A towing ordinance of the City of Waukegan generated several rallies or marches in opposition. While dealing with protestors, City officials barred a citizen from speaking at a city council meeting and imposed outdoor assembly permit and fee requirements. Several individuals then sued the City, its mayor, and its police chief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their First Amendment ri

This is an appeal from a summary judgment dismissing a complaint by an engineering professor who alleged that Idaho State University had retaliated against him because of his comments criticizing the administration that had been published in a local newspaper over several years and that the University had breached his employment contract. We affirm the summary judgment, but remand for determinatio

Appellant Mary Schroeder (“Schroeder”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment for Appellees Greater New Orleans Federal Credit Union (“GNOFCU”) and Cumis Insurance Society (“Cumis”).

The district court found that GNOFCU did not violate either the Federal Credit Union Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1790b, or LA. REV. STAT. ANN. § 23:967(A) by terminating Schroeder’s emp

Geneva Colbert appeals from the county court’s judgment favoring Langwick Senior Residences in Langwick’s forcible detainer action against Colbert.1 In its judgment, the trial court determined that Langwick was entitled to possession of the premises in question and ordered Colbert to pay all court costs. In three issues, Colbert contends that the trial court erred in its judgment because (1) t

Ernest T. Rossiello & Associates, P.C. successfully represented plaintiff Danielle Pickett in a Title VII retaliation suit against her employer, defendant Sheridan Health Care Center (“Sheridan”). The jury awarded $65,000 in damages to Pickett, and her attorneys then sought to recover attorneys’ fees in the amount of $131,665.88. The district court granted plaintiff’s fee request in part a

Jennifer Keeton was enrolled in the Counselor Education Program at Augusta State University (ASU), a Georgia state school, seeking to obtain her master’s degree in school counseling. After Keeton completed her first year in the program, ASU’s officials asked her to participate in a remediation plan addressing what the faculty perceived as deficiencies in her “ability to be a multiculturally

The last opinion we issued in this case, Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 392 F. App’x 817 (11th Cir. 2010) (Ash IV), was the fourth one in a series from this Court. See Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 31 F. App’x 938 (11th Cir. 2002) (Ash I); Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 129 F. App’x 529 (11th Cir. 2005) (Ash II), vacated, 546 U.S. 454, 126 S. Ct. 1195 (2006), reinstated, Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 190 F. A

¶1 Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr., was charged, conjointly with Ronald Dwayne Thompson and Kenneth Dominick Johnson, with three counts of first degree murder, with alternative theories of malice or felony murder, in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2004, § 701.7(A) and (B), and one count of first degree burglary, in violation of 21 O.S. 2001, § 1431, in Tulsa County District Court case number CF-2005-3904

Eltayeb Abuelyaman, an Arab Muslim, served as an associate professor at Illinois State University’s School of Information Technology from 2001 to 2006. Abuelyaman’s performance record was consistently sub-par, and he frequently sparred with policy decisions made by his supervisor. In March 2006, Abuelyaman was informed that his contract would not be renewed for the 2007-2008 school year. Abuel

James McKelvey, an Army veteran, lost his right hand and suffered other serious injuries trying to defuse a roadside bomb in Iraq. Without question, the Nation owes him considerable gratitude and respect for his service and sacrifice. The more difficult question is whether it also owes him nearly $4.4 million in front pay because, upon returning home and securing a civilian job with the Army, he f

We are asked to review a jury verdict in favor of the Petitioner, Julia M. Taylor, an African American female, in a suit in which she alleged both sexual discrimination and retaliatory termination against Giant of Maryland LLC, Respondent.1 The focal point of our review of the discrimination verdict is the application of “comparator evidence”2 in the context of Ms. Taylor’s claim of disparat

Appellant Pete Villegas appeals the trial court’s decision to grant Del Mar College’s (Del Mar) plea to the jurisdiction in an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by Villegas against Del Mar. The trial court determined it lacked subject matter jurisdiction to hear the matter and ordered dismissal. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

