Plaintiff Jeffrey Bonkowski appeals from the order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania granting the summary judgment motion filed by Defendant Oberg Industries, Inc. (“Oberg”) with respect to his claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”). In this appeal, the Court must interpret a Department of Labor (“DOL”)

Plaintiff-Appellant Gregory Hubbs asserts that he was severely beaten by Suffolk
County deputy sheriffs while he was being detained in a holding cell at the Suffolk County
Supreme Court following a court appearance. Hubbs sued the alleged perpetrators in the
Eastern District of New York and the district court (Joanna Seybert, Judge) granted
summary judgment to the defendants on the

Tulsa, OK - Mark McDaniel sued Southwestern Gunite, Inc. on a wrongful termination theory claiming:

1 Mark McDaniel (“McDaniel”) is a resident of Tulsa County, state of Oklahoma.
2 Southwestern Gunite, Inc (“Gunite” or “Company”) is an incorporated business
headquartered in Broken Arrow, state of Oklahoma Upon information and belief, Mike Orman

David and Robert Donnert, circus performers, horse
trainers, and brothers, commenced this breach-of-contract action
against Feld Entertainment, Inc., which operates the Ringling
Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. They alleged that Feld
Entertainment wrongfully terminated two contracts -- an
April 21, 2010 Circus Acts Employment Contract (the “Employment
Contract”

Beginning in January 2012, plaintiff Michael Williams was an employee at a retail store operated by Marshalls of CA (Marshalls) in Costa Mesa, California. On March 22, 2013, after a little more than one year of employment, he brought a representative action against Marshalls under the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA) (Lab. Code, §§ 2698-2699.5), alleging Marshalls fail

Roy Butler, a parole eligible life prisoner, challenged the constitutionality of the process used by the Board of Prison Terms (Board) to determine whether prisoners such as him are suitable for release on parole. Specifically, he contended that the Board’s practice of deferring the fixing of a prisoner’s base term (which measures individual culpability for the commitment offense) an

Plaintiffs Elizabeth Castro,
LaTonya Brooks, and Michael Florez sued their former employer,
defendant DeVry University, Inc., under Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Plaintiffs allege that DeVry retaliated
against them by terminating their employment for
complaining about their supervisor’s racially and ethnically
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derogatory remarks.

Defendant Archstone Communities LLC (“Archstone”)
appeals from the district court’s denial of its Motion to
Compel Arbitration. We reverse the district court’s order and
remand for entry of an order granting Archstone’s Motion to
Compel Arbitration.
I.
Michael Ashbey was employed at Archstone from
December 1996 until November 2010, when

Leola Stuart, proceeding pro se, appeals the judgment against her in this forcible entry and detainer action. See TEX. PROP. CODE ANN. §§ 24.001-.011 (West 2014). We overrule Stuart’s issues on appeal and affirm the trial court’s judgment.
1 The Honorable Jason Wolff is the presiding judge of County Court at Law No. 2, Bexar County, Texas. The Honorable Tina Torres, former

A jury convicted Jose Vega-Robles of conspiracy to sell controlled substances,
attempted robbery, and two first degree murders, and found true gang and firearm
enhancements. In People v. Chiu (2014) 59 Cal.4th 155 (Chiu) our Supreme Court held
“an aider and abettor may not be convicted of first degree premeditated murder under the
natural and probable consequences doctrine.â

This breach of contract action is before
this court—pursuant to our diversity jurisdiction—a
second time. As a refresher, Lawrence J. Hess, an attorney,
had worked on a number of medical-malpractice cases before
his law firm, Kanoski & Associates, P.C. (“K&A”),1 ter-
1 Per Appellee’s Rule 26.1 Disclosure Statement of December 5, 2014, Kanoski

[¶1.] This appeal requires us to construe statutes of limitation affecting childhood sexual abuse claims against entities that allegedly failed to take steps to safeguard children from known or suspected molesters. Plaintiffs allege that they were sexually abused sometime during the late 1950s through the early 1970s by certain priests, brothers, nuns, and others when they were children attendi

