law); the second relates to the scope of section 741's coverage. We begin by summarizing the facts alleged in the amended compl

Alvarene Butler is black and Karen Stacey is white. They both worked for the Alabama Department of Transportation. One work day in January of 2005 they were going to lunch together. Stacey was driving a pickup truck, and Butler was the only passenger.

On the way to lunch, the truck collided with another vehicle, which was driven by a black male. After the collision, Stacey turned to Butler

Scott L. Howard appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action against several Colorado Department of Corrections (“CDOC”) employees.1 Howard alleges that defendants knew that he had been sexually assaulted by members of a prison gang, but despite this they failed to protect him from future harm by the gang. Although he reported his fears to prison office

Plaintiff-Appellant Melinda K. Carney (“Carney”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee the City and County of Denver (“the City”), in relation to her claims of racial discrimination and retaliation arising under 42 U.S.C. § 1981. We exercise jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Ms. Carney is a

Appellants, Sandra L. O’Brien, a white employee of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Donna E. Peterson, a white former employee of NRCS, appeal the district court’s1 grant of the USDA’s motion for summary judgment on all their claims. We affirm.

I.

We recite the facts in the light most favorable to Appellants,

Edward Heaton (Heaton) filed suit against The Weitz Company, Inc. (Weitz) alleging he was retaliated against in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3, et seq. (Title VII) and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a. A jury found in favor of Heaton on his retaliation claim, and awarded Heaton $137,070.44 in compensatory damages, including an award of $73,320.00 for emotional distr

Terri Tucker sued her former employer, Journal Register East d/b/a New Haven Register, for firing her in retaliation for testifying truthfully in a sexual harassment jury trial relating to another employee. Tucker was supposed to be Journal Register's lead witness against the employee's complaint. But she later observed the male employee make sexually lewd gestures and heard him make sexual commen

This case presents an appeal from the superior court’s modified award of attorney’s fees and personal representative fees. In a prior appeal, we concluded that the estate’s personal representative, James Dieringer, breached his fiduciary duty to the estate by engaging in self-dealing and other bad faith conduct. We vacated awards of attorney’s fees and personal representative fees and rema

This case arises from the Los Angeles Police Department’s (“LAPD”) investigation and prosecution of three former police officers, Paul Harper, Brian Liddy, and Edward Ortiz.

These officers were implicated in wrongdoing by former LAPD officer Rafael Perez in an event that came to be known as the “Rampart Scandal”—an event that, based on Perez’s own unlawful conduct and his alle

Tonya Davis is a registered nurse assigned to the Emergency Room at John H. Stroger, Jr., Hospital of Cook County, Illinois (“Stroger”). Davis was involved in a series of unpleasant incidents with hospital personnel and expressed her resulting dismay in a memorandum. This prompted her supervisor, Cynthia Przislicki, to ask Davis to submit to an evaluation of fitness for duty. When Davis refuse