Plaintiffs-Appellants J. Bronson, G. Cook, and D. Cook ("plaintiffs") subscribe to the religious doctrine of polygamy. G. Cook is married to D. Cook. G. Cook and J. Bronson filed an application for a marriage license, and Defendant-Appellee Sherrie Swensen ("Swensen"), the Clerk for Salt Lake County, Utah, refused to issue the marriage license. Plaintiffs subsequently brought a civil rights a

Plaintiff-Appellant Michael Lewis brought suit against his former employer, Defendant-Appellee Circuit City, for wrongful termination, based on alleged retaliation against Lewis for seeking workers' compensation benefits, a tort recognized by Kansas. However, Lewis has already arbitrated a claim of retaliatory discharge against Circuit City, pursuant to an arbitration agreement he signed with

In this action for discrimination in employment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, plaintiff Laverne T. Walker appeals from award of summary judgment in favor of her former employer, Austin Peay State University. The district court determined that plaintiff's claims, for retaliation and hostile work environment, were time-barred because she failed to file her required discrimi

Appellants Corporal B. Kurt Price and Corporal Wayne Warren, both former Delaware State Troopers and instructors in the Delaware State Police Firearms Training Unit, appeal from the District Court's grant of judgment as a matter of law pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(b). Price and Warren present two principal issues for review: (1) whether the activities they engaged in w

1 More than forty years have passed since the United States Supreme Court placed public officials on notice that they could seek redress for defamatory statements made about them only if actual malice animated those statements. See N.Y. Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) (involving a Montgomery, Alabama commissioner whose duties included the supervision of the police department).

Robert M. Burger was a member of the International Union of Elevator Constructors, Local No. 2. He sued the union after he was expelled from it, alleging injuries under both the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., and the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 141 et seq. A jury returned a verdict in favor of Burger on both counts, and the district court e

Denise Weisbarth, a park ranger for the Geauga Park District (GPD) in Geauga County, Ohio, was fired from her job in September of 2004. Following her termination, Weisbarth filed a First Amendment retaliation action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, asserting that the GPD fired her due to comments she had made to a consultant hired by the GPD to interview employees as part of a departmental ev

After being accused of plagiarism and expelled from an internet-based educational program, Craig Marten filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleging defamation in violation of state law and retaliation in violation of the First Amendment pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He appeals from an order of the District Court granting defendan

Plaintiff-appellant Gregory Dillon appeals from the May 1, 2006, judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Covello, J.) granting summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee Christopher Morano on Dillon's claim that Morano allegedly engaged in a series of adverse employment actions against Dillon as retaliation for Dillon's prior protected First Amendm

Plaintiffs asserted claims of first amendment retaliation for reporting drug use by coworkers on police force as well as other misconduct by superior officers to the states attorneys office.

JoAnn Buytendorp appeals the district court's2 grant of summary judgment in favor of her employer, Extendicare Health Services, Inc. ("Extendicare"), in this diversity action under the Minnesota Whistleblower's Act, Minn. Stat. §§ 181.931 to 181.935 ("the Act"). Extendicare cross-appeals the district court's denial of a motion requesting permission to amend a scheduling order to permit a mot

Jane Turner appeals an adverse grant of summary judgment on her claims of gender discrimination, hostile work environment and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. We affirm the grant of summary judgment with respect to Turner's gender discrimination and hostile work environment claims. However, we reverse the grant of summary judgment on the retali

1 More than forty years have passed since the United States Supreme Court placed public officials on notice that they could seek redress for defamatory statements made about them only if actual malice animated those statements. See N.Y. Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) (involving a Montgomery, Alabama commissioner whose duties included the supervision of the police department).

After working for nine years for American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation ("NTN"), Juan Pantoja was fired within days of his managers' learning that he had complained about discrimination to the EEOC. Pantoja had not been a perfect employee during the last year and a half of his tenure there; to the contrary, he had been disciplined on a number of occasions. Around the same time, h

Charles Horn complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that his employer, Concentra Health Services, Inc., fired him when he reported a sexual affair between his supervisor and another employee. The EEOC brought an action against Concentra, arguing that Concentra had violated the anti-retaliation provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The district court d

Yvonne Flitton brought suit against her former employer, Primary Residential Mortgage, Inc. ("PRMI"), alleging retaliatory and discriminatory termination in violation of Title VII, and seeking both compensatory and punitive damages. The case proceeded to trial. At the close of Flitton's case, PRMI filed a motion for judgment as a matter of law ("JMOL"). The district court granted PRMI's motion

Plaintiffs appeal from the district court's opinion and order granting a motion for summary judgment filed by Defendants Twin Peaks Charter Academy ("the Academy") and Dr. Dorothy Marlatt and its related entry of judgment for all Defendants on all claims. Plaintiffs are former teachers of the Academy. Plaintiffs filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 asserting that Defendants violated their rights

Two former undercover police officers for the City of Albuquerque brought suit against a local television station, KOB-TV, for broadcasting their identities and their undercover status in the context of their suspected involvement in an alleged incident of sexual assault. The officers were never charged, and about a week after the broadcasts, the city police department announced publicly that i

The Milwaukee Police Department employed David Kolatski and Alfonso Morales as police officers in its Vice Control Division ("VCD"). Kolatski and Morales were reassigned to street patrol duties after informing an Assistant District Attorney about allegations that Police Chief Arthur Jones and Deputy Chief Monica Ray had harbored the Deputy Chief's brother, who was wanted on felony warran

In this case, Todd Bernier thought that he was the victim of employee-on-employee, samesex harassment at the workplace of Morningstar, Inc., an investment research firm. He claimed that Morningstar's failure to prevent his fellow employee, Christopher Davis (who is gay), from sexually harassing him amounted to unlawful sex discrimination. Bernier, however, did not alert Morningstar to hi

Defendant City of Detroit appeals as of right the trial court's denial of its motions for directed verdict, judgment notwithstanding the verdict, new trial or remittitur, and several other rulings, in this case brought under the Whistleblowers Protection Act (WPA), MCL 15.361 et seq. Plaintiff Eric Heckmann cross-appeals the trial court's denial of attorney fees. We affirm in both the princ

Michelle Maupin, age 38, sued Ellicott, Maryland, Centennial High School on a civil rights theory claiming that she was the victim of racial discrimination when she taught at the school between 2003 and 2005. Specifically, she claimed that subjected to a race-based hostile work environment and retaliation by school administrators when she complained about her treatment at the school. She claim

Dung Nguyen brought suit against Gambro BCT, Inc. ("Gambro"), alleging claims of discriminatory termination and retaliation in violation of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. After determining that Nguyen failed to establish a prima facie case of discrimination or retaliation, the district court granted summary judgment to Gambro on both claims; Nguyen appeals. Exercising jurisdiction under

Cheri Greenwood sued the Washington Department of Social and Health Services on retaliation, age discrimination and negligent infliction of emotion distress claims after she was demoted for raising concerns about age discrimination concerns during layoffs in 2001 through 2003, when she headed the risk management office in the agency's personnel department. She claimed that the lost income and

Sue Collins, Valerie Larwick, Helen Hayden and Kristy Mason sued the Northwest Regional Training Center and Marty James for employment discrimination and retaliation. The claimed that James created a hostile work environment by sexually harassing them and that he retaliated against them when they complained about the way they were being treated on the job by him. They also claimed that the Tr