Kayunta Johnson-Winters, as succession representative of appellant Sammy Perry, contends that the District Court erred in granting summary judgment to appellee Redner’s Markets, Inc., with regard to Perry’s employment discrimination claims under Title VII and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA).1 Perry, an African-American man, worked at a Redner’s Markets grocery stor

Defendant Superior Court of Nevada County (SCNC) appeals a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff and former employee Emily Gallup. Gallup brought this action alleging, in part, that SCNC retaliated against her in violation of Labor Code section 1102.5, subdivision (b)1 for engaging in protected activity when she complained to her
1 Further statutory references to sections of an undesignated code

LOS ANGELES, CA – A member of the Pueblo Bishop Bloods street gang was sentenced to life (plus 10 years) in federal prison for his conviction on racketeering offenses that included the execution of a man in front of his 2-year-old son.

Rondale Young, also known as “Pueblo-Grump,” 31, of South Los Angeles, was sentenced by United States District Judge S. James Otero.

San Francisco, CA - Ellen Pao sued Kleiner Perkins on a civil rights violation theory claiming that she was discriminated against at work because of her gender and then retaliated against when she complained. She claimed that Kleiner Perkins discriminated against her because of her gender by failing to promote her and/or by terminating her employment. She claimed that Kleiner Perkins retaliated ag

Madeline Serafin (Serafin) sued her former employer Balco Properties Ltd., LLC and related individuals and entities1 (collectively Balco) alleging claims arising from her employment, including wrongful termination, harassment, and defamation. The trial court granted Balco’s motion to stay the litigation until the completion of binding arbitration based upon an arbitration agreement Serafin

Tacoma, WA - Former Deputy Fire Marshall Craig D. Hanson sued Kitsap County and Fire Chief David Lynam discrimination and retaliation theories claiming to have been discriminated against when he attempted to return to work after serving in the Army National Guard and then retaliating against him for filing a complaint by demoting him and passing over him for a promotion.

The Defendants de

¶1 On June 15, 2009, Appellant Whitaker, represented by counsel, entered a guilty plea to a charge of Distribution of a Controlled Substance in Tulsa County Case No. CF-2008-6121. Whitaker's sentencing was deferred for a period of four years, subject to terms and conditions of probation. On May 24, 2013, the State filed an Application to Accelerate Deferred Sentence, alleging Whitaker committed

Marvalyn DeCambre, M.D., appeals a judgment entered after the trial court granted special motions to strike pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 425.161 brought by defendants Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego (RCHSD), Children's Specialist San Diego (CSSD) and the Regents of the University of California (Regents) (collectively, defendants), and also sustained defendants' demurrers to certa

WASHINGTON, DC – Jeffrey Henry Williamson, 49, of Las Vegas, Nev., was sentenced to 8 years in prison for making threats against a federal law enforcement officer.

Williamson was found guilty of the charge by a jury in December 2014, following a trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He was sentenced by the Honorable Rosemary M. Collyer. Upon com

New Brunswick, NJ - Retired Edison police captain Michael Palko sued the township of Edison, the township police chief, Thomas Brya, and other officials with political retaliation and age discrimination claiming that he retired in July 2013 after 35 years on the force because "Chief Bryan was gunning for him."

The Defendants admitted that Palko was transferred several times to different c

Appellant J.L., a juvenile, appeals the disposition order of commitment to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department in which the trial court found he engaged in delinquent conduct by committing indecency with a child. Through one issue, he contends the trial court reversibly erred in its instruction to the jury. We will affirm the judgment of the trial court.
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The district att

Philadelphia, PA - Coulter Loeb, a photojournalism student, sued the City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia police officer George J. Gaspar, Jr. on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983 seeking damages for having been arrested for disorderly conduct for photographing office Gaspar removing an overnight camper from an upscale public park.

The charges against Loeb were eventua

Defendant and appellant Burke Williams, Inc. (defendant) appeals from a judgment entered in favor of plaintiff and respondent Domaniqueca Dickson (plaintiff) on her claims under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) (Gov. Code, § 12900 et seq.1) for failure to take reasonable steps necessary to prevent sexual harassment or discrimination (§ 12940, subd. (k)), and the trial co