A group of pseudonymous plaintiffs, referring to themselves as Does 1 through 9, brought this action against the Elmbrook School District (“the District”) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. They alleged that the District’s practice of holding high school graduation ceremonies and related events at a Christian church rented by the District for the occas

Autumn Eaton sued her employer, the Indiana Department of Corrections, Pendleton Juvenile Corrections Facility (“DOC”), under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2, alleging that DOC discriminated against her on the basis of gender when it terminated her employment.

The district court granted summary judgment in favor of DOC, and Eaton’s appeal followed. On a

[¶1] In this case, a jury has found, twice, that a Town Councilor exhibited discriminatory animus towards Mary Walsh because she had engaged in statutorily-protected conduct, and that this discriminatory animus was a cause or a motivating factor for the Millinocket Town Council’s decision to eliminate Mary Walsh’s position and thus terminate her employment with the Town. Walsh contends that d

Jennifer Frensley appeals the summary judgment dismissal of her quid pro quo sexual harassment suit against her former employer, North Mississippi Medical Center (NMMC), and supervisor, Michael Denham, after her position as the nurse manager of the ICU was eliminated and NMMC failed to hire her as the nurse manager in one of two replacement units. We agree with the district court that the summary

Ellen Quinn sued her employer, St. Louis County, under the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), Minn. Stat. §§ 363A.01-.43, and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-54, and asserted other state common law claims including breach of employment contract. Quinn appeals the dismissal of her breach of contract claim with prejudice, the denials of her motions for leave to amend her c

The plaintiffs appeal adverse decisions below relating to their one-time employer Motorola’s alleged violation of their rights under the proscriptive anti-discrimination and anti-retaliation provisions of § 2615 of the Family and Medical Leave Act (the “FMLA”). James Breneisen appeals the district court’s dismissal of his claim based on a determination that he was not eligible for recover

Plaintiff-Appellant Marcia Bryson appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Defendants-Appellees Middlefield Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. (the “Department”) and Scott Anderson (together, “Defendants”), on her claims of sexual harassment and retaliation brought pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, Bryson appeals the district court’s con

Plaintiffs-Appellants Vivian Skovgard (Skovgard) and Percy Gros, Jr. (Gros) (collectively, plaintiffs) are long-time anti-abortion advocates, whose activities outside of the Women’s Med + Center (the Center), an abortion clinic in Kettering, Ohio, include counseling, praying, picketing, and distributing literature. On March 2, 2007, Alex Kaminski (Kaminski), the Center’s security guard, called

Kenneth W. Nunley challenges the district court’s grant of a motion for summary judgment in favor of Defendant City of Waco. For the reasons stated herein, we affirm the ruling of the district court.

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Plaintiff Kenneth Nunley has been an employee of the City of Waco (“the City”) since May 1994, during which time several disputes occurred, all of which are of relevance to the p

Appellant Onion Creek Luxury Apartments (Onion Creek), brought a forcible-detainer action seeking possession of the apartment in which appellee Rebecca Powell (Powell) lives, (1) alleging that she failed to timely pay her rent for September 2010. See Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 24.002 (West 2000). Following a trial de novo, the county court at law rendered a take-nothing judgment against Onion Creek a

Bringing suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Ginger James and Deborah Tennison (together, the plaintiffs) alleged defendants’ termination of their employment with the Prue, Oklahoma, public school district (the District) violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. They appeal from a summary judgment rejecting their claims, in which the district court determined (1) their pre-termination hear

Beverly Healthcare, LLC (“Beverly”), employed Victoria Serednyj as an Activity Director in Beverly’s Golden Living nursing home in Valparaiso, Indiana, from August 2006 to March 2007. In early January 2007, Serednyj learned she was pregnant, and, at the end of February 2007, she began to experience pregnancy-related complications. Her doctor placed her on bed rest for two weeks, and, at the

