In three issues, Appellant Uneeda Reed challenges the trial court’s summary judgment rendered in favor of Appellee Cook Children’s Medical Center, Inc. (CCMC) on her claims for racial discrimination and retaliation. We will affirm.

1See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.

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II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Reed, an African-American female, began working at CCMC in May 2006. ... More...   $0 (05-29-2014 - TX)

Must an employer allow employees more than six months’ sick leave or face liability under the Rehabilitation Act? Unsurprisingly, the answer is almost always no.

By all accounts, Grace Hwang was a good teacher suffering a wretched year. An assistant professor at Kansas State University, she signed a written oneyear contract to teach classes over three academic terms (fall, spring, and sum... More...   $0 (05-29-2014 - KS)

Plaintiff and appellant Conchita Franco Serri brought this action against her former employer (defendant and respondent Santa Clara University (the University)) and other individually named defendants after the University terminated her employment. Serri had worked as the University’s Director of Affirmative Action since 1992. The University terminated her employment in 2007 because she failed t... More...   $0 (05-28-2014 - CA)

BIRMINGHAM, AL - The former Clay County jail administrator to four years in prison for using his authority to sexually abuse or otherwise deprive inmates of their civil rights, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr. and Alabama Bureau of Investigation Division Chief Neil G. Tew.

JEFFREY SCOTT COTNEY, 48, of Ashland, pleaded guilty in ... More...   $0 (05-28-2014 - AL)

Dr. Collie Trant is the former Chief Medical Examiner for the State of
Oklahoma. Trant joined the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner at a time the
office was recovering from a series of public scandals. But Trant soon lost the
confidence of the Oklahoma Board of Medicolegal Investigations, to whom he
reported, and was terminated. Trant filed suit in Oklahoma state court alleging ... More...   $0 (05-28-2014 - OK)

New York, NY - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HECTOR MONSEGUR, a/k/a “Sabu,” formerly a leading member of a group of sophisticated computer hackers known as “LulzSec,” was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to time served and one year of supervised release for his participation in computer hacking activity that victim... More...   $0 (05-27-2014 - NY)

While campaigning for a second term, President George W. Bush was scheduled to spend the night at a Jacksonville, Oregon, cottage. Local law enforcement officials permitted a group of Bush supporters and a group of protesters to assemble on opposite sides of a streetalong the President’s motorcade route. When the President made a last-minute decision to have dinner at the outdoor patio area of t... More...   $0 (05-27-2014 - DC)

In this interlocutory appeal, the County of El Paso, Texas and the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department (collectively referred to as “the County”) challenge an order denying their plea to the jurisdiction. TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 51.014 (a)(8) (West 2008). We affirm.

BACKGROUND

On June 21, 2010, Appellee Lisa Latimer sued the County under the Texas Whistleblower Act.... More...   $0 (05-21-2014 - TX)

Deanira Morales appeals from the trial court’s judgment dismissing her whistleblower-retaliation lawsuit against her former employer, the Cotulla Independent School District. She contends the trial court abused its discretion by dismissing her case for want of prosecution and by denying her motion to reinstate. Because we hold that the trial court abused its discretion by

1 The Honorable ... More...   $0 (05-21-2014 - TX)

Plaintiff Sean Gloster filed an employment-related lawsuit against his former employer, defendant Melody Toyota (Melody), Melody’s parent corporation, other employees, and a third party. Although Melody and its related defendants warned Gloster prior to his filing of the lawsuit they would insist on arbitration under his employment agreement, the defendants waited until a year after the complain... More...   $0 (05-21-2014 - CA)

¶1 On February 25, 2013, Chester Rouse filed a wrongful termination suit against the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) and Daniel S. Sullivan. The petition alleged GRDA and Mr. Sullivan terminated Mr. Rouse on February 17, 2012, in retaliation for filing an overtime complaint under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § 201 through § 219. Retaliation for filing such a complaint is forb... More...   $0 (05-20-2014 - OK)

Escape Media Group (Escape) operates an Internet service called Grooveshark through which users may upload and retrieve digital music files. UMG Recordings, Inc. owns an extensive music catalog that includes songs by such artists as Buddy Holly, The Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye, and The Who. In 2010, UMG sued Escape in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, alleging Escape infringed on copyrights a... More...   $0 (05-14-2014 - CA)

