Plaintiff-Appellant Gary Daugherty appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees City of Toledo and Toledo’s former Mayor Carlton Finkbeiner (collectively, “the City�) on Daugherty’s Title VII and Ohio state-law race-discrimination claim and the district

Because the district court applied the incorrect standard by requiring Daugherty to me

Plaintiff-Appellant Deborah Armando brought claims under various federal employment statutes against Defendant-Appellee AT&T Mobility after AT&T Mobility fired her from her job at an AT&T call center. This appeal concerns the district court’s summary judgment disposing of Armando’s claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA�). The district court held that AT&T

Touchstone Television Productions (Touchstone) hired actress Nicollette Sheridan (Sheridan) to appear in the first season of the television series Desperate Housewives. The agreement gave Touchstone the exclusive option to renew Sheridan‟s services on an annual basis for an additional six seasons. Touchstone renewed Sheridan‟s services up to and including Season 5. During Season 5, Touchstone

ITT Educational Services is a for-profit corporation that runs “ITT Technical Institutes� in several locations throughout the United States, including Lathrop, California. Plaintiff Jason Halasa was the Lathrop Campus’s College Director for six months in 2009. The parties provide competing accounts of the end Halasa’s tenure: ITT says that Halasa was fired for exhibiting poor management sk

Plaintiff-appellant Stephanie Bucalo appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Denis R. Hurley, Judge) based on a jury verdict in favor of defendant-appellee Shelter Island Union Free School District (“the District�) in her action for age discrimination and retaliation. The district court denied Bucalo’s motion for judgment as a matter

Plaintiff-appellant Edward Donnelly, a high school teacher, sued defendantsappellees – the Greenburgh Central School District No. 7, his former employer, and three of his supervisors there (collectively “the District,� unless otherwise noted) – in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Lewis A. Kaplan, Judge). Donnelly alleged inter alia that the District d

Carmen Jean-Baptiste, age 43, dued the District of Columbia Parks and Recreation Department on a civil rights violation theory claiming that he was sexually harassed and fired in retaliation for complaining about the sexual harassment. Plaintiff began working at the Takoma Aquatic Center in Northwest Washington for $13.50 per hour in 2006. She claimed that her supvisor, Rodney Weaver, began haras

Appellee Fernando Flores brought suit against the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ("TPWD") for retaliatory discharge, alleging that he was terminated for filing a workers' compensation claim. See Tex. Lab. Code Ann. §§ 451.001-.003 (West 2006). TPWD filed a plea to the jurisdiction, which the trial court denied. In this interlocutory appeal, TPWD argues that the trial court erred in denying

Four days after Angelo Dahlia, a detective in the City of Burbank Police Department, disclosed the alleged use of abusive interrogation tactics by his colleagues to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, he was placed on administrative leave by Chief of Police Tim Stehr. That decision prompted Dahlia to file a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit against Stehr and lieutenants, sergeants, and a detective of the

Patricia A. Keller appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of her former employer, Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. (Crown or the Company), in her suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-2 & e-5, and the Equal Pay Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d) (EPA). Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm.

Background

Carly Cooter sued Angeles National Golf Club on a wrongful termination, retaliation, intentional infliction of emotional distresss, hostile work environment, sex discrimination, breach of contract and various labor law violation theories claiming that she faced retaliation after reporting that a customer fondled her.

The defenses asserted by Defendant are not available.

Retired Detective Sgt. 1st Class Brian Royster, age 48, sued the New Jersey State Police and Superintendent Rick Fluentes on civil rights and retaliation theories claiming that he was retaliated against after complaining the division failed to appropriately investigate claims such as racial discrimination and sexual harassment.

The defenses asserted by Defendants are not available.

Appellant Jamie Lichtenstein alleges that her employer, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC),1 terminated her employment in violation of the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq. The District Court granted summary judgment to UPMC on Lichtenstein‘s retaliation and interference claims. Lichtenstein‘s challenge to the District Court‘s decision requires us

This appeal requires us to resolve a question of first impression at the federal appellate level: Does the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §§ 701-796l, entitle a plaintiff to relief when retaliation for his complaints about disability discrimination is a motivating factor in, but not the but-for cause of, an adverse employment action? We answer this question in the negative. Because the c

Plaintiff-Appellant Rebecca Gonzalez (“Relator�) brought a qui tam action under the False Claims Act (“FCA�), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., against Defendants-Appellees Fresenius Medical Care North America, Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., Bio-Medical Applications of Texas, Inc. (collectively, “Fresenius�), and Alfonzo Chavez, M.D. Relator also brought retaliation claims against Fre

Toni Bone appeals the district court’s grant 1 of summary judgment in favor of her employer, G4S Youth Services, LLC (“G4S�), and her supervisor, Todd Speight, on Bone’s claims that they terminated her employment based on her race, age, and use of family medical leave. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

G4S began operating the Alexander Juvenile Assessment

Brad Wellenbrock sued Kennewick Irrigation District on a wrongful termination theory claiming that he was fire in retaliation for being a whistleblower.

Martha Palma sued Rite Aid on a wrongful termination theory claiming that she was firmed months after being diagnosed with a "non-work related serious disability in 2010. She asserted claims based on disability discrimination, retaliation for complaining of discrimination, harassment and failure to engage in the interactive process.

Plaintiff claimed that she could do the job but Rite Ai

Appellants Paul J. Cameron, Paul T. Ferris, Paul M. Gleason, and Kenneth W. Rosenthal are former directory-advertising sales representatives in the Premise Sales unit of appellee Idearc Media Corporation ("Idearc"). Each was discharged in July 2007. Idearc says they were let go for poor performance; the employees allege that the terminations were motivated by age discrimination and a desire to neg

In this employment discrimination suit, Ousman Cham alleges that the defendant, Station Operators, discriminated against him on the basis of race and national origin, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and retaliated against him for taking medical leave, in violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.

Phyllis Shanklin sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (TCHRA) for terminating her employment, bringing claims of discrimination based on race and sex, as well as on retaliation for raising the discrimination claims. See TEX. LAB. CODE ANN. §§ 21.051, 21.055, 21.254 (West 2006). The trial court granted the TDCJ’s motion for summary

Shedrick Chandler sued his former employer, CSC Applied Technologies, LLC (“CSC�), for race discrimination and retaliation under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (“TCHRA�). CSC moved for both traditional and no- evidence summary judgment and raised numerous objections to Chandler’s summary judgment evidence. The trial court sustained seventy-four of CSC’s objections and ultimat

Samuel Milligan, then a freshman at Southern Illinois University (“SIU�), had three uncomfortable encounters with Dr. Cal Meyers— a professor emeritus at, and substantial donor to, SIU— in which Meyers touched Milligan inappropriately and complimented him on what Meyers believed to be his feminine features. Milligan sued SIU under Title VII and Title IX for creating a hostile work and educ

Plaintiff-Appellant, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOCâ€�), on behalf of Jessica Chrysler (“Employeeâ€�), appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee, The Picture People (“Employerâ€�). See Order Granting Summary Judgment, EEOC v. Picture People, Inc., No. 09-cv-02315-PAB-CBS, 2011 WL 1754522 (D. Colo. May 9, 2011) (hereinafter â€

Plaintiff-Appellant Elizabeth A. Bertsch appeals from the grant of summary judgment in favor of her former employer, Defendant-Appellee Overstock.com, on her hostile work environment and retaliation claims, and appeals the denial of leave to amend to add a disparate-treatment claim, all under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §2000e-e17. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and