Jerry Ross sued his former employer, Garner Printing Company, for retaliation and breach of contract and won a $250,000 jury verdict on his breach of contract claim. The district court1 denied Garner Printing's motion for a new trial. Garner Printing now appeals, arguing that the district court erred in instructing the jury, in excluding evidence that Ross tried to bribe a witness, and in comm

Kenneth M. Burke appeals the grant of summary judgment to the National Labor Relations Board in his reverse discrimination and retaliation case, on the principal ground that the district court failed to draw all reasonable inferences in his favor and instead made factual findings on disputed issues. In suing the Board for violations of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. s 2000e et seq., as well as

In 1995, UMass appointed Nethersole, an African-American, as its state-wide associate vice-president for student affairs. As such, she was responsible, among other things, for promoting faculty/student diversity. During her early tenure, a UMass credit card disappeared. Subsequently it was used, without authorization, by a person whose identity remains unknown, to purchase a laptop computer. The U

Susan Darby brought this action alleging that the defendants, the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department, the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and several individual employees,3 violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12112(a), and the Missouri Human Rights Act, Mo. Rev. Stat. § 213.055 (2000). She also claimed that the defendants

Plaintiff worked as a staff pharmacist at the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) for eighteen years. He was covered by a collective bargaining agreement between his employer and his union, pursuant to which plaintiff could be fired for 'just cause,' defined to include inefficiency, insubordination, incompetence, misconduct, and negligence. Plaintiff was disciplined on March 12, 1998, for sev

Franklin A. Davis, formerly a school principal in the Little Rock School District (LRSD), brought this employment action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Arkansas law. Davis asserted federal constitutional and state-law claims arising out of the treatment he received after allegedly complaining of sexual harassment by a female supervisor, and out of his later termination on sexual harassment charges

Omni Air International, Inc. terminated Anna Botz's employment as a flight attendant in July 2000 after she refused a flight assignment that she believed violated federal safety regulations. Botz filed the instant action in a Minnesota state court alleging that Omni violated Minnesota's whistleblower statute, Minn. Stat. § 181.931-.935 (2000 & Supp. 2001), by discharging her in retaliation for

This is an appeal from an order entered December 16, 1998, by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, granting summary judgment in favor of appellee, Qualex, Inc., and against appellant, David G. Lamb, on all four counts of appellant's complaint, each of which alleges a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. S 12101 et seq., and from

When the City Council adopted the Ordinance in 1980, it made the following findings: “It is found and declared that there is a growing shortage of, but increasing demand for, housing in the City of Palo Alto. Such shortage and increased demand, coupled with increasing inflation, have placed substantial pressure on those residents of Palo Alto seeking rental housing. This Council finds th

Plaintiff, Diane Mancini, was the trailblazer by being the first female police officer in Teaneck. This appeal and cross- appeal arise out of her claims of sexual harassment and retaliation by the Teaneck Police Department. Plaintiff filed a sexual harassment and retaliation suit against defendants, Township of Teaneck ("Township"); the Teaneck Police Department ("Department"); Donald Gianno

Defendants Metropolitan Transportation Authority ("MTA") et al. appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Jack B. Weinstein, Judge, denying their motions pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 to dismiss the complaint of plaintiff Charles Munafo, brought principally under 42 U.S.C. §1983 (1994), asserting that he was subjected to discipline and to termi

While a pretrial detainee in an Indiana county jail, Higgs got into a fight with another inmate and was placed in "lockdown segregation," a form of solitary confinement. He filed a grievance with the jail authorities, who ten days after he had been placed in lockdown segregation wrote him that he had been "placed on lockdown for repeatedly threatening and harassing other inmates and has

In this extraordinary case an individual who obtained a $765,000 settlement in a suit for legal malpractice is suing--for legal malpractice--the lawyers who obtained the settlement for him. It is a tangled story, and we must begin at the beginning.

In 1987 Gary McKnight brought suit against his former employer, General Motors, in a federal district court in Wisconsin, charging discri

Theresa Naucke appeals the district court's1adverse grant of summary judgment in her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against the City of Park Hills (Park Hills) and James Link, personally and in his official capacity as City Administrator for Park Hills. Charles Naucke and John Duvall appeal the district court's partial denial of attorney's fees claimed in conjunction with their successful § 1983 clai

Bertha A. Harris, Barrie E. Kiger-Nogy, and Lee M. Shaffer were employees of the defendant-appellant, Parker. Shaffer was an instructor and one of three department heads within the Center for Chiropractic Sciences at Parker. Harris was the office manager for the Post-Graduate Department at Parker, and Kiger-Nogy worked under the direct supervision of Harris. In January 1999, Leander Eckard took ch

In late 1997, three African-American females filed suit against TTX Corporation alleging race and sex discrimination, retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress./1 The gravamen of the plaintiffs' complaint was that TTX employed discriminatory practices in the training and promotions of employees. On December 2, 1997, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint joining eig

This case presents the question of when an independent fair housing services provider engaged in advocacy efforts may sue the city with whom it contracts for retaliating against the provider in response to that advocacy. We hold that, as a general matter, retaliation against independent providers can be actionable under the federal Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3617, and the California Fair

Shirley Curd appeals the district court’s1 grant of summary judgment to Hank’s Discount Furniture (Hank’s), in her lawsuit under Arkansas state law and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (Title VII). Curd also challenges the dismissal of another lawsuit that she brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1985. We affirm both judgments.

Hank’s, which o

An internal affairs investigative officer in the Dallas Police Department filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit for employment retaliation in violation of her First Amendment right to free speech. The officer was downgraded in performance rating, removed from investigative and supervisory duties, and effectively disqualified for promotions and overtime pay because of her alleged improper ex parte commu

Mathew Babick, Jr. appeals from the summary judgment granted to the Appellees, El Paso Community College District (“EPCC”) and William Campion. We find that summary judgment was improperly granted and we reverse and remand for trial.

Babick was under contract with EPCC to serve as Director of Internal Audit Services. He believed that a number of practices he observed occurring at

Gary Lee, the sheriff of Hopkins County, Kentucky, appeals from the final judgment entered by the district court denying his motion for summary judgment on the issue of qualified immunity with respect to Plaintiffs' claims, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that Plaintiffs were discharged in retaliation for supporting Lee's opponent in a past county sheriff's election. Specifically, P

William Gagnon brought this reverse race discrimination and retaliation case under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., the Missouri Human Rights Act ("MHRA"), and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act ("USERRA"). Gagnon appeals the district court's issuance of judgment as a matter of law ("JAML") at the close of plaintiff's case in favor of Sprint PCS on his discrimi

This employment discrimination action is presented as a modern rendition of the age-old parable of a son being punished for the sins of his father.1 The father, Sterril Fogleman, had been an employee of defendant Mercy Hospital, Inc. ("Mercy") for seventeen years before leaving the hospital in 1993. In an action separate from this case, Sterril sued Mercy claiming that he had been forced out

Shortly after Christina Weston-Smith returned from her maternity leave in 1998 to her job as Director of Peri-Operative Services at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, she was laid off. Based on comments she overheard, the timing of her dismissal, a comparison of her credentials with those of her replacement, and both a hearsay statement (that her supervisor said to her replacement that Weston-Smith's leav

This is the second appeal arising out of the present case. For a complete statement of the facts in this case, see this Court's previous opinion at Brewer v. Cabarrus Plastics, Inc., 130 N.C. App. 681, 504 S.E.2d 580 (1998), disc. review denied, 350 N.C. 91, 527 S.E.2d 662 (1999)(Brewer I). However, under the facts of the case sub judice, no recitation of the facts is necessary for an understandin