Vernon James Hill sued Fox 23 News, KOKI and Newport Television, LLC claiming:

1. Plaintiff is a resident of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, and the Defendant does business therein, and all acts or omissions occurred therein, thus jurisdiction and venue are present.

2. That on or about December 7, 2011, Defendant published the name of the Plaintiff, and a photograph of the Plaintiff on t... More...   $1 (02-16-2013 - OK)

Thomas Hayden Barnes sued Valdosta State University President Ronald Zaccari on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming that his First Amendment Rights were violated by Zaccari when he was expelled from the university for expressing his opinions in opposition to the construction of two parking garages on campus.

Plaintiff believed that the university should purue m... More...   $50000 (02-16-2013 - GA)

Appellees Frazier Caudle, Nikeith Goins, William James, Sholanda Miller and Donald Smalls (collectively, appellees) sued the District of Columbia (District), their employer, for retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. (Title VII). During closing argument, their counsel made four inappropriate statements—the last three of which occurred after the ... More...   $0 (02-16-2013 - DC)

Jenna Wood sued her former employer SatCom Marketing, LLC ("SatCom") alleging violations of the Minnesota Whistleblower Act, Minnesota Human Rights Act, common law of wrongful termination, and Fair Labor Standards Act. Finding Wood had failed to establish a prima facie case of retaliation under each statute and the common law, the district court1 granted summary judgment in favor of SatCom. We aff... More...   $0 (02-13-2013 - MN)

James has been an employee of Hyatt Regency Chicago (“Hyatt”) since 1985. In April 2007, James took a leave of absence due to an eye injury that occurred outside of work. James filed suit in 2009 claiming that Hyatt violated his rights under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq., as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et se... More...   $0 (02-13-2013 - IL)

Laura Conroy filed this Title VII lawsuit against her employer, the United States Forest Service, after it (among other things) filled an open position with a male employee, instead of her. The district court excluded the testimony of Ms. Conroy’s two experts and granted summary judgment to the Forest Service. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm.

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The Forest... More...   $0 (02-12-2013 - UT)

Appellant, Brian Stanton, seeks review of the Florida Commission on Human Relations’ final order dismissing his whistle-blower complaint filed against appellee, the Florida Department of Health. The Commission ruled it lacked jurisdiction to investigate the claim under Florida’s “Whistle-blower’s Act” (“the Act”) found in sections 112.3187 through 112.31895, Florida Statutes (2011). ... More...   $0 (02-08-2013 - FL)

Plaintiff Allstate Sweeping, LLC (Allstate) is owned and operated by two white women: Martha Krueger and Barbara Hollis. In January 2006 it began performing pressure-washing services at Denver International Airport (DIA) under a contract with the City and County of Denver (Denver). Although the contract term was through July 2008, it was terminated by Denver on July 1, 2007. Defendant Calvin Black... More...   $0 (02-08-2013 - CO)

Joshua Mandevill sued Airflo Cooling Technologies, LLC on a wrongful termination theory.

Mr. Mandevill began working for Defendant Airflo on August 1, 2008. He sustained an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of his employment on January 15, 2009. He waited several weeks before submitting a formal written notice of injury as he was hopeful his symptoms would dissipate. As t... More...   $0 (02-07-2013 - OK)

Janet Lundquist commenced this action alleging that her former employer, the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine (the “School of Medicine”), violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by refusing to accommodate her mental and physical disabilities and by responding to her requests for accommodation with hostile actions that caused her constructive discharge. See 42 U.... More...   $0 (02-06-2013 - SD)

Maria Elena Martinez sued her employer, AA Foundries, Inc., under Chapter 21 of the Texas Labor Code, alleging claims for hostile work environment and retaliation. See TEX. LABOR CODE ANN. §§ 21.051, 21.055, 21.125 (West 2006). The jury found against Martinez on her claims, and the trial court rendered a take-nothing judgment in favor of AA Foundries. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.More...   $0 (02-02-2013 - TX)

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This case arises from an employee grievance at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC. After succeeding in arbitration, the employee, John Horne, filed a lawsuit in state district court in 2008, in which he alleged more expansive claims arising out of the same subject matter covered in the arbitration agreement. LANL objected, claiming t... More...   $0 (01-31-2013 - NM)

[¶1] The appellant, Zack D. Koch, was terminated from his employment with HIS-Garden Inn Laramie, Inc. (Hilton) on December 10, 2009. The appellant applied for and was initially granted unemployment benefits. Hilton appealed that determination and, after a telephonic hearing where testimony and evidence was received, a hearing examiner affirmed the initial decision and found that the appellant wa... More...   $0 (01-31-2013 - WY)

