This appeal presents the question of whether an injury suffered by appellant at the hands of a third party was “directed against [him] in the course of” his employment. John Doe, appellant, appeals from the decision of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City that reversed an award of benefits made by the Workers’ Compensation Commission. In this workers’ compensation case, appellant raises tw

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge. For the better part of a decade, Claudine Bhatti has been a dental hygienist at Boston University's Dental Health Center. She claims that a series of supervisors at the Center subjected her to unpaid work hours because she is black and then to selective discipline and other malfeasance in retaliation for questioning her unpaid hours. On the University's Footnote motion fo

Plaintiff-appellant Sandra Rojas (“Rojas”) appeals from a judgment entered October 6, 2010, granting summary judgment in favor of defendants-appellees the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester (“the Diocese”), the Pastoral Center of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, and Pastor Peter Enyan-Boadu (“Enyan-Boadu” or “Father Peter”) (jointly, “defendants”) on her claims of sex

Caleb Sturge was terminated for cause from his employment with Northwest Airlines, Inc., shortly after he was arrested for possession of marijuana. At the same time, Sturge had pending with Northwest a request for disability retirement benefits. Northwest later granted Sturge’s request, but he was ineligible for certain retirement benefits as a result of the termination. Sturge sued Northwest, c

The trial court in this case ruled that under Washington courts' application of Frye v. United States, 54 App. D.C. 46, 293 F. 1013 (1923), there must be general acceptance in the relevant scientific community that a particular type of in utero toxic exposure can cause a particular type of birth defect before expert testimony on causation is admissible. We disagree. We hold that the Frye tes

Alan Parsons, Appellee, and the Training Chief for the El Paso Fire Department (fire department), filed suit against the City of El Paso, Appellant, for violations of the Texas Whistleblower Act. Tex. Gov't Code Ann. § 554.002 (West 2004). The trial court rendered judgment on the jury's verdict in favor of Chief Parsons and awarded to him attorneys' fees among other sums. The City appeals asserti

Only seven months after Freedom Bank recruited Belinda Egan to serve as one of its vice presidents, the bank fired her. She had no performance issues, no attendance problems, and no complaints against her. What she did have, though, was dinner shortly after she began with a member of the bank’s board of directors.

The board member told her the fantasies he had about her, and she declined

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988, we hold that a successful civil rights plaintiff may recover a reasonable attorney’s fee for legal services performed by her attorney-spouse.

BACKGROUND1

Rebecca Rickley filed this federal civil rights action against the County of Los Angeles and individual County employees (collectively, the “County”), alleging violations of her constitutional ri

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988, we hold that a successful civil rights plaintiff may recover a reasonable attorney’s fee for legal services performed by her attorney-spouse.

BACKGROUND1

Rebecca Rickley filed this federal civil rights action against the County of Los Angeles and individual County employees (collectively, the “County”), alleging violations of her constitutional ri

Plaintiff Shawn P. Blazier appeals from a district court order dismissing this civil rights action. Blazier sued Utah County and deputy county attorney Curtis L. Larson, claiming they violated his constitutional rights in connection with an aborted prosecution under Utah Code Ann. § 76-8-508.3 (“Retaliation against a witness, victim or informant”). We review the legal grounds for dismissal de

Plaintiff-Appellant Frances Carner, a former employee of Defendant- Appellee Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, d/b/a BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana, brought a lawsuit against BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana alleging both federal and state claims, including retaliation, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge. Carner appeals the district court’s grant of BlueCross Bl

Before the court is the interlocutory appeal of Defendants-Appellants Rolando Aguilar, Ruben Cortez, Jr., Joe Colunga, and Rick Zayas (collectively, “Appellants”) from the district court’s denial of summary judgment. Appellants, all members of the Brownsville Independent School District (“BISD”) Board of Trustees (“Board”), argue that the district court should have granted their moti