Defendants Stephen Edward Hajek and Loi Tan Vo were convicted of the 1991 murder of Su Hung (Pen. Code, § 187)1 as to which lying-in-wait and torture-murder special circumstances were found true (former § 190.2, subd. (a)(15), (18)). Additionally, defendants were convicted of four counts of premeditated attempted murder (§§ 664/187), one count of kidnapping (§ 207, subd. (a)), three counts o... More...   $0 (05-05-2014 - CA)

A jury convicted defendant Calvin Dion Chism of the first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a) (count one))1 and attempted robbery (§§ 211/664 (count two)) of Richard Moon, and the second degree robbery of Jung Ja Chung (§ 211 (count three)).2 The jury found true the special circumstance allegation that the murder was committed during the attempted commission of a robbery (§ 190.2, subd... More...   $0 (05-05-2014 - CA)

On January 25, 2012, Cung Hnin (“Hnin”) filed a four-count Complaint against his former

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employer TOA (USA), LLC (“TOA”) alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000, et seq., pursuant to the district court’s original jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. § 1331, and two state law claims pursuant to the dis-trict court’s suppleme... More...   $0 (05-05-2014 - IN)

Dr. Armand Santoro appeals the district court’s order granting the motion by Accenture Federal Services, LLC (Accenture) to compel arbitration. Because we agree with the district court that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank) does not invalidate the arbitration agreement between Accenture and Santoro, we affirm.

I.

Santoro began hi... More...   $0 (05-05-2014 - VA)

Charles Davis has been employed as a custodian with Unified School District No. 500 (“USD 500”) since 1991. In 2007, the school board considered a recommendation to terminate his employment when he was found lying naked on his stomach, sunbathing on the roof of the elementary school where he worked. Instead, the Board decided upon a suspension without pay for thirty days and demoted him from h... More...   $0 (05-05-2014 - KS)

In this action alleging violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654, plaintiff-appellant Scott Bellone appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of his former employer, the Southwick-Tolland Regional School District. He argues, among other things, that the district court overlooked several genuine issues of material fact, misap... More...   $0 (05-02-2014 - MA)

Dismissal of a civil complaint is said to be voluntary when requested by the plaintiff and involuntary when ordered by the court. A dismissal may be partial, as in this case, where plaintiff Maureen deSaulles (Employee) agreed to dismiss two of her seven causes of action with prejudice in exchange for a payment of $23,500 from defendant Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (Employer). A ci... More...   $0 (05-02-2014 - CA)

Plaintiff and appellant Gregory Saffer worked for Washington Mutual Bank (WaMu) between May 2007 and January 2008. In September 2008, WaMu failed. In short order, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was appointed as receiver for the bank, and JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JPMC) purchased some of WaMu’s assets and liabilities. The FDIC published notices informing creditors that claims ... More...   $0 (04-29-2014 - CA)

After a suspicious death in a New Mexico prison cell, police eventually identified Paul Smalls, the victim’s cellmate, and two other men as the perpetrators of murder. Their scheme was to smother the victim, and then claim he died of an asthma attack. At trial, the government pointed to “signature quality” evidence that Smalls had threatened his asthmatic ex-wife in a similar fashion five mo... More...   $0 (04-28-2014 - NM)

The only issue before us is whether defendant John Lynn Tirey is statutorily barred under Penal Code section 4852.01, subdivision (d), from petitioning for a certificate of rehabilitation. (All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise noted.) We agree with defendant that the statute barring persons convicted of crimes under section 288, subdivision (a), from petitioning ... More...   $0 (04-25-2014 - CA)

Patricia Banks sued her former employer, the Chicago Board of Education, and her former supervisor, Florence Gonzales, alleging race discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related violations of federal and state law. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants on all of Banks’s claims. Twenty‐nine days after the district<... More...   $0 (04-24-2014 - IL)

Plaintiff-Appellant Scott Wolfe (“Wolfe”) appeals the district court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee BNSF Railway Company (“BNSF”) on Wolfe’s claims under Montana Code Annotated (“MCA”) § 39-2-703. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for further proceedings.

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EUGENE, OR – On Wednesday, April 16, 2014, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Mark Timothy Ellis, 38, of Oregon City, Oregon, for making a fraudulent claim to the United States and for filing a false lien against a federal employee to serve 12 months and one day in prison and three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay $311,459 in restitution.

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