For more than a decade, Villegas has been an adjunct

This is a wrongful discharge case. Lynn A. Morrison was terminated from her job as a medical sales representative by her employer, B. Braun Medical Inc. Morrison filed a complaint alleging that B. Braun had wrongfully discharged her in violation of Michigan’s public policy because of her refusal to unlawfully promote non-approved uses of medical products and to violate antikickback laws. The cas

This matter comes before us on cross-appeals from the District Court’s ruling on a petition for interim injunctive relief sought by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) pursuant to § 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), 29 U.S.C. § 160(j). For nearly forty years, since Eisenberg ex rel. N.L.R.B. v. Hartz Mountain Corp., 519 F.2d 138 (3d Cir. 1975), we have held t

Plaintiffs were employed as laborers by James Harmeyer, Inc. d/b/a Tyler Homes (Tyler Homes). After their employment was terminated on May 19, 2008, plaintiffs filed suit seeking damages and alleging Tyler Homes fired them on the basis of race or in retaliation for having made previous complaints to James Harmeyer about the racially derogatory treatment they received from their supervisor. Tyler H

David Teigen and Timothy Bennett (collectively, "Plaintiffs") filed suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against Nolin Renfrow, former Director of Prisons for the Colorado Department of Corrections ("DOC"); Madline SaBell, former Director of the Human Resource Office of the DOC; and Joe Ortiz, Executive Director of the DOC (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs also named Ortiz and Gary Golder, A

Plaintiff Ron Westmoreland, a firefighter, appeals from the entry of summary judgment in favor of his employer, the City of Bay Village and its Mayor Deborah L. Sutherland, with respect to his claim that he was unlawfully disciplined in retaliation for having exercised his First Amendment rights. See 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court found that plaintiff’s speech was not protected by the Fir

Plaintiff-Appellant William Sanford appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees Main Street Baptist Church Manor, Inc. (“the Manor”) and Southeastern Management Center, Inc. (“Southeastern”) on his sexual-harassment and retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Kentucky Civil Rights Act (“KCRA”). The distric

John K. Hicks appeals the district court’s granting summary judgment to Concorde Career College (Concorde). We affirm.

Hicks filed a complaint against his former employer, Concorde Career College (“Concorde”), alleging that it discriminated against him based on his race and gender, created a hostile work environment, and retaliated against him for filing a complaint with the Equal Emp

1 KEARSE, Circuit Judge:
2 Plaintiff Roberta Schwartz appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court
3 for the Southern District of New York, William H. Pauley III, Judge, denying her petition to vacate
4 an arbitration decision that rejected her claims asserting principally that defendant Merrill Lynch &
5 Co, Inc. ("Merrill Lynch" or the "Firm"), her employer, d

Samone Redd’s probationary employment with the Cook County Department of Corrections ended with her resignation on October 31, 2007.

Redd had been a witness in a criminal investigation conducted by Detective John Dougherty of the City of Chicago Police Department. She has sued Dougherty, alleging that when she refused to lie to further the ends of that investigation, he tortiously interfe

Samone Redd’s probationary employment with the Cook County Department of Corrections ended with her resignation on October 31, 2007. Redd had been a witness in a criminal investigation conducted by Detective John Dougherty of the City of Chicago Police Department. She has sued Dougherty, alleging that when she refused to lie to further the ends of that investigation, he tortiously interfered wi

Christine Hines originally brought this action in Massachusetts state court against the State Room, Inc., where she formerly was employed. In the amended complaint, which was before the district court following removal, Ms. Hines and her coplaintiffs sought unpaid overtime wages that they claimed were due under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219, and related

The Tennessee Department of Mental Health operates five regional mental health institutes in Tennessee. The Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute (“MTMHI”) is a facility in Nashville with the capacity to serve 245 patients. All of MTMHI’s patients are involuntarily admitted, which means they have been found to “pose[ ] an immediate substantial likelihood of serious harm . . . because of

In this civil rights suit, appellants allege that a pattern of cronyism and nepotism in the employment decisions of the Boston Fire Department ("BFD" or "Department") rose to the level of actionable political discrimination in violation of the First Amendment. Appellants Denise Barry, Elizabeth Golden, Patricia McDonough, Elaine Mesiti, Lila Brown, Mary Kane and Judith Kelley are civilian employee