Syed Alam brought suit against Miller Brewing Company and MillerCoors LLC under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., alleging that MillerCoors, at the direction of Miller Brewing, refused to do business with him in retaliation for a discrimination suit previously filed by Alam against Miller Brewing.1 The district court dismissed the su

Plaintiff Carol Ann Smith appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of her former employer, the Perkins Board of Education, as well as its superintendent and the principal of the middle school at which she was a teacher. Plaintiff alleges that she was terminated on account of her age in violation of Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.14, that she was denied reasonable accommodat

Christine Lucarell sued Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company on breach of contract, fraudulent misrepresentation, invasion of privacy, retaliation and constructive discharge theories claiming that Nationwide used predatroy tactics to lure her into working as an agent for the company, and then setting her up to fail.

Nationwide denied wrongdoing and claimed that Lucarell took loans and gran

Melvin and Idella Folkerts are the legal guardians and conservators of their adult son, Travis Michael Folkerts. In May 2008, Travis1 was investigated and charged with sexual assault. Alleging deprivation of his constitutional and statutory rights, the Folkertses sued the City of Waverly, Iowa, and Troy Schneider, an investigator with the police department. The district court2 granted summary judg

In a case of first impression, we are asked to determine whether an employee who has exhausted all permissible leave available under the Pregnancy Disability Leave Law (PDLL), Government Code section 12945,1 may nevertheless state a cause of action under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), section 12900 et seq. The superior court concluded that appellant, disabled by a high-risk

Lauren E. Summa appeals from a memorandum, order, and judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Wall, M.J.) granting summary judgment in favor of defendants Hofstra University (“Hofstra” or “the University”), David Cohen, and Melissa Connolly, and dismissing in its entirety Summa’s suit claiming sexual harassment and retaliati

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

In this action brought under the False Claims Act (Gov. Code, § 12650 et seq.),1 the qui tam plaintiffs allege that defendant Laidlaw Transit, Inc. (Laidlaw), and its successor in interest, First Student, Inc. (FSI), failed to maintain and repair the company‘s buses as required by the company‘s contract with San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). At issue here is an injuncti

On October 5, 2008, deputies of Woodbury County, Iowa, responded to a disturbance. They arrested one plaintiff at the scene; arrest warrants were issued for others within weeks. The plaintiffs sued the deputies and County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Iowa law. The deputies and County moved for summary judgment, which the district court1 denied in part. The deputies and County appeal. Having juris

Anthony Araujo filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey alleging that he was disciplined by New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, Inc. (“NJT”) in retaliation for his participation in an activity protected by the Federal Rail Safety Act, 49 U.S.C. § 20109 (“FRSA”). Specifically, Araujo reported an emotional injury after he witness

2 This appeal concerns the recurring issue of what circumstances
3 suffice to warrant a trial of a gender discrimination claim based on
4 an allegation of a hostile work environment. Plaintiff-Appellant
5 Jewanta Desardouin appeals from the December 16, 2011, judgment of the
6 United States District Court for the Western District of New York,
7 Michael Telesca, District Judge,

Velma Underwood was employed by The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) as a
detention officer at the ICE Processing Center in Aurora, Colorado. GEO terminated
her employment in 2008. Represented by counsel, Ms. Underwood sued in the
United States District Court of Colorado for unlawful employment practices. The
district court granted summary judgment in favor of GEO on Ms. Underwood’s

Tanya L. Paige worked for many years for the Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) until her retirement on May 1, 2009. On July 31, 2009,
acting pro se, she filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of
Colorado, alleging racial and religious discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5
(Title VII), and “Unlawful Employment Practices.” R.

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

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 a

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

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”)

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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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

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 112.3

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

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. S

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 payment

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 cour

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