While serving as the Chief of Police in Drew, Mississippi, Anthony Gibson reported Mayor Jeffrey Kilpatrick to outside law enforcement agencies for misuse of the city gasoline card. Months later, Kilpatrick began issuing written reprimands to Gibson for a panoply of alleged deficiencies. Gibson subsequently filed a lawsuit alleging unconstitutional retaliation as well as state tort law claims. Kil

Appellee Debra Nicholas sued appellant The San Antonio Water System (“SAWS�) for retaliation under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act based upon two alleged adverse employment actions: SAWS terminated her employment and SAWS refused to consider her or offer her employment for other positions with the company that she applied for after her employment was terminated. Nicholas claimed both

This is an appeal from a directed verdict in favor of appellees Bell Aerospace Services, Inc. (BellAero), Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. (BHTI), and Textron, Inc. (collectively, Bell) in a Sabine Pilot claim brought by appellant 1See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.

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Michael Prieto. Sabine Pilot Serv., Inc. v. Hauck, 687 S.W.2d 733, 735 (Tex. 1985). We affirm.

Background

Prieto wa

Plaintiff Ruby Cornejo filed this action for damages for violations of the California Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) (Gov. Code, § 8547 et seq.)1 in May

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1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Government Code.

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2010. She alleged that as a result of her reports starting in 1999 the practices and policies of the Department of Social Services (t

Appellant, Raymond Michael Lee, sued his former employer, the Harris County Hospital District (“the District�), for discrimination, retaliation, and aiding and abetting discrimination under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (“TCHRA�). The trial court dismissed his discrimination and aiding and abetting

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claims on the District’s motion for summary judgment, and a jur

This § 1983 action comes to us on an expedited appeal from the Eastern District of New York following dismissal on a 12(b)(6) motion. In March 2010, Sharon Dorsett, the mother of Jo’Anna Bird, acting as administratrix of Bird’s estate, filed a complaint against the County of Nassau and various of its officers seeking damages for Bird’s death. Dorsett’s attorney in that action, Frederick B

Nikisha Harris sued Alisha Hospitality, Inc. on a wrongful termination theory.

The Pre-Trail Order provided in part:

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Plaintiff began her employment with Defendant in September of 2008 as a front desk representative at Defendant’s La Quinta Inn & Suites, located near 41St Street and Sheridan Road in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Defendant approved Plaintiff’s request for FM

Former Atlantic City Police Chief John Mooney sued the City of Atlantic City, New Jersey on a retaliation theory claiming that he was demoted after trying to blow the whistle on misconduct. He claimed that the City violated New Jersey's whistleblower protection provisions when it sought to demote him. Mooney retired in 2004 after 37 years of service.

Plaintiff also claimed that Mayor Lor

James Ellis alleged that the Shelby County Land Bank Department retaliated against him for complaining about discrimination against him. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the Land Bank. We affirm.

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James Ellis, an African-American male, began working at the Shelby County Support Services Department as a custodian in 1991. He worked his way up to a supervisory

¶1 This case concerns a claim that the Berryhill Fire Protection District wrongfully terminated the employment of Steven King for his efforts to stop a "training exercise" that involved the burning of structures owned by the fire chief. The trial court believed that the circumstances surrounding the fire chief's decision to burn the structures in question created a factual issue over whether this

1. Debra Wright is a resident of Canadian County, Oklahoma and the mother of K.A., a minor. K.A. was a student at Yukon Public Schools during the 20 10-2011 school year. K.A. is seventeen years of age and is currently attending her senior year of high school at Perry High School in Perry, Oklahoma.

