Lesley Gentry was hired by Export Packaging Company ("Export") as a temporary employee in October of 1997. She became a permanent employee on December 1, 1997 and transferred into the technical services department in April of 1998, assuming the position of Administrative Assistant to Technical Services. In this new position, she served in a help desk capacity. Her immediate supervisor was

Ms. Selenke maintained that MIC failed to reasonably accommodate her sinus disorder, retaliated against her for seeking reasonable accommodation, and then terminated her because of her disability. She also asserted a wrongful discharge claim under Colorado law. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of MIC on all of Ms. Selenke's claims, reasoning that she failed to present sufficien

In May 1998, Keeler brought suit against Putnam in Massachusetts state court.(1) The complaint set forth six claims under Massachusetts law: intentional age discrimination (count I) and disparate-impact age discrimination (count II), Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B, § 4 (1998); retaliation following his complaint (count III), id. at §§ 4, 4(4); failure to investigate and remedy discrimination (count IV);

Joseph Amro, who is of Lebanese ancestry, brought this action against his employer, The Boeing Company, alleging discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 in connection with the denial of various employment opportunities. The district court granted summary judgment to Boeing.

Mr. Amro, who is an engineer, was hired by Boeing in 1984. By 1999, he was a senior

Plaintiff Henry B. O'Neal was terminated from his job one day after his attorney sent a letter to his employer, Ferguson Construction Company ("Ferguson"), accusing the company of reassigning O'Neal in retaliation for his filing race discrimination and retaliation claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). O'Neal filed suit against Ferguson under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3(a) ("Tit

Gonzales's principal allegation is that the defendants retaliated against him because he had testified against Castillo before the grand jury. Gonzales also included claims for violating his right to due process, conspiring to obstruct judicial proceedings under 42 U.S.C. § 1985, violating the Texas Whistleblower Act, and intentionally inflicting emotional distress.

The district court denied q

Civil Rights – Job Discrimination – Retaliation. National original (Panamanian citizen), employment discrimination case – failure to promote – defense being heavy Spanish accent. Plaintiff filed discrimination complaint with Union and thereafter subjected to retaliatory action by being reassigned, harassed and ultimately terminated from his employment. Settlement wa

The University of Alaska terminated Dr. Mritunjoy Sengupta from his position as a tenured professor of mining engineering. The University based its decision on the factual findings made by a hearing officer at an earlier proceeding on grievances brought by Sengupta against the University. These findings from the grievance proceeding were later accorded collateral estoppel effect in the ter

Renee Francis, a former employee of The Dow Chemical Company, sued Dow and its employee, Joseph Hegyesi, alleging discrimination, fraud, constructive discharge, and retaliation. The trial court granted summary judgment for Dow and Hegyesi on Francis' fraud claims and dismissed Hegyesi from the case. The remaining claims against Dow were tried to a jury. After a two-week trial, the jury rejected Fr

Civil Rights Act - Title VII Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Claims - Diana Rahn, a 34-year-old former of Junction City Foundry, claimed a coworker repeatedly offered her money in exchange for her undergarments or to watch him masturbate. She also claimed that she was presented with cast-iron penis images by other workers at the foundry. The alleged harassment took place from April 1998 throu

Rita Sanchez-Webster claimed that the City of Albuquerque discriminated against her on the basis of her sex in failing to promote her to the position of Recreation Center Supervisor. Plaintiff also claimed that the City of Albuquerque retaliated against her because she filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The City of Albuquerque denied the plaintif

Civil Rights - This lawsuit arose out of Serna's service in the Downtown Foot and Bike Patrol Unit of the San Antonio Police Department. Serna joined the unit in 1987, having joined the police force two years earlier. In 1995, when problems in the unit came to a head, the unit was commanded by Captain Rudy Vernon and Lieutenant Harry Griffin. The problems in the unit grew out of friction between s

Wrongful Termination - Plaintiff was a six-year employee who was transferred to California as General Manager of the Thousand Oaks store that was not yet opened. Ethan Allen was rolling out a new computer system and put the Thousand Oaks store on the system while the rest of the LA District was on the old system. Order entry problems occurred and plaintiff began to complain to supervisors, defen

Tonya Walker sued her employer United Parcel Service, Inc., advancing federally-based claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended ("Title VII," 42 U.S.C. §2000e to 2000e-17) and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 ("FMLA," 29 U.S.C. §2601-2654) and various tort claims under Oklahoma common law.(1) Walker's Title VII claims were based on alleged sexual harassment and on r

Retaliation under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, Section 12940(f).

This is the first trial in any California State or Federal Court of California state judges suing for hostile work environment. Low and Andric, Worker’s Compensation Judges, based in Long Beach, asserted retaliation under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, Section 12940(f), that they were e

Plaintiff initially brought a federal civil rights claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging she was arbitrarily reassigned during the school year from her position as high school principal of PISD to an alternative school in retaliation for exercising her First Amendment rights. While still employed with PISD, Plaintiff received a reprimand or “attack letter” from the superintende

Civil Rights - Job Discrimination - Race - Retaliation and Intentional Infliction of Emotion Distress - Plaintiff was fired after he filed an EEOC claim against Bell Helicopter.

Defendant denied wrongdoing.

Civil Rights - Employment - Gender Discrimination, Retaliation and Intentional Interference with Contractual Relations Claims

Civil rights - 42 U.S.C. 2000e - Religious Discrimination - Employment - Dr. Shott, employed as a biostatistician at Rush, filed this suit in 1994, alleging three different claims: (1) discrimination on the basis of her Orthodox Judaism in violation of Title VII; (2) discrimination on account of her disability (rheumatoid arthritis) in violation of the ADA; and (3) retaliation for having asse

The plaintiff, acting pro se, brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against correctional officers at the Fishkill Correctional Facility, alleging that he was the victim of a retaliatory disciplinary proceeding in violation of his due process rights.

At the time of the incidents that form the basis of this action, plaintiff Richard Maldonado was an inmate at Fishkill Co

Plaintiff filed this cause on May 6, 1999, alleging that Defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Civil Rights Act of 1991, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2000e-17 ("Title VII"), and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 701-797b. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant discriminated against him on the basis of national origin and disability and that Defendant reta

First Claim for Relief: Action for retaliation under Section 510 of ERISA (29 USC sec. 1140). The First Claim for Relief alleged that PLM had retaliated against plaintiff because (a) he opposed PLM's decision to terminate an Employee Stock Ownership Plan; and (b) he had filed a request for comments with the U.S. Dept. of Labor.

Second Claim For Relief: Action for wrongful discharge i

American with Disabilities Act Claim - ADA - Plaintiff suffered from Crohn's disease. Defendant allowed her to work from home three days a week to accommodate her disability and provided office equipment for that purpose. She objected when Guardian Life Insurance Company of America asked her to specify the two days she would work in the office. She filed for disability benefits and filed a comp

Wrongful Termination - Retaliation for exercise of free speech. This case involved the intentional harassment by co-workers for plaintiff's exercise of speech supporting Hispanic employees. Plaintiff's grievences for retaliatory harassment went unprocessed by her supervisor and she quit.

Wrongful Termination - Plaintiff was a six-year employee who was transferred to California as General Manager of the Thousand Oaks store that was not yet opened. Ethan Allen was rolling out a new computer system and put the Thousand Oaks store on the system while the rest of the LA District was on the old system. Order entry problems occurred and plaintiff began to complain to supervisors, defen