Judy Chou Chiung-Yu Wang (“Wang”) appeals the district court’s dismissal of her claims against her former employer, Prudential Life Insurance Company and affiliated entities (collectively, “Prudential”), and several Prudential employees. On appeal, Wang argues that the district court erred by: (1) failing to convert the defendants’ motion to dismiss into a motion for summary judgment;

Barry Nolan, a regional television personality, was discharged from his employment with The Comcast Network, LLC ("Comcast") after he publicly protested the selection of political commentator Bill O'Reilly for a prestigious broadcasting award. In response to this discharge, Nolan filed in the Massachusetts Superior Court a claim of speech-motivated retaliation under the Massachusetts Civil Rights

Now before us are four appeals in a case brought by Dr. Sagun Tuli, a female neurosurgeon, against her employer Brigham and Women's Hospital ("the Hospital") and her former co-worker and supervisor Dr. Arthur Day. The first appeal was by the Hospital from a preliminary injunction sought and obtained by Tuli; the three more recent appeals followed a jury verdict awarding Tuli damages against the de

After 19 weeks of medical leave, long-time employee Katrina L. Rogers returned to her job with the County of Los Angeles, only to learn that she was being transferred to another position in another department. She sued the County for violation of the California Family Rights Act of 1993 (CFRA) (Gov. Code, § 12945.2). Her claim had two components: (1) that the County interfered with her CFRA right

Julie Delgado-O'Neil appeals the district court's1 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) dismissal of her retaliation claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Minneapolis and City Attorney Susan Segal in her individual capacity; the court's later grant of summary judgment in favor of the City (and denial of Delgado- O'Neil's motion for partial summary judgment) on Delgado-O'Neil's rem

Jane Porter appeals from the district court’s2 orders granting summary judgment in favor of the City of Lake Lotawana and its mayor, Art Van Hook, and the subsequent dismissal of her wrongful termination and retaliation claims. On 1The Honorable Brian S. Miller, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, sitting by designation.

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Jane Porter worked for

Donald Parker sued his employer Valerus Compression Services, LP for wrongful termination and retaliation based on his filing of a workers’ compensation claim, among other grounds. Valerus denied Parker’s allegations and asserted that it terminated him in accordance with its absentee policy after he spent eight months on medical leave. Valerus filed traditional and no-evidence motions for su

Stephen Barth obtained a judgment awarding damages and attorney’s fees against the University of Houston (“University”) based on a jury’s finding that the University, Barth’s employer, had violated the Texas Whistleblower Act.[1] On original submission, we held that the University had waived its liability challenge to the judgment because it had failed to dispute all bases on which the

Plaintiff-Appellant A Society Without a Name, For People Without A Home Millennium Future-Present (ASWAN) is an unincorporated association made up of homeless and formerly homeless people that advocates for their rights. On February 17, 2009, ASWAN sued defendants-appellees Commonwealth of Virginia, doing business as Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), City of Richmond (City), Homeward, a Virg

This employment discrimination case presents a threshold question: Was plaintiff-appellant Caroline DeLia the defendant's employee? The district court answered in the negative and granted summary judgment to defendant-appellee Verizon Communications, Inc. on DeLia's state and federal statutory claims. The court also granted summary judgment to Verizon on various common law claims. After careful re

Plaintiff-appellant Darlene W. Low, an employee of the Southwestern Power Administration, a division within the United States Department of Energy, filed a complaint against Steven Chu, Secretary of the Department, asserting a total of five claims: three retaliation claims and one hostile work environment claim, all pursuant to Title VII, and one claim brought under the Age Discrimination in Emplo

Plaintiff–Appellant Dessie Cherry commenced this lawsuit against her former employer, CCA Properties of America, L.L.C., claiming that she was terminated because of her race, sex, and age, and in retaliation for making complaints about discriminatory treatment she received, and that she had been subjected to a hostile work environment while employed. Cherry appeals the United States Court of App

Di Ann Sanchez filed suit against her former employer, alleging discrimination and retaliation in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, and the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act. The district court granted summary judgment dismissing the suit, finding the evidence from the defendant of nondiscriminatory reasons for her termination to be uncontested. We