Jean-Baptiste Edmond appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the University of Miami (“University”), in Edmond’s suit alleging race and national origin discrimination, retaliation, and hostile work environment, brought pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1966, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992 (“FCRA”), Fla. Stat. § 760. Edmond

In the case at bar, this Court granted both a petition and cross-petition for a writ of certiorari to address two issues of public importance: (1) the extent to which the First Amendment’s “ministerial exception” is applicable to a sixteen count civil action asserted against a church by a former employee who claims that she was the victim of sexual harassment and employment discrimination; a

22 Defendants-appellants, Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group, Inc. (d/b/a Park Avenue
23 Restaurant), and Fourth Walls Restaurant LLC (d/b/a Park Avenue Restaurant) (collectively, “Park
24 Avenue”) appeal from a January 29, 2010, Order of the United States District Court for the
25 Southern District of New York (Cedarbaum, J.) granting a motion for class certification made,
26

John Doe, a former altar boy, filed suit against Msgr. Thomas Rowland, the supervisory priest, and The Catholic Diocese of El Paso. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the Appellees. Because Doe’s causes of actions are barred by limitations, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

John Doe was born on January 4, 1948. When he was a

2 Claimant seeks review of a decision by the Employment Appeals Board
3 (EAB) that she was not entitled to unemployment benefits because she voluntarily left
4 work without good cause. ORS 657.176(2)(c). She raises several assignments of error,
5 all but one of which we reject without discussion. We write only to address claimant's
6 eighth assignment of error in which she contends

Accretive is a Chicago-based consulting firm that provides billing, collections, and other revenue-cycle services to hospitals around the country. O’Leary joined Accretive as a vice-president in February 2005, when the company was less than two years old. O’Leary was assigned to oversee revenue-cycle operations at four Michigan hospitals. He initially reported to executive vicepresident Etienn

Ellis Ray Barber sued C1 Truck Driver Training, LLC, C & S Acquisition, Inc., and Driver Holdings, LLC (“C1”). He asserts racial discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to 2000e-17) and the Arkansas Civil Rights Act (Ark. Code Ann. §§ 16-123- 101 to -108) (“ACRA”). The district court granted C1’2 s motion for summar

Plaintiff Timothy Cronin brought this case for First Amendment retaliation under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Specifically, Cronin alleged his First Amendment rights were violated when defendant Christopher St. Lawrence, the Town Supervisor of Ramapo, New York, retaliated against him for engaging in conduct protected by the First Amendment by causing Cronin to be constructively terminated from his job as a to

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge. Robert Dickerson is a parttime janitorial custodian for a community college in Illinois and suffers from a mental disability. He brought this suit against his employer, alleging that he was discriminated against because of his disability in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

In August of 2007 Dickerson was a part-time janitor.

He applied for fu

Herman Nelson, Joel Decatur, Andre Lawson and Ernest Carter were employed by the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”). In 2007, they filed a six-count employment discrimination suit against DHS.1 After the district court granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss two of the counts, DHS failed to answer the complaint, apparently due to an oversight. In May 2009, the plaintiffs moved for a v

Donald Trump, the plaintiff in a suit for defamation, appeals from a Law Division order granting summary judgment to defendants, Timothy O'Brien, the author of TrumpNation, The Art of Being The Donald, and his publishers, Time Warner Book Group, Inc. and Warner Books, Inc.1 On appeal, Trump contends that he produced clear and convincing evidence of actual malice on the part of O'Brien and that iss

¶1 We granted the petition for writ of certiorari of Plaintiff/Appellee Lumber 2, Inc. (Lumber 2) to consider an issue of first impression in this Court: whether Lumber 2, as a retailer and purchaser of merchandise intended for resale in its business, is a "consumer" for purposes of the Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act, (OCPA), 15 O.S. 2003 §§751-764.1.1 We answer in the negative.

PROCED

Rosalind Brooks appeals the dismissal of her action against a former employer alleging race, sex, and age discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII. The district court concluded Brooks has not filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) within 300 days of her termination, as required to exhaust her claim, see 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(e)(1), a