Retaliation Law
 
Camille Mae Kramer v. Wasatch County Sheriff's Office

Camille Kramer sued the Wasatch County Sheriff’s Department, her former employer, for sexual harassment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. She appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Wasatch County on all claims. We affirm summary judgment as to the § 1983 claim but reverse on the Title VII claim, which we remand for trial for t

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State of Utah v. Dennis Lingmann

¶1 Defendant Dennis Lingmann was arrested in 2008 for multiple sex offenses involving a minor. While awaiting trial in the Salt Lake County Jail, he offered his cellmate (Cellmate) $2,000 to kill the minor and her family. Cellmate contacted

1. The Honorable Russell W. Bench, Senior Judge, sat by special assignment as authorized by law. See generally Utah Code Jud. Admin. R. 11-201(6).

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Nora Chaib v. State of Indiana

Appellant, Nora Chaib, sued her former employer, the State of Indiana, alleging employment discrimination and retaliation. In particular, Chaib, who is a

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female United States citizen of French national origin, alleges that, while working as a corrections officer for the Indiana Department of Correction (“IDOC”), she was subjected to discrimination and a host

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Mark T. Fahlen v. Sutter Central Valley Hospitals, et al.

In Westlake Community Hosp. v. Superior Court (1976) 17 Cal.3d 465 (Westlake), we held that, before a physician may bring a common law tort action directed against a hospital’s quasi-judicial decision to terminate the physician’s staff privileges, he or she must first exhaust all internal hospital procedures to reverse the decision, and, if this fails, must prevail in court in a mand

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Scott Trujillo v. Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. d/b/a GDX Automotive, Inc. f/k/a GDX North America, Inc.

Plaintiff Scott Trujillo appeals (for a second time) from the entry of summary judgment in favor of his former employer, defendant Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. (Henniges), with respect to his claim of retaliatory discharge in violation of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3(a), and the Michigan Elliott- Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA), Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 37.2701. A

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Jared Rapp v. Robert Dutcher

Plaintiffs Jared Rapp and Moti Goldring jointly own a condominium in the City of East Lansing, Michigan, and rented it out without a landlord license in violation of certain municipal ordinances. As a result, the City issued plaintiffs 173 citations. The state court held plaintiffs responsible for all citations and ordered them to pay $45,480 in fines. While the state court proceedings were ongoin

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Rakiea McCaskill v. State of Indiana

Rakiea McCaskill (“McCaskill”) appeals her conviction for Class A misdemeanor intimidation.1

We reverse and remand with instructions.

ISSUE

Whether there was sufficient evidence to support McCaskill’s conviction for Class A misdemeanor intimidation beyond a reasonable doubt.

FACTS

McCaskill had a relationship with Tamika Matlock’s (â€

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Fernando Montes v. Mastec North America, Inc.

Fernando Montes and his wife appeal a final summary judgment against them in favor of Mastec North America, Inc. The circuit court lawsuit arose from

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personal injuries sustained by Mr. Montes, a condominium security guard, in 2008 when a ladder owned or used by Mastec allegedly fell on him, with resulting medical expenses exceeding $100,000. The final summary judgment was based on

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State of Utah v. Eric Millerberg

The State of Utah charged Eric Millerberg, age 38, with child abuse homicide, unlawful sexual contact with a minor, obstruction of justice and desecration of a dead body in the death of a teenage baby sitter (Alexis Rasmussen, age 16) who he gave a lethal dose of drugs during a night of drugs and sex that also included Defendant's wife in 2011. Defendant dumped the girl's body in the woods of nort

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Randall Lykins v. Certainteed Corporation; Saint-Gobain Corporation

Plaintiff-Appellant Randall Lykins appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment on his retaliatory discharge claim. Lykins v. CertainTeed Corp. (“Lykins I”), No. 11-2133, 2012 WL 5471254 (D. Kan. Nov. 9, 2012). He also appeals the district court’s reversal of the magistrate judge’s award of sanctions for discovery abuses by Defendants. Lykins v. CertainTe

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State of Nebraska v. Juan E. Castaneda

Juan E. Castaneda was convicted of several charges arising from three shootings that occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, Nebraska Advance Sheets

STATE v. CASTANEDA 291

Cite as 287 Neb. 289

November 12, 2008. We affirm Castaneda’s convictions in all respects, but conclude that the sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole imposed upon Castaneda were uncon

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In Re Jones v. Samora, Clerk & Treasurer of the Town of Center.

