Plaintiff Terry Garrett brought the present action against his former employer, Hewlett-Packard (HP), alleging race and age discrimination in violation of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq., and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq. Hewlett-Packard filed a motion seeking summary judgment on all claims. The district court granted the motion except as to Mr. Ga

Plaintiffs-Appellees Dean Kinney and David Hall brought suit against seven law enforcement officials, the seven cities or counties that employ these officials, and the East Texas Police Chiefs' Association, 1 asserting four claims: (1) a 42 U.S.C. § 1985(2) claim alleging conspiracy against Kinney and Hall because of their testimony in judicial proceedings, (2) a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim alle

Lisa Fine, a pilot for Ryan International Airlines (Ryan), was demoted in April 1996 after failing a required proficiency check. Fine believed that her test had been rigged because Ryan's male leadership did not want women flying its planes. In September of that same year, Fine and three female co-workers wrote a letter to management complaining about Ryan's inequitable treatment of its fem

In this case, the plaintiffs, African-Americans, claim that they were subjected to racial harassment in the workplace, and thus a hostile work environment, from 1981 through the filing of their suit in August 1999, and they seek damages from their employer under 42 U.S.C. § 1981. The employer denied the harassment; alternatively, as an affirmative defense, it contended that, at most, the plaintiff

The Tierneys and two of their four children brought this wide-ranging civil-rights suit (42 U.S.C. § 1983) against 19 individuals and two institutions - the public school district of Quincy, Illinois, and a private swimming club in Quincy - charging retaliation and conspiracy to retaliate against the family for the exercise by Mr. and Mrs. Tierney of their right of free speech. The distric

1 Brian Hall appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of ConAgra Foods, Inc.1 The issues on appeal in this action for retaliatory discharge are (1) whether Hall's acceptance of back pay and reinstatement following mediation of his grievance precluded him as a matter of law from filing suit for retaliatory discharge, and (2) whether there is a question of fact as to whether Hall

The principal issue presented in this appeal is what constitutes sufficient consideration to support an agreement in Wisconsin to arbitrate between an employer and an at-will employee. The appellant, Ilah M. Tinder, sued her former employer, Pinkerton Security, for employment discrimination and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. Citing wh

This appeal follows a jury verdict in favor of the defendant Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). Gerald Schobert and Ronald Werner, maintenance workers for IDOT, accused their employer of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. They argued unsuccessfully to the jury that IDOT discriminated against men by per-mitting the one woman in the maint

Jerold Daniel Friedman (plaintiff) appeals from a judgment entered after the general demurrers of Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. (defendants) were sustained without leave to amend. In the published portion of this opinion, we resolve the question of whether veganism is a "religious creed" within the meaning of

Thomas Woodland sued his employer, Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc., alleging unlawful race and age discrimination and retaliation in violation of federal and Minnesota anti-discrimination laws. The district court1 granted summary judgment dismissing Woodland's claims. We review the grant of summary judgment de novo, applying the same standards as the district court. See Robinson v. Valmont Indus

Candis Smith appeals the district court's2 entry of summary judgment against her and in favor of her employer, The Memorial Foundation of Allen Hospital, and related defendants3 on her claim that Allen fired her in retaliation for taking leave to adopt a child and for complaining about the Hospital's hiring practices. She claimed Allen's termination of her employment violated the Family and Me

Plaintiff-appellee/cross-appellant Paul Wennik brought suit against his former employer, defendant-appellant/cross-appellee PolyGram Group Distribution, Inc., alleging age and mental handicap discrimination and retaliation in violation of Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B. (1)

A jury found for Wennik on the handicap discrimination claim and for PolyGram on the age discrimination claim. PolyGram appe

The State of Rhode Island brought suit in the district court seeking to enjoin certain federal administrative proceedings on the ground that the proceedings infringed upon the state's constitutionally protected sovereign interests. Finding the state's arguments convincing, the district court enjoined the United States Department of Labor and three employees of a Rhode Island state agency from proc

This is an appeal from the grant of summary judgment to the defendant, the Veterans Administration, in a suit under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §§ 701 et seq., the counterpart for federal agency defendants to the employment provisions of the subsequently enacted Americans with Disabilities Act. The plaintiff, a nurse at a VA hospital, injured her back help-ing to lift a 400-po

The issue on appeal is whether the District Court should have entered a judgment as a matter of law for Robinson Township in this First Amendment retaliation case involving one of its police officers. We find that there was insufficient evidence that the officer's speech was a motivating factor in his suspension, and that the District Court's "perceived support" theory does not prov

The law firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP ("Luce Forward") refused to hire Donald Scott Lagatree ("Lagatree") as a full-time legal secretary because he would not sign an agreement to arbitrate claims arising from his employment. On behalf of Lagatree, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") sued Luce Forward for retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights

In this civil rights action Plaintiff JoAnne Dixon ("Dixon") appeals from the grant of summary judgment in favor of all Defendants on Dixon's claim that she was subjected to gender discrimination, thereby depriving her of equal protection rights guaranteed under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Because there is an insufficient causal link between Dixon's harm and Defendants' c

Melanie Williams brought this action against Defendants Motorola, Inc., and several individuals. Her Amended Complaint contained thirteen counts and alleged federal claims under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 ("COBRA"), codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1160 et seq., the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq., Title VII

This is the second time we have been asked to consider the legal ramifications of certain actions that then-Chief of Police of the Milwaukee Police Department Philip Arreola, and then-Deputy Inspector Arthur Jones, took in November 1993 with respect to Officers Rod Gustafson and Javier Cornejo. In our first opinion, Gustafson v. Jones, 117 F.3d 1015 (7th Cir. 1997) (Gustafson I), we conc

Plaintiff, William Vorpagel, appeals the order of the circuit court dismissing his complaint in which he alleged that defendant, Maxell Corporation of America, discharged him in retaliation for his cooperating in the criminal investigation of a co-employee. Plaintiff contends that the trial court erred in dismissing the complaint because it states a claim for retaliatory discharge even though the

The plaintiff appeals from the grant of summary judgment to her former employer, argu-ing only that the defendant should have been equi-tably estopped to plead the bar of the statute of limita-tions to her Title VII suit for sexual harassment. The doc-trine of equitable estoppel, when invoked as a defense to the statute of limitations, requires the plaintiff to show that the defendant took

Susan Davey brought this employment discrimination action against her former employer, Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMC), alleging LMC discriminated against her on the basis of gender in 1992 and retaliated against her in 1993 for complaining about the discrimination when LMC selected her for layoff during a reduction in force. Davey amended her complaint to include another retaliation claim based

Kathryn R. Harris, appeals the District Court's 1 adverse grant of summary judgment in her action against her former employer, Emergency Providers, Inc. (EPI), and union, International Association of Firefighters, Local No. 1-34 (IAFF). Harris claimed violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, and state law. She based her claims on

Title VII Civil Rights Claims - 42 U.S.C. 2000e - Job Discrimination Claims by mostly Hispanic female employees of Technicolor Video-cassette, Inc. of Camarillo, California who claimed that they were subjected to verbal sexual harassment and retaliation.

In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, the jury found that Bexar County, Texas, Constable Jerry Connell fired deputy constable Harold Merritt Hitt in retaliation for Hitt’s exercise of his First Amendment right to freedom of association. The jury awarded Hitt $300,000 in compensatory damages, three-fourths of which was for non-pecuniary harms like “mental and emotional distress”.