Plaintiff Brian McVeigh appeals following the grant of summary judgment in favor of his former employer Recology San Francisco.1 Recology provides waste collection, recycling and disposal services to San Francisco residents and businesses. McVeigh‘s complaint alleged that Recology fired him in retaliation for his reporting possible fraud in connection with California Redemption Value payments ma... More...   $0 (01-31-2013 - CA)

In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore was killed by a stray bullet during a gang-related shooting in Boston. Appellant Shawn Drumgold was tried and convicted of Moore's murder in Massachusetts state court in the fall of 1989. After serving fourteen years of his life sentence, Drumgold moved for a new trial on the ground that exculpatory evidence had been withheld by several... More...   $0 (01-31-2013 - MA)

In a matter involving employment discrimination and First Amendment retaliation claims, Plaintiff-Appellant Edwin Garcia appeals from a September 27, 2011 final judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Thompson, C.J.), granting summary judgment to the Defendants-Appellees. Garcia, a former sergeant with the City of Hartford Police Department (“Hartford PD”)... More...   $0 (01-28-2013 - CT)

Appellant, Habib Sadid, a former tenured professor of civil engineering at Idaho State University, appeals the Industrial Commission’s Order reversing the Department of Labor Appeals Examiner’s grant of unemployment benefits to Sadid after Sadid was terminated by Idaho State University.

II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Professor Habib Sadid was a tenured professor of civil e... More...   $0 (01-24-2013 - ID)

Defendant Applied Signal Technology, Inc. (Employer) terminated its four-year employment of plaintiff John McGrory (Employee) in June 2009 after an outside investigator retained by Employer concluded that, while Employee had not discriminated against a lesbian subordinate on the basis of her sex or sexual orientation, in other ways Employee had violated Employer‟s policies on sexual harassment a... More...   $0 (01-24-2013 - CA)

For the better part of a decade, Anthony Smith sought a place on the Town of Beloit’s “tow list,” hoping to be called upon when the local police department required towing services. Chief of Police John Wilson denied these requests, and Smith (who is African-American) attributed his exclusion to racial bias. In December 2008, Wilson’s subordinates came forward with allegations that appeare... More...   $0 (01-24-2013 - WI)

William Hernandez sued Metropolitan Transit Authority on a civil rights violation claiming that Metro Trans police supervisors retaliated against them when he complained about his attempts to earn a promotion.

At issue in the dispute was William Hernandez's May 2009 efforts to move up from patrolman to rangemaster for the department, a division of Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris Co... More...   $305000 (01-24-2013 - TX)

In this employment discrimination case, Roland Benavides appeals from a district court order that granted the City of Oklahoma City’s motion for summary judgment on Benavides’ claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131-12134, and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), affirm.

BACKGROUND

Benavides began working for the City as a police officer i... More...   $0 (01-24-2013 - OK)

[¶1] Jamie Fuhrmann appeals from the entry of a summary judgment in favor of Staples the Office Superstore East, Inc., by the Superior Court (York County, Fritzsche, J.) and the court’s dismissal of her claims against four individual supervisors, Christian Steppe, John LeMieux, Matthew Auger, and Annette Rodick, for whistleblower discrimination pursuant to the Whistleblowers’ Protection Act (... More...   $0 (01-20-2013 - ME)

Walker was employed as the Director of Kids First Head Start for Hitchcock under a one-year probationary contract for the 2008-09 school year. As Director, it was her job to facilitate collegial relationships between staff and communication between the Superintendent, staff, parents, and the Head Start Policy Council.

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In February 2009, Walker filed a complaint wi... More...   $0 (01-18-2013 - TX)

Plaintiff-Appellant John Daniel was terminated by his former employer, Defendant-Appellee Universal ENSCO, Incorporated (“UEI”), in a reduction-inforce. He filed suit against UEI for discrimination on the basis of age, religion, and national origin, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.... More...   $0 (01-17-2013 - TX)

Bill Gregory sued Board of County Commissioners of Tulsa County on a discrimination theory claiming:

1. Plaintiff is a citizen of the United States of America and a resident of Rogers County, Oklahoma.

2 Defendant Board of County Commissioners is a governmental entity conducting regular activity in Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma Defendant regularly employs more than fifteen (15)... More...   $42500 (01-16-2013 - OK)