¶1 This case concerns a contested March 19, 2013, recall election in the Town ofCenter, Colorado. Herman D. Sisneros, Edward W. Garcia, and Geraldine Martinez were elected to replace three recalled municipal officers: Mayor Susan M. Banning, Trustee John Faron, and Trustee Maurice C. Jones, respectively. Following a recount, Maurice C. Jones and Citizen Center, a Colorado non-profit corpor

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Vicki Couch v. Patrick R. Donahoe

Plaintiff Vicki Couch appeals the district court=s grant of summary judgment to Patrick Donahoe, the U. S. Postmaster General, on her claims of employment discrimination based on gender and race, hostile work environment, and retaliation. We affirm.

Couch, an African-American female, is a permanent employee of the United States Postal Service (USPS), where she has worked since 1993. Over th

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Ronald Ayers v. Board of Regents University of Texas System

Appellant Ronald Ayers filed this wrongful termination suit against his former employer—the University of Texas at San Antonio ("UTSA")—and various UTSA administrators. Following a series of pre-trial motions, the district court entered final judgment in favor of Appellees. Appellant challenges the dismissal of his First Amendment, substantive due process, and procedural due process

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Enio R. Rivera v. Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority

24 Plaintiffs Enio Rivera and Michael Talton, employees of Lift Line, Inc., a
25 subsidiary of Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (“RGRTA”),
26 appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western
27 District of New York (Larimer, J.), granting the summary judgment motion of
28 RGRTA and dismissing the plaintiffs’ claims of

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Kendale L. Adams v. City of Indianapolis

These related cases raise dozens of claims of illegal discrimination in the promotion process used by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the Indianapolis Fire Department. The complaints are sprawling and the procedural history is a bit convoluted; we have simplified the presentation of the issues. A large group of black police officers and firefighters sued the City of Indianapoli

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Jaryl Ellis v. Robert Houston

Five African American officers who worked in the maximum security Nebraska State Penitentiary brought this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 against five supervisors for race based harassment and retaliation. They seek both injunctive relief and monetary damages. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants after examining the evidence "as if there were but a single pl

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Nicole Ponte v. Steelcase, Inc.

Nicole Ponte appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of her former employer, Steelcase Inc., on her claims under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B that (1) she was subject to sexual harassment while employed there, and (2) she was terminated in retaliation for her reports of such harassment. We apply the but-for causation standard a

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Carol Cheal v. El Camino Hospital

Plaintiff Carol Cheal brought this action for age discrimination against her former employer, defendant El Camino Hospital. Defendant successfully prevailed upon the trial court to grant summary judgment in its favor despite numerous materially disputed facts. As too often happens, the merits of the case were obscured to the point of invisibility in the deluge of statements, counter-statements and

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Vimala Agrawal v. Anthony Foxx

Vimala Agrawal is a long-time employee of the Federal Aviation
Administration (“FAA”) at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma. In 2007, she applied for seven different supervisory engineer
positions with the FAA, but was not selected for any of the positions. She
subsequently filed a complaint against the Department of Transportation alleging

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David Pierce v. Cotuit Fire District

Plaintiff-appellant David Pierce, former Captain of the Cotuit, Massachusetts Fire Department, brought a complaint against the Department, the Fire Chief, and the Board of Fire Commissioners, alleging political discrimination in violation of the First Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983, whistleblowing retaliation in violation of the Massachusetts Whistleblower Act, and tortious interference with co

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Tigist Ryals v. American Airlines, Inc.

Tigist Ryals appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment for American Airlines in her employment discrimination case. Finding that the district court correctly found that no genuine issue of material fact remained for trial and that judgment was proper as a matter of law, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Tigist Ryals filed an action for employment discriminat

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Jamilya Pina v. The Children's Place a/k/a The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. and Jean Raymond

Jamilya Pina ("Pina") appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of her former employer, The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. ("TCP"), and TCP District Manager Jean Raymond ("Raymond"). Pursuing claims of employment discrimination and retaliation, Pina asserts that she was fired, harassed, and not rehired on the basis of race in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and M

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Jane Kay Dukowitz v. Hannon Security Services

Respondent Hannon Security Services (“Hannon”) terminated appellant Jane Kay Dukowitz from her position as a security officer. In this appeal, Dukowitz presents two legal questions for our consideration. The first question is whether the public-policy exception to the employment-at-will rule applies to a termination resulting from an employee’s application for unemployment benef

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Sagebrush Resources, LLC v. Daryl Peterson

[¶1] Sagebrush Resources, LLC, appeals from a summary judgment dismissing with prejudice its action for trespass and for injunctive relief against Daryl, Larry, and Galen Peterson, determining the action was frivolous and not made in good faith, and awarding the Petersons $23,729 in attorney fees. Sagebrush argues the district court abused its discretion in deciding Sagebrush's claims were friv

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