Dillard's Inc., a national retail chain, will pay $2 million and commit to extensive, company-wide injunctive relief to settle a class action disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. At issue was Dillard's longstanding national policy and practice of requiring all employees to disclose personal and confidential

Regina Daniels, a former United Parcel Service dispatcher who worked in UPS’s Kansas City, Kansas facility, brought suit against UPS alleging discrimination based on her sex and age. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of UPS, and Daniels appeals. We conclude the district court did not err in finding (1) most of Daniels’s discrimination claims were untimely; and (2) the claims

Sarah Barton sued Mizzios, L.L.C. on a wrongful termination theory claiming:

1. That the Defendant’s correct name is Mazzio’s LLC and Defendant does business in Tulsa County, Oklahoma and all acts or omissions occurred therein, thus jurisdiction and venue are appropriate.

2. That the Plaintiff was an employee, and the Defendant an employer, as defined by state law.

3. Th

Plaintiff-Appellant Frank Brown filed this action against his former employer Defendant-Appellee ScriptPro, LLC, alleging violations of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 based on his termination in November 2008. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of ScriptPro, and Mr. Brown appeals. See Brown v

Leddrew Smith complains that the City of Niles (Michigan) interfered with his statutory right to take medical leave under the Family Medical Leave Act by failing to promote him when his supervisor retired and by eventually firing him. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendant. We affirm.

I.

From 1989 to 2010, Smith worked for the City of Niles in its utilities depa

Avery Richey, a sales manager at Power Toyota of Cerritos, was terminated from his job four weeks before the expiration of his approved medical leave under the Moore- Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act (CFRA) (Gov. Code, §§ 12945.1, 12945.2)1 because his employer believed Richey was misusing his leave by working part time in a restaurant he owned. Richey sued Power Toyota’s parent companies, Auto

This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s denial of a motion to dismiss filed by appellant The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 51.014(a)(8) (Vernon 2008). We vacate the trial court’s order denying M.D. Anderson’s plea to the jurisdiction and dismiss the case.

BACKGROUND

Appellee Maria Valdizan-Garcia went to medi

Mark Parker sied Madison County Illinois Regional Office of Education on a civil rights violation theory claiming that Defendant violated the Equal Pay Act and discriminated against her because of her sex. The claim claimed that Defendant retaliated against for complaining about how she was being treated.

Parker's annual salary was $30,742 in 2008 while her male counterpart was making

A time worn proverb teaches that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Much the same dynamic can be in play when, as in this case, a corporation abruptly cashiers a member of senior management who believes that he deserves better.

In this instance the denouement prompted a suit for age discrimination and retaliation. After a protracted trial, the jury found the employer guilty

This appeal follows the summary dismissal of a suit for

employment discrimination. The suit is based on claims of retaliatory discharge,

discrimination, and defamation. A co-worker or store manager (the parties dispute his

authority with the defendant employer) referred to a heterosexual employee as "Big Gay

Al." That name apparently comes from a popular te

Defendant Oak Park Place of Dubuque II, L.L.C. (Oak Park) appeals following an adverse jury verdict in a wrongful discharge action brought by former at-will employee Karen Dorshkind. Oak Park contends the trial court erred in determining it is against public policy to discharge an employee for reporting to a co-employee, rather than the Department of Inspections and Appeals, the falsification of d

Steve Stephens and Crissy Stephens, for the benefit of R.A.S., a minor child, appeal the trial court’s order granting Trinity Independent School District’s (TISD) plea to the jurisdiction. The Stephenses raise two issues on appeal. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

The Stephenses’ son, R.A.S., was an eleven year old intermediate school student at TISD. While in the process of exiting the s

John D. Anderson, a United States Postal Service (“USPS”) worker, suffers from asthma. While he is virtually symptom-free outside of the workplace, his asthma regularly flared up at his job as a parttime mail processor at a postal facility in Bedford Park, Illinois. Between 2002 and 2009, Anderson filed numerous Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) complaints, an Occupational Health and Sa

Dorothy Ollie brought breach of contract and tort claims against the Plano Independent School District (PISD), Tamira Griffin, individually and as the PISD’s Executive Director of Human Resources, Douglas Otto, individually and as the PISD’s Superintendent of Schools, and Tammy Richards, individually and as President of the PISD’s Board of Trustees, based on the termination of Ollie’s empl

Jarrett Hamilton, a pro se Indiana resident, appeals a district court judgment entering a jury verdict rendered in favor of General Electric Company (GE).

