Lynda Hunt brought this sex discrimination action in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska against her former employer, Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), alleging violations of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d) ("EPA"); violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. ("Title VII"); breach of contract; and intentional i

Albert Thomas appeals the district court's order granting summary judgment to Defendant in this action alleging racial disparity in pay and retaliation, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended. We have reviewed the record and the district court's opinion and agree with the district court that Thomas failed to establish a prima facie case of discrimination under

On March 25, 1997, plaintiff John Zacharias filed a complaint in the Superior Court, Law Division, Essex County, alleging that his long-time employer, defendant Whatman P.L.C., had terminated his employment because of his age in contravention of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD), N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 to 10:5- 28, specifically 10:5-4. In the four and a half years since, there has been no a

Plaintiff, former Assistant Director of Nurses at the Camden County Health Services Center (CCHSC), appeals a summary judgment in favor of CCHSC dismissing her suit brought pursuant to the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA), N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -8. The motion judge concluded the record was insufficient to establish that the activity she engaged in, to which CCHSC allegedly retaliated,

Kim Horrocks appeals from an adverse grant of summary judgment on her sex discrimination and retaliation claims brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to 2000e-17. * * * Horrocks was employed as a Claims Auditor for Mechanical Breakdown Protection, Inc. (MBPI) from November 21, 1994, until December 24, 1998. She alleges her co-employee, Brian Rodekopf, crea

Octavio Delgado is a detective with the Milwaukee Police Department who alleges that he was transferred to a less desirable position and denied vacation time in retaliation for an investigation in which he participated and a memorandum that he wrote about alleged criminal activities involving a close relative of an elected official. This elected official is also purported to be a close p

Plaintiffs Ski Hawksnest, Inc. and Hawksnest Food and Beverage, Inc. claim that the Town of Seven Devils, the Town police chief, and the Town mayor retaliated against them in response to the exercise of their First Amendment rights and violated their substantive due process rights. Plaintiffs brought this action under 42 U.S.C. S 1983 seeking damages for the allegedly unconstitutional conduct

Appellant Rosalie Gunnell ("Gunnell") filed suit against her former employer, Utah Valley State College ("UVSC"), claiming that she was subjected to sexual harassment and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and that she was denied a medical leave of absence in violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 ("FMLA"). The district court granted summary judgme

Plaintiff Osband J. Holmes appeals from a summary judgment granted in favor of defendant Boeing Company, which was his former employer. Plaintiff alleges that defendant violated the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654 (Supp. 1998), when it terminated his employment after he had taken medica

Kim Trujillo-Cummings appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant Public Service Company of New Mexico ("PNM") on her retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"). We have jurisdiction pursuan

Plaintiff Robert W. Grosset appeals the order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granting defendant Waste Management Inc.'s Motion for Summary Judgment. Grosset filed suit against his former employer, Waste Management, alleging that it discriminated against him in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). See 42 U.S.C.  12101 e

Roger Jeseritz appeals from a final judgment entered in the district court2 granting summary judgment favor of the United States Postal Service (USPS) on his employment discrimination claims under the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794. For reversal, Jeseritz argues the district court erred in holding that he failed to produce sufficient evidence to support his discharge and harassment claims

Webster Greenthumb Co.'s ("WGT") amended complaint alleges that WGT, since filing a section 1981 lawsuit charging Fulton County with a custom or policy of disparate-treatment racial discrimination, has "bid upon several contracts, for which they were the lowest qualified bidder" and that Fulton County "refused to Section 1981 provides that "[a]ll persons ... shall have the same right in every Stat

Civil Rights - Employment - Sexual harassment and retaliation claims by former former employee of 68-year-old "godfather of soul" James Brown. Agbalaya was the West Coast president of James Brown Enterprises. Agbalaya claimed Brown grabbed her by the hips and pulled her toward him when she visited his Georgia home in 1999. She said she lost her job of seven years for rebuffing his advances. She

Plaintiff filed this action against the Secretary of the Army, alleging discrimination in the terms of his employment with the Kansas National Guard and retaliation in the form of an improvement plan, an unacceptable performance rating and, ultimately, plaintiff's dismissal, in violation of 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e - 2000-e(17). Plaintiff contended he was discriminated against on the basis of gender bec

Tortica Anderson brought this action against her former employer, G.D.C., Incorporated (G.D.C.), alleging discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, see 42 U.S.C.A. SS 2000e-2(a)(1), 2000e-3(a) (West 1994). Anderson now appeals rulings of the district court granting judgment as a matter of law to G.D.C. on the retaliation claim and denying her mo

Harle Houldsworth filed claims against the City of Temple Terrace, Florida (the "City") for sexual harassment and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §2000e et seq, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. She now appeals the grant of summary judgment in favor of the City on these claims. (1)

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Theophilus Green sued under 42 U.S.C. sec.sec. 1981 and 1983, alleging that the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation ("DPR") and two DPR attorneys (collectively, the "Illinois Defendants") violated his rights to due process and equal protection in bringing administrative disciplinary proceedings against him to suspend his clinical psychologist's license. Dr. Green also asserte

Plaintiffs-appellants Gary Arnett, Shelly Arnett, and John Paul Arnett, by next friend Gary Arnett, brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Gary Myers, Executive Director of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency ("TWRA"), and the members of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission ("TWRC") in their official capacities; against Harold Hurst, Gary Cook, Paul Brown, and Ronnie C

David Obi appeals the district court's orders granting summary judgment to his employer, the Department of Public Works for Anne Arundel County (County), on Obi's claims of employment discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, and reprisal in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.A. SS 2000e to 2000e- 17 (West 1994 & Supp. 2001) and denying reconsideration of that

Plaintiff Ronald L. Calvert, proceeding pro se on appeal and in the district court, appeals the district court's dismissal of his complaint charging his former employer with employment discrimination and retaliation, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and disability discrimination, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The district court granted defendant's m

The plaintiff in this employment discrimination suit appeals from the grant of summary judgment for the defendants. As explained in an unpublished order issued today, none of the plaintiff's claims has any merit, and summary judgment was therefore properly granted. We limit this published opinion to a question on which clarification is needed. It is the proper standard for summary judgme

In October 2000, Courtney Melanson filed an action in the district court under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et. seq., against her former employer, Browning Ferris Industries, Inc. and Allied Waste, Inc. (the "Company"). Melanson alleged that she had been subject to sexual harassment while employed by the Company and that she had been laid off in retaliation for her

Morgan's Foods, Inc., (appellant) appeals from a final order entered in the District Court1 for the Eastern District of Missouri denying appellant’s motion to reconsider sanctions imposed against it and its outside counsel for failure to participate in good faith in court-ordered alternate dispute resolution (ADR) and imposing additional sanctions for vexatiously increasing the costs of l