The trouble began when Michael Barrett, a Salt Lake County employee, helped a colleague pursue a sexual harassment complaint against her boss. The complaint was entirely warranted but some in management apparently didn’t like the publicity. According to Mr. Barrett, his superiors thought him a noisy troublemaker and began a campaign to have him discharged or demoted. After he was demoted Mr. Bar

This is an interlocutory appeal. Azin Lotfi sued her employer, Cheniere Energy, Inc., claiming her employment was wrongly terminated; she also sued two officers of the company, Charif Souki and Greg Rayford, for tortious interference with her employment at Cheniere. Souki and Rayford filed a motion to dismiss

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Lotfi’s claims against them under chapter 27 of the Texas Civil Practic

Michael Young brought this employment discrimination case claiming race discrimination and retaliation against his former employer Builders Steel Company ("Builders Steel"). The district court 1 granted summary judgment to Builders Steel on both claims. Young now appeals. We affirm.

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Young, an African-American male, was employed with Builders Steel for twenty-six years. Builders Ste

Vista Quality Markets (“Vista”) appeals the trial court’s order denying its motion to compel arbitration. We reverse and remand to the trial court with instructions to enter an order compelling arbitration.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Vista is engaged in the business of operating grocery stores in El Paso, Texas, and is a non-subscriber to workers’ compensation. In Febr

The State of Texas charged Mark Augustin Castellano, age 39, with second-degree murder for the 2012 death of Michelle Warner, age 31, whose body was found in a West Texas grave between Midland and Odessa. The State claimed that Castellano killed Ms. Warner in the bedroom of their home in Houston.

Defendant claimed self-defense.

The State claimed that he killed Ms. Warner, took h

Neal W. Dias, a former employee of Verizon New England Inc., appeals the district court's denial of his motion for a new trial, filed in the wake of a defendant's jury verdict on Dias's claim that Verizon discharged him and subjected him to a hostile work environment in retaliation for engaging in activity protected by Massachusetts antidiscrimination law. Dias says that the jury instructions and

We are asked to decide whether federal or state privilege law governs the admissibility of evidence of an alleged settlement reached during mediation of federal and state law claims. We conclude that federal privilege law governs, but that the County waived any available privilege; therefore, we affirm the district court’s enforcement of the settlement agreement reached in mediation.

I.

Plaintiff–appellant Jeremy Hoven is a former at-will employee of Walgreen Co. (“Walgreen”). He is also the holder of a Michigan license to carry a concealed weapon. On May 8, 2011, gun-wielding robbers entered Walgreen while Hoven was working the overnight shift. After one of the masked individuals pointed a gun at Hoven, Hoven drew his concealed weapon and fired it multiple times. Eight day

¶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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Guadalupe Batencourt sued Atwood Distributing Company on an American With Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 121001, violation theory.

The Court docket sheet for this case contained the following docket entries:

11/14/2012 1 CIVIL COVER SHEET by Guadalupe Betancourt (Monismith, Pete) (Entered: 11/14/2012)

11/14/2012 2 COMPLAINT against Atwood Distributing, LP (paid $350

Guadalupe Batencourt sued Woodland Park Hospitality, Inc. on an Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 121001, violation theory claiming to have been discriminated against by Defendant.

The court docket sheet for this case contained the following entries:

02/22/2013 1 COMPLAINT against Woodland Park Hospitality, Inc. (paid $350 filing fee; receipt number 1085-1119294)

Guadalupe Betancourt sued Burning Hills Hotel claiming that Defendant violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 12101 which provides:



(1) physical or mental disabilities in no way diminish a person’s right to fully participate in all aspects of society, yet many people with physical or mental disabilities have been precluded from doing so because of dis

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.

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

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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

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

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

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