2. Dana Soupene is a resident of Canadian County, Oklahoma and the mother of S.E., a minor.

Christina Agola is an attorney practicing primarily employment law in the Western District of New York. She has a long disciplinary history in the courts of this Circuit. See, e.g., In re Agola, 484 F. Appʹx 594 (2d Cir. 2012) (summary order) (failing to comply with scheduling orders); Rankin v. City of Niagara Falls, No. 09� cv�974�A, 2013 WL 1501682 (W.D.N.Y. Apr. 11, 2013) (misrepresenti

Appellant Raymond McArdle ("McArdle") is a former teacher in the public schools of the town of Dracut, Massachusetts. He claims, among other things, that Dracut improperly handled his request for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, 29 U.S.C. § 2612 ("FMLA") and forced him to resign in retaliation for seeking such leave. The district court granted summary judgment dismissing all of McAr

This Title VII case arises out of alleged sexual harassment by Chuck Wolfe, the superintendent of an all-male crew on a construction site operated by Boh Bros. Construction Company (“Boh Brothers�). During a three-day jury trial, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC�) presented evidence that Wolfe subjected Kerry Woods, an iron worker on Wolfe’s crew, to almost-daily verbal

PARTIES, JURISDICTION AND VENUE

1. Plaintiff Jacquelyn Allen is a resident of Tulsa, Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma.

2. Defendant Dish Network, LLC is a foreign limited liability company doing business in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.

3. The Plaintiff was an employee of Defendants as defined by state and federal law.

4. The events giving rise to this action occurred

Following a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of using fire to commit a felony, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(1), and two counts of arson, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 844(i). He was sentenced to 430 months' imprisonment. Defendant now appeals his conviction and sentence.

BACKGROUND

Prior to his conviction, Defendant was a real estate investor who owned severa

Jessica Cuellar alleges that her secondary employer, Keppel Amfels, L.L.C. (“Keppel Amfels�), violated § 2615(a)(1) of the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA�) by discouraging her primary employer, staffing agency Perma-Temp Personnel Services, Inc. (“Perma-Temp�), from seeking her reinstatement after an FMLA-authorized maternity leave. The district court granted summary judgment in favo

David Demers is a tenured associate professor at Washington State University. He brought suit alleging that university administrators retaliated against him in violation of the First Amendment for distributing a short pamphlet and drafts from an in-progress book. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants, finding that the pamphlet and draft were distributed pursuant to Demersâ

The People of the State of California charged Paul Roger Moore, age 49, with first-degree murder of Robert Ayala, age 43, on July 16, 2011. Ayala was the foreman of the Moore Brothers rice farming operation in Colusa County, California. He was killed by bomb planted when he turned on an irrigation pump.

Defense counsel claimed that Paul's bother Peter was the one who killed Ayala.

In 2007, citing “uncommonly well-settled case law,� we held that the First Amendment is violated when the state coerces an individual to attend a religion-based drug or alcohol treatment program. Inouye v. Kemna, 504 F.3d 705, 712, 716 (9th Cir. 2007). Plaintiff Barry Hazle is an atheist who, over his numerous objections, was forced as a condition of parole to participate in a residential drug

The question presented is whether to issue a writ of mandamus to resolve in favor of the defendants this long-lived litigation under the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS�)—a statute, passed in 1789, that was rediscovered and revitalized by the courts in recent decades to permit aliens to sue for alleged serious violations of human rights occurring abroad. The statute was first deployed in 1980 again

Named plaintiffs David Hendleman and Anne Aaronson appeal from the order of the trial court denying their motion for certification of a class of tenants at the Los Altos Apartments in the context of their lawsuit against the landlord. Plaintiffs brought this action alleging the landlord failed to repair and maintain the property in a safe and habitable condition over a period of 10 months, unlawfu

When litigation goes awry, lawyers sometimes scramble to find a scapegoat. So it is here: having conspicuously failed to protect the record, the plaintiff's lawyers attempt to shift the blame to their opposing counsel. Concluding, as we do, that this diversionary tactic lacks force, we affirm the district court's denial of the plaintiff's motion for relief from judgment.

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After filing a worker’s compensation claim, Appellant Kim Burt filed suit against her former employer, Andrews County Hospital District doing business as Permian Regional Medical Center (the Hospital), Appellee, alleging retaliatory discharge under Chapter 451 of the Texas Labor Code and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Burt now appeals the trial court’s summary judgment in favor

Jeff Edward Woods sued The City of Norman on a wrongful termination theory claiming:

1. At all relevant times herein, Plaintiff was and now is a resident of the City of Norman, Cleveland County, State of Oklahoma.

2. At all relevant times herein, Defendant The City of Norman was and now is a municipal corporation located in Cleveland County, State of Oklahoma. Jurisdiction and Ve