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

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

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

The City of Albuquerque, Martin Chavez, and Robert White (collectively, the “City”), appeal a jury verdict finding that they retaliated against Plaintiff - Appellee Judy Kelley, formerly an Albuquerque assistant city attorney, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and the New Mexico Human Rights Act (“NMHRA”), N.M. STAT. AN

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 harassme

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 allega

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

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 po

¶1 William A. Doyle appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Lehi City, Daniel Harrison, Blythe Bray, and Amanda Len Mackintosh (collectively, Appellees). Doyle claims that the district court erred in striking portions of affidavits he submitted in opposition to Appellees’ motion for summary judgment, in concluding that Harrison and Bray were entitled to

[¶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’ Prot

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

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 Ac

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)

Appellant B.S. (“Mother”) is the natural mother of M.N. (“Daughter”), a minor child. Mother had primary legal custody of Daughter until Daughter was removed from Mother’s care in accordance with a court order that transferred custody to the child’s natural father, E.N. (“Father”). Mother claims that Somerset County (the “County”), along

In Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, the Supreme Court held that a state employee may recover money damages in federal court for a state’s failure to comply with the family-care provision of the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA” or “the Act”). 538 U.S. 721, 725 (2003); see generally 29 U.S.C. § 2612(a)(1)(C). After the Supreme Court’s decision,

This is an employment discrimination case, specifically pregnancy discrimination. It is an unusual case in several respects, including that the interactions between plaintiff and defendant‟s representatives were relatively brief, over a period of less than four months; save for four in-person interviews or meetings and a handful of telephone calls, those interactions were all via email; and

Appellant Rosaena Resendez appeals from the trial court's order dismissing her suit against her former employer, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (the "Commission"), for damages under the Texas Whistleblower Act. See Tex. Gov't. Code Ann. §§ 554.001-.009 (West 2012). The Commission filed a plea to the jurisdiction, arguing that sovereign immunity had not been waived because Res

This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a motion to dismiss asserting qualified immunity. At issue is the scope of the special relationship doctrine and whether it would apply to the facts alleged to expose two human services employees to potential individual liability for the death of a seven-year-old child in foster care.1

After their son, Chandler Grafner, died while in the fo

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)

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.

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 compan

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-Ga