Hamilton filed a complaint against GE in a Kentucky state court, alleging that GE suspended him and terminated his employment in retaliation for his filing a claim of age discrimination. GE removed the case to the United States District C

The appeal in this civil action is taken from the district court’s order granting summary judgment to the Defendants-Appellees in a civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff-Appellant Kaufman brought the action alleging that the Defendants had violated his constitutional rights by arresting him without probable cause. The district court had jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 13

2 In this employment age discrimination action, ORS 659A.030, plaintiff
3 appeals from a general judgment of dismissal, ORCP 21 A, that was predicated on
4 plaintiff's failure to follow the alternative dispute resolution procedure prescribed in his
5 employee handbook. Plaintiff contends that the prescribed grievance and arbitration
6 procedure is unenforceable for three reasons: (

Appellant Practice Management Information Corporation (PMIC) appeals from a judgment in favor of its former employee, respondent Lorena Alamo, following a jury trial on Alamo‟s causes of action for pregnancy discrimination and retaliation in violation of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and wrongful termination in violation of public policy. On appeal, PMIC argues that the t

Appellants Echostar Satellite L.L.C. and Dish Network Service, L.L.C. (“Appellants”), appeal a jury verdict and judgment rendered in favor of Ray Aguilar (“Aguilar”). Appellants bring five issues: (1) legal and factual insufficiency of Aguilar’s evidence that Appellants’ uniform application of their absence control policy was a violation of Chapter 451 of the Texas Labor Code; (2) in

The plaintiff in this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeks damages from the governing body of Tazewell County and from various subordinate agencies and County officials (but we can disregard all the defendants other than the County Board, and treat the Board as the only defendant) for violating her constitutional rights. The district judge granted summary judgment for the defendants.

The plai

On Thanksgiving Day at about 9:00 PM, Mary Carroll telephoned one of her co-workers, Jim Kelliher. Hearing Ms. Carroll loudly yelling at her husband over the phone, Jim Kelliher’s wife Pat Kelliher began listening in on the call and decided to record the conversation. The call ultimately cost Carroll her job, and she sued under the Illinois eavesdropping statute for the recording and re-playing

Lakishia Hill sued her employer, the City of Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Mayor Carl Redus; and her supervisor, Robert Tucker, asserting discrimination and retaliation claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; the Arkansas Equal Pay Act, Ark. Code. Ann. § 11-4- 601; and the Arkansas Civil Rights Act (“ACRA”), Ark. Code. Ann. §§ 16-123-101 et. seq. Hill appeals the district court’s grant of 1 summary judgm

Plaintiffs-Appellants Arthur C. Hypolite (“Hypolite”), Bernard Garrett (“Garrett”), and Willie Pratt (“Pratt”) (collectively “Appellants”) appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Defendant-Appellee City of Houston, Texas (“City”) on their discrimination and retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and 42 U.S.C. §

Former Nevada County, California Family Court mediator Emily Gallup sued the Superior Court, Nevada County, California, Sean Metroka, and Thea Palmiere on a whistleblower retaliation theory claiming that she was harmed when she was fired after reporting that the court was not following state laws in its operation. She claimed that she was fired for asking questions and challenging the operation of

Angelina Povey injured her wrist while working as an attendant at the City of Jeffersonville (“Jeffersonville”) animal shelter. Jeffersonville ultimately terminated Povey’s employment. Povey brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 12101 alleging that her termination violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). The district court granted Jeffersonville’s motion for summary judgm